Solar Cooking [Paperback]

Harriet Kofalk (Author), Harriet Kolfalk (Author), Warren Jefferson (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

Harness the sun's power to cook your food! Here are more than three dozen recipes for everything from soup to baked goods that can all be cooked by the sun. Simple instructions and diagrams for making an inexpensive solar cooker are included.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN); 1 edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570670072
• ISBN-13: 978-1570670077
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay cookbook - ALL VEGETARIAN, April 13, 2005

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Verdelet "compulsive reader" (mid-Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solar Cooking (Paperback)

The author notes "Because I am a vegetarian, all recipies are without meat, fish, or eggs." Many of the recipes call for "Bragg Liquid Aminos", which is a soybean-derived amino acid supplement.

If you aren't a vegetarian, the recipes are of limited value.

There are instructions for constructing your own solar oven, but most of the material is available for free from various Web sites. Overall, I don't feel that the book is worth the price.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I thought it was a very good book!, September 27, 2008

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Katrina R. Wogoman "VFTGAL" (Sterling, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solar Cooking (Paperback)

While I do agree that Amazon really should have posted this as a vegetarian book (It would have sold better that way), I thought it was a wonderful book that really gives one a good idea on solar cooking.

To the naysayers out there, I say this. Solar ovens vary in temperature (I have seen them anywhere from 250-350 degrees or more). Unless you know the temperature of your oven, you shouldn't be cooking meat anyway... for obvious reasons. It should be common sense that there will be no magic cookbook to teach you how to make rump roast in a solar oven because there isn't a writer on the planet that can determine the temperature of every single solar oven in use in each different hemisphere on the planet.

I have always used my own recipes. My suggestion to those who wish to cook meat in your solar oven is to use a glass lid and keep an easily read thermometer in the meat. You can always paint most of the lid black if that is your preference, but I have used the glass lids with just as much success as the solid black metal lids.

42 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Solar Cooking for Vegans, September 24, 2005

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Mary Mcsweeney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solar Cooking (Paperback)

In searching for books on solar cooking, I am interested in recipes for omnivores. I have never purchased tofu or textured protein, and never will. I was very disappointed with this book; Ms. Kofalk stated that even though she isn't a vegan vegetarian herself, she wrote a vegan cookbook so as to not offend. Funny thing is, I am rather offended. This cookbook is of no use to me.

Also, I can't help but feel that Ms. Kofalk is perpetuating an image that only left-leaning, naturalist vegan vegetarians will be interested in solar cooking. It seems that in this age of diminishing resources, more and more meat-eaters will be interested in harnessing the sun's power, too.