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Half of the world’s population relies on wood fires to cook.


B e n e f i t s
Solar cooking offers many advantages over traditional cooking methods:
  • Slow cooking “sweats” the food so that little or no water needs to be added and the flavor is undiluted.
  • Stirring is not required because the heat delivered to the bottom of the pot is not intense enough to burn the food.
  • The pots require less scrubbing because they are not caked with soot.
  • Attention to the cooking food is only required every hour or so to track the path of the sun.
  • Although solar cooking can take twice as long as traditional methods, the time is offset by freedom from the need to forage or purchase fuel.
  • Physical injury caused by carrying heavy loads of fuel wood is alleviated and child mortality is reduced by decreasing the risk of maiming from falling into cooking fires.
  • Solar cookers, such as SHE’s HotPotTM, are designed to last 10 years or more.
  • THE FUEL IS FREE.
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“Cross-Stitching While Food Cooks in the HotPot” Oaxaca, Mexico, 2005


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