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Checking and Retrieving Cooked Food

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Amazing way to cook when the power goes out! Welcome to the prepper kitchen!

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What happens here

After a couple of hours, the food is ready. Paul explains that when steam starts building up around the outside edge of the solar oven, it's an indicator that the food is done. He carefully removes the cooked chicken from the oven, which appears golden brown and perfectly cooked. He also removes the beans and rice, noting the steam pouring from the pot, indicating it's thoroughly cooked. For the bread, he removes two loaves, showing their evenly browned crusts. He mentions that solar-baked goods like bread remain moist and don't dry out as quickly as in a conventional oven, even if left in for longer.

Goal: Verify food is cooked and retrieve it from the solar ovens.

Tools and materials

  • All American Sun Oven Sun Oven — Containing the cooked food
  • Bread Knife — Cutting the bread
  • Oven Mitts/Gloves — Handling hot cookware
  • Baked Bread — Side dish
  • Cooked Beans and Rice Zatarain's — Side dish
  • Cooked Chicken — Main dish

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it's been a couple hours and we've got some steam here paul is telling me the chicken right here you can see there's steam around the outside edge and as you said that was an indicator that when it's done when the steam starts to build up around the outside edge then you know the the food is done and i'll tell you we've been smelling this bread and this chicken and then you know we're just dying to tear into it we're gonna eat we're gonna make this short and sweet so we can get to eat here but heck yeah so we're gonna open it up and let him take those out uh we'll we'll video him uh opening these things up i've learned a lot today guys and what you really need to know is it's almost like crock pot cooking in some ways however you can just bake like we're baking this bread it's just awesome so it's like crock pot cooking here it's like stove top cooking here and it's like oven baking here it's pretty awesome alrighty well we've got our chicken in here i think it's probably we started with about a three pound chicken without the sun coming and going so it's been in a couple hours but you can see here that we've got just this hook through we can see that bubbling the nice thing about doing this by the way in the sun oven is that because um nothing dries out we didn't have to put any moisture in it the juice from the chicken has cooked everything else and it's really going to make it tasty this is beans and rice it's just a mixture of red beans and some rice and some seasonings and you can see the steam just pouring out of here and we have really there's that is one thing that you'll be absolutely amazed at is beans taste totally different when they're made in the sun the complex carbohydrates break down slowly and they have a really unique taste and they come out great so i've sometimes will put a pot of these and just leave them in all day sometimes i've left them as long as 12-14 hours and they still come out great well that's probably the most difficult thing there is to bake but when you do it in the sun oven it is so forgiving and so good you recall that when josh put it in he sprayed a lightness to water on it you can see how brown our crust came out here and it really is delicious this has probably been done now for a good 45 minutes to an hour but it doesn't affect the quality of the bread i can leave it in almost twice as long and it doesn't dry out the way it would in a conventional oven let this bread stand for just a minute because it's awfully…

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