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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 6, 2011 15:07:14 GMT -5
trueharvest.com/wide-2-quart-canning-jars-685.htmlThis place has a good price on wide mouth half gallon jars, in case anyone needs. They don't sell them in my area, that I have seen. Gayle, can we move this to Cookin in the Great Outdoors, so it doesn't get lost in here? I found my wide mouth half gallon jars at the IGA, of all places. I'll move this thread right now, Valerie. Good idea.
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Post by meemo on Apr 6, 2011 15:40:59 GMT -5
I found them in Krogers over here and at the mennonite store in Tn. Mama had some 1 1/2 pint canning jars that are straight sided like a wide mouth pint. If we EVER GET MOVED I would like to use them to make the quick bread. I'm still trying to figure out how to attatch that baking tube to a pan. My latest think it might work thing is to make a lid out of pizza dough. Make a real thick round....stick the tube down in it half way and bake it on.
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Post by meemo on Apr 6, 2011 16:32:12 GMT -5
Or make a lid out of that homemade play doh.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 6, 2011 20:12:14 GMT -5
If you put the pan in a cooking bag, you could probably do without the lid.
To fit the pan inside the cone, maybe you could elevate it on wooden blocks or set it on a smaller pan or canning jar - something to raise it up enough to clear the smallest part of the cone, where it could sit flat.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Apr 6, 2011 21:22:27 GMT -5
If you have an Ace hardware, you can order canning jars online to be delivered to your store. There is no delivery charge.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 7, 2011 5:32:17 GMT -5
Peggy, if you're going to paint the outside of the pan, though, I would make sure you have a lid. Yesterday when my lid popped off, the part of the bread that was exposed was basically cooking inside the bag with the jar in it, and it did kind of pick up a bit of a paint taste. The part that was down inside and not exposed to the air outside the jar was fine. But I wouldn't cook the food exposed in the bag if you paint the outside. If you use something bought that is already black that would be fine, though. I think that's enamel paint and it wouldn't fume on you. Before I do any more bread, I'm going to look for a bowl-in-a-bowl or a pot-in-a-bowl set up, so I can get the bread out in one piece. Thanks for that tip on Ace, Kim. That is my favorite store of the world!
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Post by Valerie on Apr 7, 2011 13:34:55 GMT -5
Just checked on the beans. It's getting hot in there. The bag is all puffed up with hot air. It's still a few hours until supper time, so I'm thinking they'll be plenty done. At least the lid hasn't blown off! I love this -- slow cookin' for free! That is almost my dream come true.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 7, 2011 22:20:19 GMT -5
If you have to paint the pan, it might be best to use high heat paint, like you'd use for a barbecue grill. That's what I'm thinking about using on the jar.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 8, 2011 12:39:12 GMT -5
The beans came out good, except there were a few hard ones here and there. They weren't quite done when I had to bring them in, so I finished them on the stove. Y'all be careful if you do liquid in the jar, though. Mine built up a lot of pressure in there, and when I unscrewed the lid, the hot juice boiled out and burned me. Guess I should have let it sit a while first and cool off, but I had to finish supper.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 8, 2011 16:21:54 GMT -5
Layered potatoes, carrots, onions, chicken & seasonings in the jar today. No added liquid. Clouds were in and out so I let it cook 4 1/2 hours. Just to be safe I stuck the thermometer down the center of the jar when I brought it in. 180° !
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Apr 8, 2011 17:20:46 GMT -5
I used to put dinner in the solar oven before I went to church and would come home to find it cooked nicely. That was in CO. We had lots of sun in the desert.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 8, 2011 18:42:46 GMT -5
It takes until almost noon for the sun to get up over the trees and onto our porch. If I'm home though I could start something on one side of the porch and then move it to the other side if needed.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 9, 2011 10:49:08 GMT -5
I have places in my yard that get sun from about 9 am until the sun goes down, but we usually have clouds in the afternoon (or at least haze), so that makes it hard for me to use solar. I'm hoping this will work fast enough that it will get done before the clouds come. (they're really chemtrails, if you didn't already guess that)
I got some cooking bags and another can of spray paint yesterday. Now I just need to glue on the foil and paint the jar and I'll be ready to try it out - if it ever quits raining.
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Post by steve on Apr 25, 2011 21:55:49 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone noticed how to use the solar funnel cooker to cool. It is described down on the bottom of the first link provided in the original post. I had studied about this in college & I think I will try my own experiment this summer.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 25, 2011 22:03:52 GMT -5
If the weather cooperates enough that I can get the thing finished, I want to try cooling with it, too. I want to compare how well it cools to the evaporation coolers made with pots and sand.
I'm starting to wonder if I should make this at all. I've had every roadblock you can imagine thrown in my path since I started it. First, I was a little leery of the paint I was going to use, so I got a different kind. Then I had to wait for the rain to quit so I could paint the jar. Then I got the cone all ready to cover with foil, but I wanted to use spray adhesive, so, once again, I had to wait for the rain to quit so I could use it outside. Then I ran out of foil! I am sure I have nearly a full bin of it somewhere, but I can't find it. Now I have the foil, but I've been too busy to work on it. It's supposed to rain tomorrow.
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