Cardboard Boxes and Solar Cooking
Cardboard Box Outdoor Cooking
Knowing that both eating and cooking are adventures means that you must be willing to try new experiences refreshing scenery, new activities, and an entirely different flavor. What better way to experience the pleasure of cooking than to camp and get involved with the natural ambience forests and mountains can give you.
All you need are resources of fire and substitute cooking equipments, and you are one step closer to having a new cooking experience. For fire, you will need wood sticks and charcoal, and for alternative cooking materials, just prepare a cardboard box.
Yes, a cardboard made of ordinary paper can be your cooking buddy outdoors. If you are wondering how a mere cardboard box can aid in cooking, you must understand that through resourcefulness it has been discovered that a cardboard box is a perfect outdoor oven.
Keep in mind that in practicing the cardboard box oven outdoor cooking method you must first prepare the box that you will be using. The bottom of the cardboard box will be the top of the oven hence you are to cut off the boxes flaps to achieve a box with four sides and a straight bottom.
After cutting the flap, you will then cover the exterior and interior of your oven with foil. Foil has been known, and used, for years as the major material in steaming and cooking foods through grilling and roasting.
Now, after doing this you are ready to position your oven to the grill and start cooking and baking your chosen delicacy. You can now actually eat French toast, Vienna toast, and Punch donuts without the hassle of bringing battery-operated toasters and ovens.
Moreover, with such innovative cooking, you can enjoy munching coffee cake, roasted chicken, baked bread and brownies, and pizza any time you want even for midnight snacks at your campsite.
The only difficulty you will face in cardboard box oven outdoor cooking is manipulating the baking temperature. Still, you can get around this problem, just by adding or deducting charcoal briquettes.
Note that each charcoal briquette provides 40 degrees of heat, so it means that it will take nine briquettes for you to acquire a 360 degree temperature.
Cooking need not be always confined in the comfort of your kitchen. You can try experimenting on outdoor cooking just don’t forget your cardboard box oven to completely enjoy the adventure and twist of cooking at campsites, while enjoying every bit of your favorite foods.
Solar Outdoor Cooking
Using the power of the sun is an interesting, not to mention old way of cooking. Campers are familiar with the power of the sun: water is heated during the sunniest, warmest parts of the day, and some campers take along a reflector in order to hasten cooking instead of building a large fire. In households today, the sun is an ally of energy saving: barbecues, grills, and cookouts are considered more practical instead of an electric oven.
Solar cooking isn’t just for heating up your food. You need it to sterilize your water. Water filters will often function as layers and layers of sand, silt, and stone, all of them aiming to adsorb or keep back harmful minerals or compounds in the water of the wilderness. Solar cooking adds to this by heating up the water, further killing toxins and other bacteria.
So how can you cook using the sun when you go out in the Great Outdoors? Provided that it doesn’t rain and that you’re out camping during the warm summer, you can bring along a light solar reflector panel to help you cook your food. You can also bring along a solar box or oven, which absorbs the suns heat and transfers it to the food that you are cooking.
A solar oven can be easy to make if you have the time and materials to do it. All you need is some dark, strong materials to make the box, and some clear glass to cover the top of the box. When the sun’s rays hit the open, glass (or plastic) top of the box, the heat is transferred to the interior. The dark paneling keeps the heat in and allows food to cook in the closed-in heat.
Another kind of solar cooking method uses a curved version of the reflective panel. This curved panel focuses beams of sunlight onto a single point lying at the bottom of the panel, where you can place a pan, pot, or food wrapped in foil. This can raise the temperature of the food considerably, and make cooking fast. This is advisable if you are cooking foods that have already been thawed, or if you are simply reheating your foods.
These are only a few kinds of solar cooking methods that you might want to use for your picnic. There are many other permutations of these methods, and you need to know what kind of method works for what kind of food. Happy energy saving, and happy cooking, whether you’re in the Great Outdoors, or in your backyard!
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