cooking with no power

**montana** · 11-17-2021, 06:58 AM

**montana** · 11-17-2021, 07:04 AM

**Peter1469** · 11-17-2021, 07:05 AM

I have a propane stove.

**Cotton1** · 11-17-2021, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Peter1469

I have a propane stove.

**carolina73** · 11-17-2021, 09:24 AM

I played around with simple solar ovens just after watching a Youtube video. I just used an old small styrofoam cooler, tinfoil and a glass plate that I saved from a old scanner. It actually worked well and I could boils a cup of water but it had two issues. The sun moves and the those dang clouds. But for something that took 2 minutes to build, I'll have to play with it again post retirement. I'll have to find a cheap fresnel lens.

But the simple cinder brick stoves are something anyone can make and use

**stjames1_53** · 11-17-2021, 09:33 AM

I watched a video where a guy was freezing water in a 5 gal buckets.
The premise is centered around using a homemade parabolic shielded, with a pipe full of ammonia in it's center, then piping it into a ground chamber. Cover the shield and the ammonia returns to the pipe and PRESTO, Ice!!!!
I bought his book.
I have baked bread in a homemade solar chamber.

**stjames1_53** · 11-17-2021, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by carolina73

I played around with simple solar ovens just after watching a Youtube video. I just used an old small styrofoam cooler, tinfoil and a glass plate that I saved from a old scanner. It actually worked well and I could boils a cup of water but it had two issues. The sun moves and the those dang clouds. But for something that took 2 minutes to build, I'll have to play with it again post retirement. I'll have to find a cheap fresnel lens.

But the simple cinder brick stoves are something anyone can make and use

look for discarded big screen TV's. The older models with projectors have a such a lens.
I have twenty or so of them, and on a good day, I can melt blacktop paving

**carolina73** · 11-17-2021, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by stjames1_53

I watched a video where a guy was freezing water in a 5 gal buckets.
The premise is centered around using a homemade parabolic shielded, with a pipe full of ammonia in it's center, then piping it into a ground chamber. Cover the shield and the ammonia returns to the pipe and PRESTO, Ice!!!!
I bought his book.
I have baked bread in a homemade solar chamber.

The result was?
Was it doughy in the middle?

**donttread** · 12-01-2021, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by Peter1469

I have a propane stove.

Gas grill with two or three tanks, no wood stove anymore though but fireplace. I've even got camping contrapitions I could use to cook on it. Heat would be our biggest concern

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