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

Lynelle Hamilton lynelle at lahamilton.com
Sun Jul 31 17:13:25 CDT 2011


Points well taken.  My chicken is free range and raised without the 
chemical interventions that can be used. When I do eat beef (truth be 
told, I've actually lost the taste for it), it's grass fed. Ditto for lamb.

Everything is connected.....

Lynelle

On 31/07/2011 10:54 AM, Racheli Gai wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> This Time article is worth reading: 
>> http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/07/26/how-meat-and-dairy-are-hiking-your-carbon-footprint/
>>
>> ~sanjay
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Lynelle Hamilton <lynelle at lahamilton.com 
>> <mailto:lynelle at lahamilton.com>>
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>> *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
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