Solar cooking vegetable and beef soup

How to solar cook vegetable and beef soup.

Solar cooking vegetable soup with beef is not much different than doing it in the kitchen. You take your meat in one pan, cooking it, and draining off the fat, then add to the pot of soup that has already been cooking.

It is best to break the meat up into smaller pieces so it will cook alot faster.

It is also a great idea to have several graduated sized pots so that when you add more ingredients in your cooking, you won't run out of room.

If you cook your soup with all raw veggies like potatoes and carrots especially, its best to cook these FIRST with very little water because of how dense they are and require longer times to cook. Then, add them to the soup base with your other veggies that may be canned.

In my case, I just used canned veggies I needed to clear out of the pantry that were getting near a "use by" date.

If you get into solar cooking, THINK BIG. the bigger the oven, the more you can do with it, especially with foods that require several stages because its a slow process cooking with the sun.

Its also encouraged to have more than one oven or cooker or both so that you will have more options and varieties of foods to cook, especially if you are having guests over to eat.

For more information on solar cooking, check out solarcooking.org

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[tdiep]

I didn't make one but I buy one. Still trying to get it heat up right.. so far the best I did was 350 degree.. not sure if it can go higher. Like to make more dish but not sure what I can do.

[solarcookingnut]

@tdiep 350 is a good temperature to cook with. you really don't need it hotter. the lower the temp, the food actually tastes alot better because of the slow cooking.

[TheSk8tergamer]

i tried to make a solar oven it was crappy but im making a new pizza box oven today :)

[solarcookingnut]

@TheSk8tergamer Great! realize a pizza box oven needs alot more help than just what you see on others videos. I have some vids on me making a pizza in one but it takes some time. making bigger ovens is well worth making because they will hold heat better and you can bake alot more items too. Keep at it, once you have it mastered, you really will enjoy it! GOOD LUCK and make a video when you have success!

[pekoe]

(( Sounds like a bunch of Rattlesnakes in the background--WHere is this place

[solarcookingnut]

LOL, no, summer cicadas.

[thejesters1975]

smart lady!

[MrXstacey]

some hardware shops sell aluminium foil tape, automotive shops sell chrome decal stuff, either of these would help

[tdiep]

I didn't make any vegetable soup and what are you talking about???

[mtkoz]

@tdiep you should add some of that Marijuana growing in your yard to the soup, BE A TRUE VEGETABLE SOUP. What kind of strain you growing there?

[jbloch69]

dear solar cooking nut, i heard listening to how to make rocket stoves, of rolls of aliminimium of the thickness used for cans that you can buy in wall mart i think it was. for three dollar or two.I Here in madrid europe i have found places that sell sheets of thinnish aliminium . I bet you could find a use for them. solar cooking so i thought i'd tell you. rose -