Solar Cookers Work Well For Desert Cooking

Don’t read this article on desert recipes expecting to get ideas for sweet after dinner treats.  And that doesn’t mean healthy alternatives to after dinner snacks either.  It’s easy to get a little mixed up.  The often sweet end to a meal is a dessert, while a desert is an often sandy and hot but always dry area.  Let’s talk about cooking in the desert.

A desert is practically ready-made for food preparation because of one important element.  That’s the sun.  A typical desert day can be as hot as the hundred 150° or more, which tells us what a great source of heat the sun truly is.  That heat can be used in the place of an oven, microwave or other modern cooking appliances. 

There are expensive solar cookers as well as homemade ones.  Desert recipes work well in these cookers where temperatures reach 300°F.  Hotdogs, steaks, soups, even spaghetti can be cooked here.  There are two issues to consider.  Number one this is a slow cooking technique.  That’s many hours needed to cook.  It takes constant realignment of the solar cooker to keep the sun focused.  The second is that it doesn’t work at night or on cloudy days – any time there is no sun.

But solar cooking has advantages that make desert recipes a tasty treat.  Slow cooked food is melt in your mouth moist.  Because the cooking is so slow, there’s no need to worry about burning it.  Have your doubts?  Try rice on the stove for an extra minute.  Plus cooking over a longer period means more time to savor the aromas.  Food tastes better when some care is taken in the preparation.  Contrary to what many people believe solar cookers can and do brown foods.

What are some desert recipes for solar cooking?  As mentioned before there are a variety of creative cooking recipes for everything from eggs to pastas and even casseroles  Use Google search to find more.

It may seem impossible to cook desert recipes with just the power of the sun.  But it works.