Cooking With A Wonder Oven

Pillows are used inside an 18 or 20 gallon bin.  The larger pillow is used on the bottom, the smaller one on top.  If you look closely, you'll see that the way it's sewn, there is a "well" for your pot.  If you can't find it, no problem.  It will work any way you use it.

Here are some ideas:

1.  Cook using thin metaled pots with tight-fitting lids.
2.  Cook using the closest sized pot for the amount of food being cooked.  Any extra air space decreases the efficiency of the insulation, so as much as possible use the most appropriately sized pot for the job.  Smaller pots for smaller amounts.
3.  Always pre-heat the lid of the pot to be just as hot as the pot itself before beginning to cook.  This isn't a problem because you're going to heat the pot WITH THE LID ON IT before putting it into the wonder oven.
4.  Remember that while your wonder oven will keep boiling water at temperature for 11-18 hours, likewise it will keep frozen foods frozen for the same amount of time, as well as cold foods cold.  This can be very useful in the event of fridge or freezer outages, long grocery shopping trips, errands on the way home from the grocery store, picnics, etc.  The key is always to keep the pillows nestled around the food (without many air pockets between food items) and NO PEEKING.
5.  For recipes and step by step instructions and pictures outside this blog, you can visit http://myfoodstoragecookbook.com/category/wonder-oven-cooking/

• Bake bread
• bake muffins
• make yogurt
• cook rice/grains
• make stew
• cook small cuts of meat
• make "crock pot-style" lasagna
• make homemade tamales
• simmer sauces
• make rice pudding
• cook steel cut oats

Besides the recipes on the blog, the underlying idea is that once any food is heated entirely through, when transferred to the wonder oven, it will continue cooking/remain hot for hours.  Use for baked potatoes, baking for 30 minutes before wrapping in a foil emergency blanket (to retain heat while keeping the pillows clean) and continue cooking in the wonder oven for 45 minutes, or until you're ready to eat.  Your food will never burn in the wonder oven.

Note:  OR wrap potatoes in foil before baking in the oven, and then transfer to your wonder oven for 45 additional minutes or more.

Care and washing instructions:

Pillows (or bean bags!) can be washed on delicate cycle and dried normally in a dryer for about 15 minutes.  If you have a high efficiency washer, even better.  They can also be hung out to dry.  Never put them away in the tub and shut the lid if still damp or the pillows will mold.  Very often in cooking, however, steam will escape and lightly dampen the pillows.  Unless severely damp, I've never had a problem with mold on the pillows after cooking, but just watch out for that.  If cooking something that will likely make a mess (like if you have the tub in the car while cooking en route!) you can guard against this by using a foil emergency blanket between the pot and the pillows, and then wrap it around your pot before adding the top pillow.