Yesterday was our first experiment with solar cooking. We made our cooker out of cardboard and tinfoil. Then set it out in the sun around 3pm. We decided to keep it simple for our first try and made macaroni and veggies. We actually didn't have much faith that this would work, but shazamm!!!! It worked!! Actually, it was overcooked and the noodles were mush, but the veggies were good.
It only took an hour to cook everything-and done without any fuel source, only by the heat of the sun! We were amazed!
Even though we had researched this whole solar cooking idea on the web and YouTube, we didn't really know if it would work.
But now we are excited about it and are going to try cooking some MEAT-argh-argh!!
This has so much potential for the people of Ethiopia! Women and children spend a large part of their day gathering up wood for their cooking fires. Not only does it prevent them from doing other important things (like going to school or a job) but it depletes an already scarce resource-wood. And in some parts of Africa, it has become dangerous for the women-because they are having to range farther and deeper out into the bush, and many of them are being raped and murdered.
We hope to make many solar cookers and bring them to Ethiopia and show the women how they could use these at least some of the time for their daily cooking. If you would like more info about these Cookit solar cookers go to You Tube and type in "solar cooking' We will post exciting video of Teresa cooking MEAT next week, but until then...bon apetit!!
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