Solar cooking or Haybox cooking.

[pampam]

Has anyone ever done any of this type of cooking ?

Haybox is like a pioneers slow cooker. A stew, soup or whatever was heated to boiling and as the wagon was loaded up for the days journey the pot was buried in a box of hay with sometimes a hot flat rock on the bottom. At nightfall, camp had to be made, but supper was ready.

During the depression, and WW2 when things were rationed, and cooking fuel was at a premium, it was revived. They would use their box at night to make the next mornings hot breakfast cereal. Today they make haybox cookers using shredded paper, wool, old sleeping bags or whatever they have for insulation. Also now people are getting into solar cooking. I would like to try these things too, but I'd like some recipes or ideas and experiences of others of what to do, or not do. Did you actually save money, or was it just a something you tried and then forgot about?

 

[KennesawNemo]

Has anyone ever done any of this type of cooking ?

Haybox is like a pioneers slow cooker. A stew, soup or whatever was heated to boiling and as the wagon was loaded up for the days journey the pot was buried in a box of hay with sometimes a hot flat rock on the bottom. At nightfall, camp had to be made, but supper was ready.

During the depression, and WW2 when things were rationed, and cooking fuel was at a premium, it was revived. They would use their box at night to make the next mornings hot breakfast cereal. Today they make haybox cookers using shredded paper, wool, old sleeping bags or whatever they have for insulation. Also now people are getting into solar cooking. I would like to try these things too, but I'd like some recipes or ideas and experiences of others of what to do, or not do. Did you actually save money, or was it just a something you tried and then forgot about?

My mom has something similar. It was like a pot in a pot. You boil your food on the stove in the stainless steel inner pot and then put the inner pot into the out-pot, which is porcelain. It'll stay hot for hours and keep the food cooking.

My mom usually makes soup or porridge with it. Sometimes she makes stews. Very delicious.

 

[Shanna-like-Banana]

We use them in Girl Scouts from time to time, mostly only when we're camping.

Our troop built our own box oven and we only cook things in it like muffins, brownies, etc. We only uses mixes that are the add water. We never cook anything in it that ppl could possibly get sick from eating from not being cooked enough at the right temp ( such as we never use anything that requires eggs)

 

[Jedana]

I'm running our scout district's daycamp this year, and we are doing an overnighter for the Webelos. They get to cook a hot dog in a solar box for dinner.