- published: 24 May 2014
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A hay box, straw box, fireless cooker, insulation cooker, wonder oven or retained-heat cooker is a cooker that utilizes the heat of the food being cooked to complete the cooking process. Food items to be cooked are heated to boiling point, and then insulated. Over a period of time, the food items cook by the heat captured in the insulated container. Generally, it takes three times the normal cooking time to cook food in a hay box.
Hay boxes are so called because hay or straw were the commonly used insulators. Pots of food would be brought to a boil and then placed in a box filled with hay or straw. Additional hay or straw would be added around and on top of the pot. The inventor Karl von Drais developed a novel form of haybox in the first part of the 19th century.
During World War II, hay boxes were used as a way of conserving rationed cooking fuel.
Campers and hikers have used variations of hay boxes for years, heating their food in the morning and then storing the heated pot in a sleeping bag or backpack. In this way a hot meal is available for eating at the end of the day.
Home made hay box or thermal cooker
How to Make a Hay Box
DIY Hay Box
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How to do Heat Retention Cooking (thermal/haybox cooking)
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Very simple energy saving cooker. Heat Retention, thermal cooker. haybox, wonderbox, shuttlechef
The hay box or thermal cooker is an insulated box. It cooks food using no external energy source. Saves up to 80% energy and saves time and saves money. Good for cooking food that is in a liquid (eg, rice, beans, curries, stews, etc) Food is precooked (that is boiled) for around 10 minutes, then transfered to the hay box. The remainder of the cooking process is done in the insulated hay box using the heat trapped in the food ! Every house hold should have one ! A few examples: Pasta: instead of using gas or electricity to cook pasta for 12 minutes, I precook the pasta in boiling water for 2 minutes, then place it in they hay box for say 15 minutes. The pasta is cooked and hot using 6 times less fuel (gas, electricity or wood). For other dishes that usually take longer to cook, like a mine...
This is how I made my rabbit's new hay box! I am really enjoying it and so are the bunnies! It holds a lot more hay then my previous hay racks! Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/101rabbitshaley Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/101Rabbits/301847836494199?ref=hl Instagram: http://instagram.com/official101rabbits Website: http://www.101rabbits.com/
Jaimie has been researching all kinds of off-grid cooking methods and the Hay Box method has made it to our mountain. Here you go.
Heat retention cooking allows you to cook the same food while using less energy. This video shows how to do it, along with details on variables such as insulation, simmering time, cooking time in the insulated container, and so on. Safety regarding bacterial growth is also covered. For more, see: http://rimstar.org/efficiency_conservation/heat_retention_cooking.htm - http://rimstar.org
www.centerclinic.wordpress.com Center for Children in Need The second video how to cook with a biomass gassifier and a hay box. We cooked with 4 pieces of charcoal, some twigs and a few hands full of wood pieces a pot of noodles for 3 persons plus a pot of rice with vegetables (for our dogs). The dog food was boiled up on the gassifier and then slow cooked in an improvised hay box from cushions and blankets. With the rest heat we boiled a pot of water for tea. This gassifier is very efficient, especially in combination with the hay box. The gassifier cookers save 75% of wood! What I also like is that I can regulate easily the heat. At the end of the video is a table how long different foods need to cook in the haybox.
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