Free solar cooking/dehydrating class, anyone?

Leigh, over at the 5 Acres and a Dream blog, has organized an online solar-cooking class for next week. She approaches the topic from a homesteader/gardener/prepper perspective. Interested? Go on over and sign up. I did.

I don't really get solar ovens, even though I earned my hippie badge in the early '70s. I do know you can build your own oven for cheap (lots of plans online), and am hoping to dry food and herbs without heating up the house or giving money to the nice folks at Inland Power.

Anyway, here is the blurb about the class. Maybe I'll (virtually) see you (virtually) there.

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13 Ways to Utilize Sunlight 

for Delicious Efficient Homesteading

The instructor for the class will be Paul Munsen of Sun Ovens International. Here are some of the things it covers:

• How to use a solar oven for off-grid baking, boiling, steaming, and roasting complete meals. 
• Why food doesn't burn or dry out in a solar oven.
• How to boil or pasteurize drinking water in emergencies.
• How to hard cook eggs (even freshly laid eggs are easy to peel with this method).
• How to dehydrate fruits, vegetables, even meat for jerky.
• How to dehydrate herbs without losing nutrients and essential oils.
• Naturally kill bug infestations in grains or dried foods (think dry-pack vacuum canning!)
• And more.