Thermal cookers: have you used one?

Memory_Girl

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Do you think this would work with curry? I have a jar of sauce, some ready cooked chicken and some onions and peppers, wonder if I heat it all up and put it in the thermal pot it will be ok?

How long would you cook it for? DD is out helping with lambing today so won't be able to reheat her bit as the chicken has already been cooked (part of my boomerang chicken)

If you soften the veggies first then add the chicken and sauce then the cooker would keep the food warm for a good couple of hours - as the chicken is already cooked.

Up to the boil for a good ten minutes then snuggle it in - as long as its till piping hot when you serve you'll be ok.

MG

moments_of_sanity

Well, the sausage casserole was delicious and the pot was far to hot to remove from the thermal cooker without oven gloves.

Dinner cost approximately 50p per serving and it made 4 helpings.

Now off to find something else to cook in it :j

jackel

Hi All - Made a cooking bag out of a jumble sale cotton sleeping bag(washed !). I used it yesterday to make my stock from the chicken carcass. Worked like a dream. 10 mins. on the hob boiling and 5 hours in the thermal - was so hot when removed I had to use oven gloves. Really pleased. jac.xx

Memory_Girl

M'wah haha!! More peeps over to the Dark Side:T

I scored a box of chicken drumsticks and thighs for 99p last night - so I am thinking a chicken, mushroom and thyme casserole with three of the thighs.

A butternut squash, butterbean and chicken tagine with the other two.

Chicken and veg soup with two of the drumsticks.

Chicken biryani with another two of the drumsticks.

Which leaves a sad old drumstick all on its own!! I am sure I will figure out something lovely with it soon.

Oh!!! and a request from a local church to come and talk about them with their sewing group and do a demo .... I think they are thinking of making some to give away at the local food bank to people it would help. So Cool!!!

MG

moments_of_sanity

My Dad laughed at the thought of mine when I showed him at the weekend but having told him how good it has been he is coming over tonight to have 'another' look at mine and I have a feeling I could well be asked to make another one! Good job I found a large quantity of cream fabric in the charity shop yesterday!

Mojisola

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Oh!!! and a request from a local church to come and talk about them with their sewing group and do a demo .... I think they are thinking of making some to give away at the local food bank to people it would help. So Cool!!!

That's a great idea! If each cooking bag also came with some recipes using very cheap ingredients, there's more chance of them getting used.

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DD1 who teaches is taking a bunch of kids to Zambia on a World Challenge trip this summer, they will be doing a community project in a village there and will build a couple of huts to house part of an overcrowded family. Having helped me to make my wonderbag the other day she is going to take the materials to make one with her all except the insulating material and help the lady of the family who are to move into the newly built hut to make one of her own as a housewarming present. One website we found said you can use sawdust as insulating material and she hopes they will generate enough from the building project to fill the bag, good stuff eh?

Mojisola

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

DD1 who teaches is taking a bunch of kids to Zambia on a World Challenge trip this summer, they will be doing a community project in a village there and will build a couple of huts to house part of an overcrowded family. Having helped me to make my wonderbag the other day she is going to take the materials to make one with her all except the insulating material and help the lady of the family who are to move into the newly built hut to make one of her own as a housewarming present. One website we found said you can use sawdust as insulating material and she hopes they will generate enough from the building project to fill the bag, good stuff eh?

Practical Action has a lot of good ideas like this - perhaps your daughter could also help her host make a "fridge" -
http://practicalaction.org/zeer-pot-clay-fridge-preserving-food-in-sudan

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Thanks Mojisola, they are limited as to what they can carry as the trip is 3 weeks and part of it is a trek so they will have to carry all their own gear as well as what they take for the villagers. I'll send her the link for the website though it will give her some ideas and she might be able to adapt them to what is available in the village there, Lyn xxx.

Mojisola

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Thanks Mojisola, they are limited as to what they can carry as the trip is 3 weeks and part of it is a trek so they will have to carry all their own gear as well as what they take for the villagers. I'll send her the link for the website though it will give her some ideas and she might be able to adapt them to what is available in the village there, Lyn xxx.

Most of Practical Action's ideas use stuff that can be bought locally. The aim is to help people to become self-sufficient so that if something breaks, they can replace it themselves, rather than relying on outside aid, and can show neighbours how to make their own things.