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Save Energy - Use Solar Cooker

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A Solar cooker uses sunlight to cook food. It’s a very handy device and very useful in areas which receive sunlight for 8 months in a year. Its not very costly, it can be prepared at home too but if you don’t want to have that exercise done a wide range of solar cookers are available in market. After incurring a one time cost on its purchase, there is generally no expenditure afterwards. Thus this is a 100 percent money saving instrument, which also helps in having nutritious food.


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Very little oil is consumed if food is cooked in a solar cooker. The food cooked in solar cooker is also very good for patients of diabetes and high blood pressure. The food is cooked by slow heating process, so there remains no need to monitor it continuously ie you may complete other tasks in between. Due to slow and natural process of heating the nutritive value of food is maintained. You can cook 4 types of items simultaneously in a solar cooker. The solar cooker can also be used as an oven or hot case. You also get rid of the problem of sticky bottoms of your pans that is generally the case with food cooked with the help of gas etc. you can cook all food items such as rice, cereals, vegetables, milk based dishes and you can even prepare bread, biscuits and similar dishes too. The more you use and experiment with a solar cooker more you will enjoy and you yourself will be discovering new items and ways to prepare them with this device. Using a solar cooker is so easy that anyone can use it, there is no risk involved like burning etc and there is no risk of electricity kept on or gas knob left open.


There are some precautions that should be followed, for example the glass used in the cooker must be kept clean so as to increase the efficiency and reduce the time of cooking. The utensils used inside are special and are black painted so care must be taken while cleaning them that the color does get off it. Still if paint is faded with continuous cleaning or use, it may be painted at your home itself. One must not leave the glass lid of the cooker often; it will increase the time of cooking. Though it is not as useful in rainy season, still you may save a lot of electricity and gas for the rest of the year if you live in an area that gets sunlight for most the days in a year.

So guys, Buy Solar Cooker and save energy and money for other necessities.

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