We set up the solar cooker today. 200 euros worth of lean, green, carbon-free cooking. Matt estimated that a couple of years of cooking will see it pay for itself, versus the gas cooker, and when Russia cuts the gas supply off we won’t have to worry.
First we had to clear the ground of tiles and weeds, and more weeds, and all the weed roots, and then all the roots we didn’t see the first time. 6 wheelbarrows of gravel smoothed the surface off and then we just had to prise the kittens away from their reflections and put it into place.
The first kettle boiled in twenty minutes and there’s another one on as I write, which seems to be going quicker as we get better at angling the beam. Cooking does take a bit longer, and although a sheet of metal laid in the beam began to buckle and melt, when it’s warming a large pot the whole thing won’t get quite as hot as it would on a hob, but it’s great as a slow cooker. Things take a little longer, maybe you have to plan ahead a bit more, but a free replacement for your gas cooker sounds like the future to me.
Tabua chain-saw massacre
Just cutting down an olive tree.
Who the hell is that?
Putting on the first kettle.
The angle is adjusted to hit the spot.
Free cooking for life.
Excellent .. and what an upgrade on the homemade one of last year …..! (which cost nothing to make and worked… ) x
.. is the ginger kitty cat Mr Biggs’s boy from last year ?
no, that’s yet another tabitha-biggs kitten born this easter (and now gone to live with anita). this time we WILL catch her and get her spayed before she turns up again next year to give birth to more!