Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Operational Order #3
Comrades! You can save on energy bills by cooking with a 'Sabbath hay-box'. Take a cardboard box! Line it with tin-foil! When you cook a saucepan of stew or curry, bring it to the boil, then wrap it in a towel or an old fleece, and put it in the box. Close the box to keep the heat in.
The food will continue to cook, as it will stay hot for many hours! (Depending on how well you have insulated the box). You can go out and commit desperate revolutionary acts, and have a nice savoury tea waiting when you get back. The food will not burn! Your energy bills will be lower! It is also a good way to cook all those dried beans and peas that take hours and hours.
(It is called a Sabbath hay-box, because observant Jews are forbidden to cook between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. But they still like warm savoury food, so they cook on Friday and put it in a box. Apparently that's fine with God.)
The food will continue to cook, as it will stay hot for many hours! (Depending on how well you have insulated the box). You can go out and commit desperate revolutionary acts, and have a nice savoury tea waiting when you get back. The food will not burn! Your energy bills will be lower! It is also a good way to cook all those dried beans and peas that take hours and hours.
(It is called a Sabbath hay-box, because observant Jews are forbidden to cook between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. But they still like warm savoury food, so they cook on Friday and put it in a box. Apparently that's fine with God.)
