SharonID
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Posts: 74
Location: northern Idaho
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 Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: Solar cookers for homeless people. |
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One of the people who just happened to show up at the park while my international solar cooking holiday event was in progress was a homeless woman, who has been living in her car since fleeing a bad domestic situation. "Maybe this is the answer to my problem of being unable to cook and heat water," she said.
So I gave her an EZ-3 (plus bag, extra bag, and booster) and pint and quart cooking jars, and I've been thinking about it ever since. For homeless people who have a car or even a cart or backpack that they are living out of, small folding solar cookers such as the EZ-3, which you can see at: http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/EZ-3_Solar_Cooker could be a definite asset. I plan to experiment with sliding cans of beans, soup, etc. (opened partially to vent) into a thin black sock, to see how the EZ-3 does at heating them up that way.
I was homeless for a while myself, back when I was nineteen, and the ability to heat food or water without fire would have been a wonderful thing. You can buy a can of soup a lot cheaper than a bowl of soup in a restaurant, or a whole package of instant oatmeal packets for less than the price of one restaurant serving. Anyway, it's something for people to think about, if they are looking for a humanitarian project.
It will be even easier when the EZ-3 book is finished, but there is enough information on the web page so that anyone with even a little cooker building experience can figure out how to make one, and it would be a particularly good cooker for the purpose, because it is so compact when folded and so very easy to learn to use.
Regards,
SharonID
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