COOKING EARTH DAY STYLE!

There are so many ways to cook food and you may already be familiar with some of them, like cooking with fire or using energy recources like gas, electric ,coal, but did you know that there are less obvious methods to cook ?  So did you know the art of marinating, drying and smoking are alternative methods. Did you know in hot arid hot climates you can cook food with rocks? You can even use dry ice as a heating element.
Now let's not forget today is EARTH DAY so I want to concentrate on all "types of cooking methods". And there is so many exciting things going on right now in the world to assist with alternative cooking methods! We all need to think out of the box when it comes to cooking. So speaking of boxes, there is great Box Cooker from India that provides a cheap inxepensive cooking apparatus that is in demand in such an  over popuplated country, which consist of many who are in need. So China is another country taking the lead to  look for alternatives and they created an ingenious apparatus called a Curved Concentrator. This cooking tool looks similar to a satellite dish and it is used mostly for industrial cooking but is very efficient and extremely cost effective. Finally, there is the popular Panel Cookers which is the combination of both a Box Cooker and it's curved like counterpart the Concentrator, which is widly used in third world countries and relatively inexpensive.
 So there you go, are ready for the changes in cooking ? Well, look no further the time has arrived and pretty soon virtual cooking methods will be arriving at kitchen near you! However, for now, summer is just around the corner and I don't know about you but I just love to barbecue! So think BIG, think YELLOW, think SUN and when shopping for that your next grill look for alternative cooking devices like the Hybrid Solar Cookers. 
In closing, I can not go without saying that our garbage produces a great fuel rescource. And as the saying goes "waste not want not" and well , think METHANE GAS !  This is such a cheap, effective gas that can be produced above and below ground. Which leads me into my last introduction into my final alternative cooking method. So would you consider cooking with dung? Yes, that's right, dried cow patties is a wonderful cooking element and there is a ton of it, so to speak. And it could create new jobs for the midwest's cattle ranchers! You just need the right cooking stove to avoid combustion and there are now many creative inventors building those plans for the right stove, right now! SO GO GREEN OR YELLOW AND EVEN BROWN.. JUST GO!..AND BUY!!
Check out some of these websites:
www.solarcookers.org/basics/how.html
www.sunbdcorp.com 
http://www.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/apro/dung/Aprodung.htm

Next time we discuss what happens behind the kitchen!

PS: Please remember the miners and their families in the recent coal mine tradegy in West Virgina. And to the many men and women who risk their lives everday to make our world a much better and safer place to live !


Signing off for now!


Chef  Sam


PS: I will have some wonderful pics from my STREET VENDING EVENT !!