Hello to every one.
I am Dutch and have lived in Cagayan de Oro city in the Philippines for the past two years. I am married to a Philippina and we have 2 kids. Cagayan d Oro is in Mindanao. I am retired.
When I was in the Netherlands I was already interested in Solar cooking. When I came here I was very busy with my family. When we moved over to another house and I saw many families cooking on wood fire I start to search for solar cooking and water pasteurization and I found solar cooking org. I do now a lot of research in solar cooking org. to find answers and solutions about a lot of questions.
Now we are busy to organize an information day about sun-cookers and water pasteurization. We, means some people of my church. We try to have this information at the end of the March, 2007. I have now my first funnel cooker and I pasteurize water in PET bottles. We are with 3 people and we hope that we also can have an information-day in my neighborhood. In the forum I hope to find people who can help us in any way if we need.
I also hope that I can interest many people to use the heat of the sun for their cooking. The people here are very sceptical about what I tell them about using the heat of the sun. Who can tell me how to set up an information day for those people. What kind of cookers are the best for starters. The people here do not have money to buy any thing.
You see, all help is welcome at the moment.
Thank you
Paul
Solar cooker progress
March 11, 2007 after I build my solar cooker (parabolic cooker) I cooked my rice. It takes about 2 hours and was very teasty. March 12 I cooked a whole chicken in 5 hours. But the Chicken came ouf the freezer and it took already a long time before it was defrosted
I did build my parabolic cooker from a carton box (for free) Alu. folie (20 Philippines peso) and some schotch tape (5 peso). All together 25 peso (US$ 0,51). My coming information day will be hold on april 5 and 6 2007. Many people here are already very interested about solar cooking. I am busy now to make the FUNNEL cooker and I will make 1 or 2 box cookers. Just to let the people see de differends between the SC. Next time I will glue the alu. folie on the carton.
In the bottom from the solar cooker I put some black carton. I painted a cookingpan black en put it in the solar cooker (after it was dried). I put a glas lid on the pan. I covered the whole parabolic cooker with a plastic (for free).
I am looking very forward to the information day and if some one has a good idea, just let me know.
Paul
March 16 2007,
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Response
Paul, Promoting solar cooking has many links to informative documents, including http://solarcooking.org/TrainersManual.pdf and http://solarcooking.org/FieldGuide.pdf. These might help you design your information day. Best regards, Beth Ogilvie 00:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)