Not electricity-free, but apparently 34% less electricity than other toasters – not a bad start! Made by Morphy Richards, it seems to be available almost everywhere for around £34-35. You can get one from the Good Energy shop, which would seem to be an ethical way to buy.
Posts Tagged ‘kitchen gadgets’
12 Feb
Shopping List – latest update
Steadily firming up the shopping list for our new house – here’s the latest list, with links. Kitchen Multi-fuel or Wood-Fired Range (possibly with Back Boiler), will need to be smokeless Various non-powered kitchen gadgets: Mouli, Hand-Powered Blender, Thermos Slow Cooker, Low-voltage (LED or Fluorescent) under-cabinet lighting Water Purifier Large Pantry, pref double-sided DC Fridge or Brownout Protector Equipment for Waxing [...]
6 Jan
Peak-Oil Kitchen Gadgets – Slow Cooker
An interesting one this – a slow cooker based on a thermos. Basically you heat up the pot of food and then pop it into the insulated flask. It’ll keep cooking for eight hours. Think of the energy you save – it only needs to be on the stove for about 20 minutes to cook a [...]
8 Nov
Preparations: Peak-Oil Kitchen Gadgets
Just been reading some great descriptions of how to make Passata, and Pasta Sauces. I’ve long thought that this could be a good way to make the most of our Aquaponic bounty through the long winter months - delicious home-grown-and-made pasta sauces, flavoured with our aquaponic-grown herbs. I think the Mouli that is already on my shopping list would be good [...]
20 Sep
Preparation: Peak-oil kitchen gadgets
OK, time for another light-hearted one . We’ve been baking bread as part of our after-peak-oil preparations, and it turns out that all our standard two-litre pyrex bowls are way too small for serious home self-sufficiency. So it’s time to go for the classic – one of those huge cream-and-white mixing bowls that everybody’s grandmother [...]
26 Aug
Preparation: Peak-oil kitchen gadgets (2)
Of course it won’t all be soup-soup-soup in my peak oil future – when I’m having a baking day it’d be great to throw a Vegetable Gratin into the wood-fired oven – but how to make the breadcrumbs? It might be that the mouli is up to this, but if not then one of these [...]
25 Aug
Preparation: Peak-oil kitchen gadgets
OK, so I’ve accepted that we’ll be eating a lot of soup in my peak-oil future. Thats fine, I love a good vegetable soup. But it occurs to me that I do use an electric blender to make it. Here’s a blast of nostalgia though – a Mouli – the original 1940s-designed classic food processor. [...]
