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Hi Brian!
I watched the videoes and read the background information, and am impressed like you. This is really something I would like to try, but like you I am not sure that I understand it fully. ...

I think you have chosen good cookers for the workshop. You might also try a ROB (reflective open box). They are a little less effective than the Parvati, and they need turning fairly often, but they ...

My thoughts about this issue came from what I learnt in my year at housekeeping school back in 1966. I understand that certain enzymes in vegetables and fruit will speed the decomposition prosess at ...

I was thinking about soup with vegetables.
This is really about keeping the vitamin C level in the vegetables as high as possible.
Water takes a long time to heat. A slow heating prosess will des ...

You have a point there.
It will of course depend on the family's eating habits in summer.
In our area most families have one hot meal every day in the summer as well as the rest of the year. But w ...

Hello!
I have made various kinds of food
1. Chicken, one chichen with salt and spice and chopped onion. No water added. Other fowls go equally well.
2. Fish, add spice but no water. Salt when se ...

I really hope that a lot of people will see this impressive test! The diagram with the temperature readings and all the photoes are very convincing!
Regards Brit

Wednesday the 28th of March we tried making porridge from rice and water and milk at school. The pupils who took part in the experiment are 10 to 12 years old.
We used two parvati cookers 60 cm diam ...

Great experiment and great photoes!
Regards
Brit

There is an article with several photoes at http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Cooking_at_high_latitudes
Regards
Brit from Norway

Hello all!
I hope everybody with solar cooking interests in Europe will visit this forum. It was great to read about solarcooking in London. You can read about solarcooking in Norway, and look at s ...

Hello again1
Today I wrote a piece about solarcooking in Norway and put some photoes in it at the wiki. How will other people find it there? I named it Solarcooking in Norway.
regards
Brit from N ...

Hello! coconino!
Yesterday I posted a private message to you at this site. I did not find a way to attach photoes though, I believe that I will need to send photoes to your private e-mail adress fro ...

Hello!
The photoes were taken about Easter in 2005. That day I just put some water in the pot for making tea. The pictures were taken some time after the cooking. I will try to send you more photoe ...

Hello again!
In the summer I use the Parvati fairly regularly to cook. I also baked bread in it in a black cooking pot. A small round loaf of bread took two hours. The slow baking made the taste o ...