Cook Food Using The Sun’s Heat - How To Build A Solar Oven

From a yard in Kampala, Uganda, Moses explains how to build a solar oven using a tire, some glass, newspaper, silver foil, tape, a black pot, and a few hours. If you’re cooking outside or don’t have an oven, solar ovens are a great alternative for making a hot meal. Building materials are generally inexpensive and easy to find, and rather than requiring fuel or firewood, solar ovens take advantage of a sustainable resource: the sun.

How does it work, Concentrating sunlight: A reflective mirror of polished glass, metal or metallised film concentrates light and heat from the sun on a small cooking area, making the energy more concentrated and increasing its heating power. Converting light to heat: A black or low reflectivity surface on a food container or the inside of a solar cooker improves the effectiveness of turning light into heat. Light absorption converts the sun’s visible light into heat, substantially improving the effectiveness of the cooker.

Trapping heat: It is important to reduce convection by isolating the air inside the cooker from the air outside the cooker. A plastic bag or tightly sealed glass cover traps the hot air inside. This makes it possible to reach temperatures on cold and windy days similar to those possible on hot days. Greenhouse effect: Glass transmits visible light but blocks infrared thermal radiation from escaping. This amplifies the heat trapping effect. Then try these: 6 Beginner Recipes for Solar Ovens and Solar Oven Smores.

Publisher: Joseph Devine When serving or ordering a dish, one of the details that people spend the most time worrying over is: What wine would go well with this food, Many novices to wine are afraid to experiment with wine and food combinations, thinking that ordering the "wrong" wine with their food would be a major restaurant gaffe.

While certain wines certainly do go better with certain foods, there are few choices that could be considered downright wrong. Publisher: Paul Syms There are many excellent food and wine shows worldwide and they are always fun to attend given the opportunities to sample foods from different countries. Ireland is not left out of this trend, with the annual ‘Food and Wine Show’ one of Ireland’s top events for this industry sector and the show includes many chances to sample traditional Irish cuisine and drinks.

Watching your fat intake, Trying a low-carb diet, Keeping an eye on your daily calories, Checking every item on your shopping list to see what damage it will do to your diet, What do you do when it comes to homemade foods that you’ve made from a recipe, Good news, you can make your own nutritional labels from the recipe ingredient list! See why it may be in your best interest to choose a professional paid program for your food nutrition labels.

With both the free and paid programs, you simply enter the ingredients and quantities and the calories, fat, protein, and so much more will be presented in the form of a nutrition label for you. This is great whether you’re making your own granola or other high energy snack foods, or if you’re creating other recipes on the fly and you’re keeping track of your family’s nutritional intake. Ditto if you’re making food gift baskets for others. And if you’re selling food items, then by law you must put nutrition labels on your products.

Of course, even if you don’t care to make nutritional labels, per se, and you’re just interested in seeing how your own recipes fare in terms of nutritional content, the above programs will work for that as well. I like to help people find unique ways to do things in order to save time & money -- so I write about "outside the box" ideas that most wouldn't think of. As a lifelong dog owner, I often share my best tips for living with and training dogs.

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As if assembling a pump system wasn’t difficult enough, there are a number of pumps that can be employed and each of them has specialties and weaknesses. If you’ve ever worked with a pump system in the past you probably understand how dangerous an improperly assembled system and improper assembly starts with a lack of understanding of the components making up the system, can be. This article will explore the function, strengths, and weaknesses of the Flojet Diaphragm Pump and diaphragm pumps in general, as well as offer a little bit of the history of such pumps.