Haybox Cooking

What is a haybox? It’s basically an insulated box in which you place your partly cooked food. The heat energy held in the pot and the food completes the cooking process without any external heat input. Haybox cookers are so called because the early versions used hay as insulation. They are also known as thermal, fireless or retained heat cooking. Various forms of haybox cookers are used widely in the developing world to cut down on the use of firewood. This saves time spent in gathering fuel and helps reduce deforestation. Conservative estimates of fuel saving vary from 40 – 50 %.

 

The purpose of this book is to promote the use of haybox cooking to a wide audience and reduce the use of fossil fuel used in cooking. There is a useful collection of recipes included in this book. In keeping with the objective of reducing carbon emissions, all of these are vegan. There are 5 different designs of haybox cookers presented in here. Many of them can be easily made using common household items.

Seggy Segaran

 

I have worked in the electronic manufacturing sector for 40 years. In the first 5 years I worked as a design engineer, using the then newly available 4-bit microcontrollers. I was also one of the first proud owners of an Acorn home computer.

 

The following 4 years were spent gaining experience of managing teams as well as engaging with other departments like sales and marketing and getting a wider understanding of how an organisation really ticks.The next 31 years have been spent starting and growing my own business. This has given me a wide range of experiences.

 

Over the last ten years, I have written many books on subjects varying from Portable Appliance Testing, through Designing Electronic Products to books about the Raspberry Pi. More recently along with my wife Jane we have spent much time promoting energy saving and written books on Haybox Thermal Cooking and about our various projects.

 

Jane Segaran

 

After working in Education and Road Safety for a number of years, Jane ran a hospitality business. She has worked in the voluntary sector for many years improving lives for the homeless in York. Jane is currently involved in promoting sustainable cooking techniques both in the UK and Sri Lanka and is a co-author of two books.

• Publisher: Ohm Books Publishing
• Published: 7th September 2020
• Language: English
• Paperback: 61 pages
• ISBN:‎ 9798683748104
• Dimensions: 12.7 x 0.38 x 20.32 cm