Seven Generational Ruminations

The Sunny Side of Cooking - Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century author: Lisa Rayner asin: 098006080X binding: Spiral-bound

What if there was a year-round method of cooking that was low cost, powered by sunlight, non-polluting, and easy to do even in college dorms, apartment balconies and off-the-grid locations? There is: Solar Cooking.

Solar cooking is easy everywhere in the U.S., and as far north as Canada, and as far south as Australia. In a solar cooker you can do everything from simmering to poaching, steaming, sautéing, braising, baking, roasting, toasting, pan frying, grilling, canning, medical sterilization, and even making ice (at night!).

"The Sunny Side of Cooking" includes:

HotPot Simple Solar Cooker asin: B000PW9THS binding: Kitchen amazon price: $99.00 USD

This low-cost, high-performance solar oven can produce cooking temperatures with in an hour and be used for up to six hours, perfect for baked goods or slow-cooking stews. The Hot Pot's features include a 5.3 quart enameled steel pot. Respected institutions such as Florida Solar Energy Center and Energy Laboratories, Inc. tested and refined the product's design over a six-year period. Sales of the Hot Pot help subsidize the distribution of this device in developing countries to reduce deforestation and respiratory disease caused by traditional cooking methods. USA and Mexico.

Scott Resources SR-GS4702 Solar Oven asin: B001A41DBU binding: Toy amazon price: $51.98 USD

Sun Spot Solar Oven - Gain first-hand experience with solar radiation using this Solar Oven. Oven has reflective surfaces that concentrate heat radiation in the central chamber, resulting in temperatures up to 350 degrees. Teacher's Guide gives suggestions for classroom experiments. Grades 3-12

Sun BD Corp. Tulsi-Hybrid Solar Cooking Oven asin: B000EQFJPG binding: Misc. amazon price: $249.99 USD

One look at us, and youll see why the Tulsi-Hybrid is the #1 hybrid solar oven in America!

Deluxe Solar Cooking System asin: B0015XSTVI binding: Misc.

Our convenient, easy to use, low cost, Solar Cooking System is a great introduction to solar cooking. Cooks delicious, mouth watering foods; Fast like a grill. Cook your favorite foods like hotdogs, hamburgers, fish, etc. Safe around children. Only the food container gets hot. Thermometer shows food temperature, not cooker temperature. Cook in a pot, a pan or a microwave safe ziplock bag. Made in America: Our Solar Cooking System is more like a stove or grill than an oven. You cook on it, not in it.

Solar StoveTop Cooker : Pattern, Instructions, Recipes author: Jack Howell asin: 0962906972 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD

Imagine a solar cooker just like the grill on the top of your stove that when you focus it to the sun it will reach 650 degrees F within minutes and only weighs 3 pounds. It will hold a 15" frying pan for grilling sandwiches, frying chicken, poaching fish, or making pizza. It will hold a pot of water for steaming corn or vegtables, and a coffee pot for perking coffee. The Solar StoveTop Cooker is like moving your stove outside except it is lightweight and portable--you can take it anywhere. You don't have to plug it in and it's a lot more fun to use. The pattern makes it easy to build.

The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator author: Eben V. Fodor asin: 0865715440 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well-illustrated book includes:

Cooking With the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers author: Beth Halacy Dan Halacy asin: 0962906921 binding: Paperback list price: $9.95 USD amazon price: $9.95

Cooking with the sun shows how to harness the sun's energy in preparing food. It presents detailed plans, liberally illiustrated with line drawings and photos, for building solar ovens that can cook a 12 pound turkey in three hours, and a solar reflector "hot plate" that perks coffee and cooks steak, bacon and eggs, hot cakes and other stove-top meals. The oven will reach temperatures of 375 degrees F, and the "hot plate" 650 degrees F.

Solar Cooking: A Primer/Cookbook author: Harriet Kofalk asin: 1570670072 binding: Paperback list price: $8.95 USD amazon price: $8.95 USD

Harness the sun's power to cook your food! Here are more than three dozen recipes for everything from soup to baked goods that can all be cooked by the sun. Simple instructions and diagrams for making an inexpensive solar cooker are included.

Solar Cooking for Home and Camp author: Linda Frederick Yaffe asin: 0811734021 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $11.01 USD

Quickly toss together the ingredients for Cashew Curry, place it in the solar cooker, point the cooker to the midday sun, and head to work. You ll come home to a ready-to-eat hot meal. Solar cooking is a simple and easy way to prepare a meal without heating up the kitchen, simply by using the sun s heat.Perfect for dishes requiring delicate cooking like Cheese Strata and Solar Baked Custard, and fish cooks up moist. Eliminate parboiling and marinating--it s done all in one step.