How would you cook if the electricity went out for an extended period? Grilling or roasting over a fire is great but requires a lot of wood, and if you want to keep your efforts unnoticed, not the optimal choice.
My daughter and I tried an experiment today, cooking by tea light!
Amazingly, it works great. I am very impressed. I bought
the cooking tea light frame (looks like it used to hold a casserole) and the camp chef charcoal lighter basket
from Goodwill for about $4. I used five tea candles for each.
The beans
(beginning with dry - not soaked) were hard but edible after two hours
and done at about five hours.
My daughter tried the cake in the camp chef. We
mixed the cake in a metal bowl and put it in the camp chef basket with a
top on the bowl. Then added to foil over it to retain the heat. The
cake was done after about 2.5 hours. I think it would be excellent for a chocolate lava cake which I usually make in a crock pot.
The camp chef basket is perfect
because it has just the right amount of room beneath it for candles.
Needless to say, I just ordered a ton of tea candles from Amazon! Nice
to have in an emergency.
