Green, clean *and* charitable
Or, straight pimpin, yo. Again.
There's a three minute vid that goes with this solar oven website that has some sobering statistics about deforestation and the 20 or 30 cigarette per day equivalent that is cooking over a fire in a hut. However, they had me at "solar crock pot." :D Yes, I discovered this in my search for Things Usable Without Power or the ongoing I'm Not A Doomsday Prepper (Just a FEMA's Running Late One) phase. Still, the environmental friendliness of this gizmo is quite impressive for anyone without the added wonderfulness of your US$135 going in part to fund supplying these ovens to less developed parts of the world.
If your pocketbook is not up to that level of charity, here's a vid on how to make your own for $5:
There's a three minute vid that goes with this solar oven website that has some sobering statistics about deforestation and the 20 or 30 cigarette per day equivalent that is cooking over a fire in a hut. However, they had me at "solar crock pot." :D Yes, I discovered this in my search for Things Usable Without Power or the ongoing I'm Not A Doomsday Prepper (Just a FEMA's Running Late One) phase. Still, the environmental friendliness of this gizmo is quite impressive for anyone without the added wonderfulness of your US$135 going in part to fund supplying these ovens to less developed parts of the world.
If your pocketbook is not up to that level of charity, here's a vid on how to make your own for $5:
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