Kitchen excitement for pensioners

[Buster Bakdorzin]

When cooking a soup or a stew, my grandmother used to take a hot cast iron pan off the stove and bung it in a cardboard box filled with little beanbags, smothering it, then shut the box out of the way it in a kitchen cupboard. 90 minutes later it would come out cooked, and still Scalding Hot!
Anyone else tried this?
No?
I didnt think so...

[escargot]

Brilliant. Why though?

[dickymint]

escargot said:

Brilliant. Why though?

Energy saving.

[marctwo]

Why not get her one of these. Does the same thing and doesn't burn your house down. We use ours all the time, brilliant.

[Buster Bakdorzin]

dickymint said:

escargot said:

Brilliant. Why though?

Energy saving.

No no, she had a cupboard fetish you see, even the dog was made to retire to the cupboard, grandpa too!

She had money but was brought up on a shoestring budget, and taught to conserve energy and save old things, including shoe strings. She would even recycle cling film and wrapping paper.

A cooked breakfast for 4 people uses less than one unit of electricity, or half a kilowatt. She lives alone so it would take her half a lifetime to reap the savings of a sixty quid thermo pot...

[Semi hemi]

Sounds similair to a "hay box cooker" used to use one on camping trips suprisingly effective

http://www.preparedhome.co.uk/articles/haybox.htm

Edited by Semi hemi on Wednesday 12th March 11:52

[Buster Bakdorzin]

Semi hemi said:

Sounds similair to a "hay box cooker" used to use one on camping trips suprisingly effective

http://www.preparedhome.co.uk/articles/haybox.htm

Edited by Semi hemi on Wednesday 12th March 11:52

Interesting article. That would be great for camping or cooking in old england when fuel was scarce.