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-# Retained heat (haybox) cooking+This topic is part of [[gt:food|Food & drink]]. 
 +====== Retained heat (haybox) cooking ======
  
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-## What is retained heat cooking?+===== What is retained heat cooking? =====
  
 If removed from a cooker, food in a cooking pot will continue to cook until the pot cools down. Placing the pot in an insulated box to prevent cooling means that the food will continue to cook without the use of further fuel. This is known as retained heat cooking, aka thermal cooking, haybox cooking, sit boiling or fireless cooking. If removed from a cooker, food in a cooking pot will continue to cook until the pot cools down. Placing the pot in an insulated box to prevent cooling means that the food will continue to cook without the use of further fuel. This is known as retained heat cooking, aka thermal cooking, haybox cooking, sit boiling or fireless cooking.
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 _Really good introduction to retained heat cooking._ _Really good introduction to retained heat cooking._
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-## What are the benefits of retained heat cooking?+===== What are the benefits of retained heat cooking? =====
  
 - A haybox cooker can save up to 80% of the energy used to achieve the same results by simmering, so there are both economic and environmental benefits - i.e. cash saved and much lower pollution / CO2 emissions. - A haybox cooker can save up to 80% of the energy used to achieve the same results by simmering, so there are both economic and environmental benefits - i.e. cash saved and much lower pollution / CO2 emissions.
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 _Our advisors, Seggy and Jane, run workshops in India helping villagers set up solar cookers and hayboxes to cook food slowly (improving nutrition) and without burning firewood._ _Our advisors, Seggy and Jane, run workshops in India helping villagers set up solar cookers and hayboxes to cook food slowly (improving nutrition) and without burning firewood._
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 **Make a haybox cooker** **Make a haybox cooker**
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-## Further resources+===== Forum ===== 
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 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:food|Food & drink]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/food). 
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 +===== Further resources =====
  
 - [The Fireless Cookbook](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60598/60598-h/60598-h.htm) - free book from Gutenberg Project - [The Fireless Cookbook](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60598/60598-h/60598-h.htm) - free book from Gutenberg Project
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 - [Thermos Cooking](https://thermoscooking.com/) - cooking with a thermos flask - [Thermos Cooking](https://thermoscooking.com/) - cooking with a thermos flask
  
-## Related topics+===== Related topics =====
  
 - [[insu:Insulation]] - [[insu:Insulation]]
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-## Specialist curators of this topic+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
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