When I was down in Lubumbashi recently I was invited to join a seminar on solar ovens the why's and the wherefore's and the pros and cons.....well it proved to be a very interesting experience and included meeting an elderly lady working with the Methodist Church in Lubumbashi who was very experienced in this form of cooking and highly recommended it to us all.
I decided to invest in the smaller of the two versions available one was $60 US and the larger version $120 US. Now that our rainy season is almost over I can see we shall be using it on a daily basis but to date we have cooked banana buns, bran muffins, a chocolate birthday cake which was delicious, chicken pieces also scrumptious and this week we have started drying peanuts and sliced banana pieces. We did do bread rolls one day but after the dough having risen beautifully the clouds suddenly came over so we had to finish them in the wood buning stove instead!
The nutrition centre ladies have also started using it for their large soya cake which they make each week and are very enthusiastic now that they have seen and tasted some of the things which we have cooked.
It is such a simple design and one of its big attractions to our local people is that you need neither wood nor charcoal and yet can produce a very nice meal.
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