Cooking with the sun - Solar Cooking Workshop

Channel the sun: learn to cook food with it's heat

• Did you know that the rooftop bar at D.C.'s Conrad-Hilton is serving solar cooked food and using the cooker to dehydrate rooftop garden herbs?
• Did you know that a solar cooking system at Saibaba's Ashram, India, is used to feed thousands of people every day. It saves 220,000 lbs of fossil fuel annually and keeps the air cleaner.
• Did you know that Solar Cookers International (SCI) is advsing the U.N. about how solar cooking is a solution to both the recovery from COVID-19 and a path to achieving the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? SCI and other non-profit organizations provide solar cookers, cooking and cooker- construction classes in refugee camps and villages, to reduce deforestation, to encourage solar cooker enterrpises and to make life safer and healthier for refugees.

Solar cooking is easy and very forgiving. For instance:

1. food doesn't burn. You can leave beans and grains to cook while you hike, bike, work, do errands...
2. You can cook on cold, sunny days - even with snow on the ground!

Solar cooking can be super affordable!

At this workshop:

1. We're going to demonstrate the easily portable $15 DIY cooker featured above, that weighs 8 oz., fits into a small bag and works very well for camping, sunny yards & balconies.
2. We'll demonstrate cooking and baking in 2 different styles of solar ovens and 3 different solar cookers.
3. We'll eat what we cook while we discuss how to integrate solar cooking into camping trips, weekend meals, living outdoors, cooking at the beach ... the sun's the limit.
4. We'll cook vegan food at the workshop and discuss how to cook meat, fish & poultry.
5. We will have DIY solar cooker kits available for a $15 donation that covers material costs. Larger donations will be forwarded to solar cooker non-profits whose work eases the lives of people around the world.

These cooking kits are based on the award winning Copenhagen solar cooker.

1. Mylar cooker kit (above) includes pre-painted side and bottom panels, roasting bags, mylar, HVAC tape, clips, and a shoelace to hold it all together!
2. Silver cooker kit (below) includes reflective bottom and side panels, non-toxic paint, brush, HVAC tape, roasing bags, clips and a shoelace to hold it all together!

Workshop limited to 12 participants, including youth10-18 y.o.(1/2 price), and two free tickets for people who help with set up and clean up, half hour before and after event. Use promo code HelperFree at check out.

Thanksgiving lunch, 2021, cooking at LA EcoVillage.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

117 Bimini Pl, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles, United States