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Post by Sheila on Mar 30, 2011 20:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 30, 2011 20:58:24 GMT -5
You know I'm going to try this! I'm printing it as I type. Thanks, Sheila!
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Post by Valerie on Mar 31, 2011 6:24:39 GMT -5
OK, this is going on the must-do list. If I can do some of my summer cooking out on the porch, maybe I can offset the cost of running the A/C! Lord knows we get plenty of sun!
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 31, 2011 7:24:37 GMT -5
I plan on testing the refrigeration aspects of it, too.
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Post by meemo on Mar 31, 2011 8:21:30 GMT -5
This is awesome. Simple enough for even me to understand.
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Post by Valerie on Mar 31, 2011 8:28:20 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to be on the lookout for a big cardboard and a cheap pot with a lid.
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Post by meemo on Mar 31, 2011 10:16:15 GMT -5
The dollar store has the pots cheap and they are already black. I want to use thecanning jar too.
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 31, 2011 10:22:18 GMT -5
The canning jar is what I want to try. That would be so handy and no worries about spills if the dog gets nosy!
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Post by Valerie on Mar 31, 2011 11:41:10 GMT -5
I'm thinking if you use the pot, though, you could cook a whole one-pot-meal in it, or a loaf of bread. Course, if you can get hold of a 2 qt canning jar that would be best. I'm doing good to find regular quart jars! My mom used to have one of those big ones, but it wasn't a wide-mouth.
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 31, 2011 13:08:44 GMT -5
I have a case (6) 2-quart jars and several big pickle jars (3 & 4 quart sizes)
I'm thinking, if you wanted to cook a whole meal this way, it would be easy (and cheap) enough to make a whole row of these cookers. You could even make dessert in one - Hot Fudge Pudding Cake and Apple Brown Betty come to mind. You could probably even bake a loaf of bread in a jar. So many possibilities!
Now I just need some sunshine!
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Post by Valerie on Apr 1, 2011 5:26:28 GMT -5
Yeah, the guy said if you had a widemouth jar and you oiled the inside, you could bake bread in it. If it had a skinny neck, though, you'd have a fit trying to get the bread out after it was baked. I was telling Dave about this and he asked how much it costs to make one. I said whatever it costs if you have to buy an oven bag, somewhere around a dollar. He was pretty much amazed. (There was a time he would have thought it was nuts, but not any more!)
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 1, 2011 17:50:20 GMT -5
Yeah, the guy said if you had a widemouth jar and you oiled the inside, you could bake bread in it. I guess I should have actually read the page, eh? I just looked at the pictures. I printed it all to read later, when we get some sun. (We had some today, but, of course, I wasn't home. )
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Post by Valerie on Apr 6, 2011 9:23:37 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?
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Post by Valerie on Apr 6, 2011 14:05:21 GMT -5
Woohoo! It works!!! I made this batter grandmaw.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=quick&action=display&thread=4201 and baked it as a quick bread rather than muffins. Two things: Don't fill the jar more than half full if you want to bake a quick bread. The pressure blew my lid off and the bread oozed out a little bit, but it didn't break the jar. Also, don't try to bake a quick bread in a regular wide mouth quart jar. Even though it's wide, the mouth still is smaller than the shoulders of the jar, so even though the bread shrinks away from the sides of the jar, it doesn't come out without coming apart. Unless maybe I had cooled it completely before dumping it out. That might have worked. Anyway, I baked it an hour and a half out on the porch, and it browned just like in the oven, and is done in the center. I am absolutely thrilled!
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Post by meemo on Apr 6, 2011 14:24:31 GMT -5
About 30 yrs ago my mother gave me a corning/pyrex baking tube for baking round loaves of bread. Wonder if I stood it on end in a pan if the bread would ooze out the bottom or rise to the top. I mean if I painted it black and used it instead of a jar. Its about 18" long.
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