Thermal cookers: have you used one?

moments_of_sanity

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Scotty dogs! lovely material MOS long may she cook for you, Lyn xxx

Thank you, only paid £2.99 for it as it was an end of a roll :j

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Bargain!!! well found xxx

adouglasmhor

Mojisola wrote: »

The older version of this cooking, the hay box, was widely used during WW2 to save on fuel. If people had been getting frequent bouts of food poisoning, it would soon have gone out of favour.

I used hay boxes in the Scouts in the 70s.

RAS

Has anyone tried making a smaller version (thinking one person cooking here)?

moments_of_sanity

I have thought about it and I do have 2 individual mini size casserole dishes which I thought might be worth trying. You wouldn't need an awful lot of material or beans.....could be my challenge for tomorrow :rotfl:

Memory_Girl

I've made three different sized ones now -

a singles size (two portions of soup) for one of my old dears.

A "small family size" - pot holds 2 litres

A "Large family size" - pot holds 3.25 litres

The principle seems to hold for all of them.

My "old dear" across the fence loves hers as her home help can heat up the soup and it keeps hot till she wants to eat. She has Meals on Wheels but for dinner she is sometimes not ready when the helper comes in (on days when she has had a full pud to be honest). It's give her back a bit of independence which is lovely.

MG

greenbee

So what size is mine then MG? So I know what to put in it? (Yes, I know I should have used it by now, but the kitchen and dining room are full of furniture and cooking isn't happening... except Mrs LW's yummy rhubarb which I did in the SC)

moments_of_sanity

Green bee, this is the one I bought and it feeds 1 hungry man and 2 adult females. Mine had a 1.2kg gammon joint in today after I did the bacon joint.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8616142.htm

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I've just put a sausage and bacon casserole into my wonderbag with some home cooked black beans, sweetcorn, veg and passata and the house smells absolutely divine. I gave it a good 10 minute boil before I popped it into the bag and hopefully it will be 6 portions of deliciousness for today and to pop into the freezer.

Memory_Girl

greenbee wrote: »

So what size is mine then MG? So I know what to put in it? (Yes, I know I should have used it by now, but the kitchen and dining room are full of furniture and cooking isn't happening... except Mrs LW's yummy rhubarb which I did in the SC)

The largest size - although it takes a 2 litre pot as well - thought you might need the extra size for feeding the visitors and a regular size for you.

MG