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I particularly like the fact that they are also using “hotbox” technology too, heating the pot of food in the solar cooker and then placing it in an insulated container for slow cooking on the retained heat. Back in the 19th century, hotbox slow cookers used hay as an insulator.

One Earth Designs is not working in the areas you are now. Our main foci are energy, water, infrastructure, and education across the western China and northern India areas with a diverse group of peoples and communities, though or geographic scope is limited by financial constraints at the moment. We’ve received interest from people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and other countries–and we hope to reach them soon!

These people have lived for hundreds of years in this way…and instead I might suggest that the Big Mac is actually rather disgusting (you don’t even know where it comes from…). But, come back in the winter when it is -20C all day long, plus wind chill. It’s a great time for developing a taste for yak butter tea (little else grows around here, and when people offer you more than what they really have, it’s best to show your appreciation despite your gut’s true reaction).

I’m surprised to hear that “she has adapted hers by putting her pot into a plastic bag” because the plastic bag should be essential and standard issue. It causes a greenhouse effect around that pot whereas otherwise the heat is just blown away from the pot by the breeze.

Oven bags are the usual recommendation but sourcing these in rural Africa is a challenge (!). I have heard that it can be done with thin white supermarket poly bags but because they melt easily you have to keep them away from the pot with a wire frame or similar.

Sitting the pot on three small stones gives an insulating air-gap underneath which also increases the pot temperature.

just my 2pnth

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