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Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - preservefreak - 27 March 2014
RE: Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - NorthernRaider - 27 March 2014
Oh I like this subject, quality cooking AND reducing fuel usage, good post tell us more please.
RE: Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - Jace - 27 March 2014
Did this every time we went camping with the scouts as a kid. From memory we boiled up meat etc for use in a stew first thing in the morning, then stuck teh pot in the hay box and it was nicely cooked when we came back in the evening.
RE: Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - preservefreak - 27 March 2014
It's mostly useful for long cooking wet meals like stew. Make the stew as you normally would and put it in your pot/casserole. You will want the pot to be pretty full as lots of air space in the pot will reduce the effectiveness. Then instead of leaving it in the oven or on the stove to cook for a few hours you put the lid on and bring the food to a boil. Let it boil fiercely for a couple of minutes and then then put it in your haybox.
Just a wooden box filled with straw, hay or towels will work great. I've even seen someone make one out of a plastic tub and sheets of polystyrene with a pot shaped hole cut out. When the food has had it's 2 minutes boiling move the covered pot into the box wrapping it in insulation on all sides. You can then leave it for anywhere from 2 to 8 hours. It allows you to make an evening meal in the morning and then go off to your day without using up loads of fuel.
If you use a thermos as I do you can make porridge and rice in it as well as speed soak beans. The trick to cooking with a thermos though is to preheat it with boiling water before any ingredients go in. For porridge for instance fill the thermos with hot water to preheat, then get oats, sugar and milk powder in a bowl. Discard the hot water and then put you ingredients in the empty but hot thermos. Cover them with boiling water and seal. I do this every night before I go to bed so I wake up next to a hot breakfast.
RE: Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - Straight Shooter - 27 March 2014
This is what I intend to make......1 steel bucket , into which l will place a cast iron pot, I will set this pot...and cover below the top of the bucket about 2 ins and centre the pot , I will hang the pot..... when I am happy......I will remove the pot ...cut some card wrap it around the pot grease the card ....reset the pot into bucket ....place a weight in the pot, with can of expanding foam fill the void .....make a lid out of ply ....tight to the top of bucket ...screw a nice handle to that and then repeat the process .....this ensures a tight fit for that pot and can be stored inside......grab and go ......or you could do the job out of all ply.....the bucket idea is you have handle and easy to hook onto something or carry plus .....if you wanted....line the bucket with card grease that.......you have a spare bucket to boil up your dirty grits.t
RE: Heat retention cooking or haybox cooking - CharlesHarris - 27 March 2014