2006/08/04
No time for ovens and all that nonsense? No problem. You can bake cookies on the dash of your car while you work elsewhere in an air-conditioned office.
I remember when, back in elementary school, we built mirrored contraptions that we set out in the sun to cook hot dogs for ourselves. And everyone jokes about frying eggs on the hoods of their cars. Why don't we harness the power of the sun more often in the culinary world? Superman does it, why can't we?
Posted by Barzelay on 2006/08/04 @ 15:09 | Comments (3) |
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Sandi was creative and energy-conscious but I'm a little wary at the prospective of having cookies that smell like a car's mechanical innards.
We can't successfully harness the power of the sun for cooking because we can't always control the temperature thus compromising the final outcome. If someone designs a contraption that'll do that (and I bet someone's tinkering on one as I type this comment), then I'm all for it. My parents won't have to spend more time in the kitchen; they can just let the blistering Arabian heat work its magic.
Posted by: Natasha D'Souza at August 6, 2006 11:28 PM
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-and-Use-a-Solar-Oven. Was your contraption similar? The latent science geek in me thinks it would make for a fun experiment.
Posted by: Natasha D'Souza at August 15, 2006 4:27 PM
Yep, similar to that.
Posted by: Barzelay at August 16, 2006 12:21 PM