[Stoves] Cooking on a Philips stove

[Paul S. Anderson]

Dear Paul v.d.S.,

Congratulations!!!   We need to hear of success stories like this!!!

I understand very well about the "summer half-year".  Winter in northern
climates is not condusive to cooking with biomass in our affluent societies,
although a few billion people do it every winter in the developing societies.

I assume that you cook outdoors.  Please describe.  Open space?  covered area?
Some side protection?  Have you tried cooking indoors?  If you are cooking
indoors, please give details about hood or chimney or exhaust fan or whatever?

You probably are using multiple burners.  How many and in what 
configuration? Do you ever put 2 or more under a single cooking task?  
A few photos would tell
us much of what we would like to know.

You mention "to cook, bake, fry and bbq all the food for a family of 5."  Are
you the cook, or your wife, or others?  Shared activities?  To cook (boil, I
assume) and fry with your Philips stove is clearly understood, although your
stove arrangements would be of interest.

But what do you use as an oven to bake?  My experience baking with 
small stoves
has been limited to using a Coleman Camp Oven (folds down for easy 
storage, but
has no insulation).  Not great for control.  Not something for regular 
household
use.  So your equipment is of interest to us.

For the BBQ, do you have direct flame to the food (with grease dripping 
onto the
stove burner?), or is it the "griddle" type of BBQ grilling?  Again, what is
your cooking configuration?  Problems solved and problems still needing a
better solution.

What are your "back-up" methods for when the weather turns bad one 
summer day? To go into the regular kitchen is fine and certainly 
allowed, but have you
developed some techniques/devices that let you cope with poor weather?

And do you have any "specialty cooking" that is either accomplished or too
difficult for your Philips stove configuration?  I refer to special 
desserts or
tricky delicious Dutch foods that you do cook or found that you cannot do yet?

Cooking times (duration) are important.  Do you have any "long, slow cooking"
tasks like Latin American beans for 2 to 4 hours?  What is you longest cooking
time?  And what cooking did you do for your largest group of how many people?

:-))   Lots and lots of questions.  Sorry to be so intrusive into your 
family's
cooking and eating, but you really have a unique story to tell.  I hope you
will share some info with us.  Maybe you wife has her point of view to 
tell us.

Again, congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
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Quoting Paul van der Sluis <paul.van.der.sluis at philips.com>:

> Dear All,
>
> I use my gasifier stove on a day to day basis during the summer half-year
> to cook, bake, fry and bbq all the food for a family of 5.That is much
> more than just cooking....
> This is the third year. I have acculmulated nearly 20 months of food
> preparation this way. All this practising means I now even prefer the
> gasifier stove over the
> our western kitchen with thermostat controlled electric cooking
> plates.....
>
> regards,
>
> Dr. P. van der Sluis
> Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven
>

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