The Wonderbag |
I've come up with some #Smartcooking tips to ease your load shedding stress:
Get
Freezing:
Freeze 2l bottles of water amongst your frozen goods in your freezer/deep freeze – these will
act like giant ice blocks when the power goes off and stop your food from
defrosting and going bad. (Remember not to fill the bottles to the brim as the
liquid needs a little space to expand when freezing.)
Get
Braaing:
This is the
simplest and most obvious solution, the weather at the moment is also
completely accommodating, just don’t forget to stock up on your wood and
charcoal.
Get Gas:
You don’t
have to re-do your whole kitchen to convert to gas: there are great options for
order online as well as local stores offering portable gas hobs that you simply
connect to a gas cylinder plus other very cost-effective gas options:
Get Speedy:
If Eskom
actually sticks to the schedule and you need to cook in a hurry before the
lights go out, you can also look at getting a pressure cooker which will help
you cook your veggies, soups, stews and curries in a fraction of the time. They
are widely available and can be found at the three major retailers mentioned
above too!
Get Green:
For those
who don’t want to go out and buy a gas cylinder or portable gas hob there’s a ‘green’
option in the form of flammable liquids and gels, similar to paraffin, but more
environmentally friendly and safer to use!
Get Smart:
Ever heard
of the Wonderbag?
It is an
amazing ‘non-electric portable slow cooker; it continues to cook food which has
been brought to the boil by conventional methods for up to 8 hours without the
use of additional electricity or fuel.’ In other words, you can prep your
curry/stew/bolognaise/soup/whatever tickles your fancy in the morning before
work and transfer it to your Wonderbag to cook slowly throughout the day, or
simply transfer it to the Wonderbag to continue cooking if the electricity goes
off. It’s an invention that will save you time, energy, money and sanity. (You
can boil rice on the stove for 3 minutes before popping it into the Wonderbag
for 40, yielding a perfect result with no chance of burning.) You can buy them
at http://www.wonderbag.co.za and find hundreds of recipes there too.
(And, they sell for around R230
which is pretty awesome)
For store locations contact
JHB – Sarah
Carmichael – sarah@smartcasual.co.za
CT – Peter Sharples -
peter@nb-wonderbag.com
DBN - Gareth gareth@nb-wonderbag.com
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