Cooking Methods Based on the Season
Living a comfortable life with a minimal amount of fossil fuels to meet our needs means that we adjust how we cook, heat, preserve food, etc. based on the season. In the summer, we get all of our power needs met through our solar panels. In the winter, we aren't able to meet all of our power needs through solar. That means we rely on our generator to charge our batteries on cloudy days. We are planning on eliminating fossil fuels from this part of our system by buying or building a wood gasifier to power our generator, but until then we're stuck with using gas. We minimize the amount of power we need during the cloudy months by using our woodstove for cooking, baking, and heating hot water. Winter Cooking : we cook on our woodstove (the Vermont Bun Baker) during the winter. It can fit up to four pots on the stove top at a time. We use our hand harvested wood to fuel our woodstove while it heats our home. Winter Baking : our woodstove has an oven underneath the fire box with
