Posted: 3/22/2010 6:07:11 PM EDT
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You have grain stored. You have mill. You know how to make bread. What happens when your electric oven has no power?
Most modern gas ovens require electricity (not to mention gas). Do you have a way to actually bake something? Our ancestors used brick ovens and firewood. Here is another option. Solar Oven If you've used one, share your thoughts. It may be worth the steep price tag. 
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Jack on The Survival Podcast uses one of those and says he gets great results. I think it is kind of cool that you can't burn the food with them. Apparently there are several plans to build then yourself for cheap online. Apparently, Wendy Dewitt endorses them too. (btw, is that Porter Rockwell?) |
| When I was a member of Rotary we had fundraisers to send these ovens to people in need that live in areas without utility service. I trust Rotary that they wouldn't be raising money for them if they didn't work, but as I remember it they went to areas close to the equator. |
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The few that I have used were marginal, at best. I have not use that commercial model. One of the issues is the outside air temp. The versions I have seen/used did not trap/store the heat very well. a 30 degree outside air temp with a 20 mph wind made it impossible to use.
On those days where the ambient air was 102 and there was no wind, they worked great, but who wants a hot meal at that time? TRG |
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http://www.solarcooking.org/plans/ Here are various plans for DIY solar cookers. The ones I've seen use a double box method with paper insulation between the boxes to keep heat inside. |
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As a Scout we made one to try out. Yeah it worked ok in the VA summer, but IMHO it's more reliably used in the southwest than it is in the northeast. YMMV. Same here, but I do remember it'd heat the hell out of an MRE, better than the enclosed chem heater. I imagine the dark foil wrapper on the MRE contributed to that. |
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The few that I have used were marginal, at best. I have not use that commercial model. One of the issues is the outside air temp. The versions I have seen/used did not trap/store the heat very well. a 30 degree outside air temp with a 20 mph wind made it impossible to use. On those days where the ambient air was 102 and there was no wind, they worked great, but who wants a hot meal at that time? TRG As I've looked into it a bit more... It appears that the best method is to use cast iron cookware inside of the oven. The good ovens will have a reflective and/or insulating lining. The glass top holds the heated air in. I wonder how much better your results would have been with these features. |
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I have a commercial one my wife bought online for $200 4 years ago. I boiled water in it in the dead of winter with it sitting in the snow on a sunny day. I also have 2 backpacking stoves with coleman fuel put away for rainy days. Do you know what brand it was or how its features compare to the one I linked on here? |
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I have a commercial one my wife bought online for $200 4 years ago. I boiled water in it in the dead of winter with it sitting in the snow on a sunny day. I also have 2 backpacking stoves with coleman fuel put away for rainy days. Do you know what brand it was or how its features compare to the one I linked on here? Is that Ahmed Zappa? |
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I have a commercial one my wife bought online for $200 4 years ago. I boiled water in it in the dead of winter with it sitting in the snow on a sunny day. I also have 2 backpacking stoves with coleman fuel put away for rainy days. Do you know what brand it was or how its features compare to the one I linked on here? Is that Ahmed Zappa? Hahaa. I had to look him up. He does have a resemblance. My guy is Islamic Rage Boy. |
| I got one of these for a birthday present. It's worked great the four times I've used it. Though I've cooked a chicken in it, I'm a bit leery of leaving meat in that temp zone for an extended amount of time. I'll continue to use it for rice, beans, breads, etc. more than anything else. FWIW, the heat retention is excellent in this thing. You CAN burn yourself with the pot. |