Slow cooker

[Badolki]

Sounds really good Sue. I've still got my Wonderbag but haven't used it much... maybe I should give it another try.
I couldn't use anything 12v on the move because all power to the hab area is cut off as soon as I turn the ignition, except the relay to the fridge of course.

I was talking to Wanderlust - Paul and Ruth - recently and they've got a Mr D's thermal cooker that looks amazing. You start it off on the stove but then it keeps cooking for up to 7 hours afterwards without power. Lovely product but very expensive at around £100.

I used a polystyrene box and customised it to accommodate a cast iron Dutch oven with one of those polyurethane gap filler doofus. Now I can start the cooking early in the day and put the pot in the box to continue cooking until dinner time with no more fuel used. The same principle as the straw hot box from my Boy Scout days and a minimal cost upcycling project.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Back in 1976, my new wife and I went to the center for alternative technology in Wales, we really enjoyed it, one demo was of the straw box, same principal, but poly whatsit would be much better.

Liz and I went back there last year, it was closed, and again this year, again closed, but were told we could wander round, we didn't bother it has become a right sh1t hole, rubbish everywhere, we got back in the van and left, won't bother again.