Thermal cooker Dream-pot

lovelyjubbly

Firstly apologies if this has already been mentioned on here before but I have just seen an advert for a Thermal cooker called a Dream pot, you are supposed to heat your ingredients for a few minutes and then put them in the Dream Pot and it will slowly cook your meal without using ANY energy at all, it sounds dear at £78 but it might pay for itself long term? what does everyone else think?

web site is www.dream-pot.co.uk

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Looks to me like a very large and expensive thermos flask.

geordie_joe

We discussed this on the green board a year or two ago. The principle that is, not this product.

Some people made their own out of all sorts, hay was popular. Just a box to put the pan in and pack it with hay, or any insulating material. Personally, I just wrapped a couple of tea towels and a hand towel around a pan. It worked, cooked the carrots but took a lot longer.

Penelope_Penguin

lovelyjubbly wrote: »

Firstly apologies if this has already been mentioned on here before but I have just seen an advert for a Thermal cooker called a Dream pot, you are supposed to heat your ingredients for a few minutes and then put them in the Dream Pot and it will slowly cook your meal without using ANY energy at all, it sounds dear at £78 but it might pay for itself long term? what does everyone else think?

You've used energy to heat up in the first place You can't cook without using heat - it breaks the laws of physics

Penny. x

geordie_joe

lovelyjubbly wrote: »

I have just seen an advert for a Thermal cooker called a Dream pot, you are supposed to heat your ingredients for a few minutes and then put them in the Dream Pot and it will slowly cook your meal without using ANY energy at all,

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

You've used energy to heat up in the first place You can't cook without using heat - it breaks the laws of physics

Lovely knows that, see the purple bit above. The point is the dream Pot doesn't use any energy.

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geordie_joe wrote: »

Some people made their own out of all sorts, hay was popular. Just a box to put the pan in and pack it with hay, or any insulating material.

I remember doing that back in the 'dark' days of the 1970s when we had numerous power cuts, and only three hours a day to cook in.Pots of stews were part cooked then put into cardboard boxes surrounded by scrunched up paper/hay then left, usually over night and for hours to cook in their self-generated heat.
Necessity being the mother of invention for us housewives of those far off days, we managed to feed our kids even though we were short of almost everything . It seemed then that whatever you wanted to buy there was a 'world shortage' I remember going into a sports shop once to try to buy some little plastic cribbage pegs for my husbands crib board and the shop keeper telling me totally straightfaced that he hadn't got any as there was a 'world shortage':rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: OH ended up using some little nails, and to this day they are still tucked away within the board in the spare room. :D

thriftlady_2

Sounds like a hay box. These enjoyed a brief popularity during the war.

There's a simple version here, much cheaper than £78.

Kiwisaver_2

Ah, I know about these, they're hugely popular with campers in Australia and I hear nothing but rave reviews about them across some of Aussie camping forums. Particularly, come into their own when you've been on the road all day and reaching the camp site with your dinner already cooked.

You do need some initial energy, as you prepare your meal such as a stew and cook it normally on a hob for a maximum time of 30 minutes, then transfer to the Dream Pot where the food continues to cook with the residual heat and no need for any further heat source.

People have become very creative and inventive with them when cooking in the great outdoors and there are loads of recipes and ideas for using them across the internet.

So yes similar principal to a Thermos flask, as it also keeps stuff cold, but I have yet to see a 6 litre Thermos flask.:D

geordie_joe

thriftlady wrote: »

There's a simple version here, much cheaper than £78.

Where?..

thriftlady_2

:doh:Sorry! Forgot to do the link. Have fixed it now.

Kiwisaver_2

For anyone who is interested here's a pattern and guidelines on how to make a 'Wonder Box' Cooker.

http://www.iwillprepare.com/index_files/Wonder_Box.htm