[Greenbuilding] While we're on Solar....any experience with a solar cooker?

[Racheli Gai]

Lynelle,
I have a Sun Oven also.  I use it regularly, and like it a lot.  I  
have cooked chicken, as well as slow roasted meats.  After a long,  
slow, cooking food tastes
simply delicious, and if the sun disappeared on you, you can always  
stick the food in a conventional oven to finish the cooking.  I have  
an electric stove and solar panels,
so cooking indoors is solar, too.
The EWG study also called attention to the fact that responsible  
grazing contributes to reviving bee populations.  In other words: One  
needs to  look at issues
in a larger context, not just the matter of producing carbon, as well  
as look at what's available and worthy of support locally.   For  
example, if you help responsible ranching
exist and thereby avoid conversion of land into more sub-divisions,  
you  might be doing some good, even if eating meat might be more  
costly in some ways than
eating something else.

Racheli.



On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:27 AM, sanjay jain wrote:

> >I have built enough this year and so am looking for a pre-made  
> solar cooker that will hopefully cook chicken and bake.
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> The larger carbon footprint saving would result from not eating  
> chicken. While chicken is better than lamb and beef, it's more than  
> 3 times worse than vegetarian foods. See: Recent Environmental  
> Working group's report graph at http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/meateaters/images/green_house_proteins.jpg
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> This Time article is worth reading: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/07/26/how-meat-and-dairy-are-hiking-your-carbon-footprint/
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> ~sanjay
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> From: Lynelle Hamilton <lynelle at lahamilton.com>
> To: Greenbuilding <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:48 AM
> Subject: [Greenbuilding] While we're on Solar....any experience with  
> a solar cooker?
>
> I have built enough this year and so am looking for a pre-made solar  
> cooker that will hopefully cook chicken and bake.  Any experience  
> out there with any of the pre-mades?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lynelle
> -- Effective immediately, please use the following e-mail address to  
> reach me: lynelle at lahamilton.com
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