We have often talked to you about composting, the various techniques and all the advantages that this practice can bring to our life and to the entire planet. But have you ever imagined that compost can be used for cooking? This is what many claim.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWe have often talked to you about composting, about the various specifications and all the benefits that this practice can bring to our life and to the entire planet. But would you have ever imagined that the compost can be used for cooking? This is what many claim.
Se build our beautiful warm pile of waste in the garden it is already a great satisfaction let alone being able to cook it. Apparently the decomposition process of organic substances contains within itself sufficient energy and heat to prepare breakfast, lunch and maybe even dinner. Just think that the temperature inside the heap can reach values between sixty-five and eighty-two degrees.
On the net there are already many testimonies of people around the world who are experimenting with cooking recipes through compost. Some represent real successes, while others have proven to be real failures.
It seems that most of these people use gods for their experiments airtight containers for storing food before cooking while others simply deglmultiple layers of paper.
If the idea of cooking food inside compost upsets you in some way, you could work around it storing the methane gas produced by the decomposition process using it as a fuel in a traditional kitchen. As the French did Pain Jean that thanks to the methane gas produced by his compost heap over six meters high, he managed to yield energetically self-sufficient some families of Provence.
All you need to become a compost cook is some cubic meter of decomposing organic matter and some free time: to prepare an egg it will take at least twenty four hours.
And there are already those who have made tasty chocolate cakes like a Massachusetts schoolchild, or even Thanksgiving turkey like the Texan farmer. Malcolm Beck author of The Secret Life Of Compost.
We now know that our compost is more than just garden fertilizer and it could be our new outdoor kitchen. And who knows if maybe even our composter on the balcony could reveal happy surprises ...
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