Cooking with Sunshine ☀- Solar Cooking Demonstration of 12 different Solar Ovens (and Ginger Snaps!)
10/1/2020
Carla Ramsdell
Oct 1, 2020
The Kitchen gadget under $10 that will improve your cooking efficiency… Double-Decker cooking!
“Single-Pot Cooking” usually involves dumping a bunch of ingredients together into the same pot like a stew or rice mixture. This...
Carla Ramsdell
Sep 9, 2020
What’s the most sustainable skillet?
Many years ago, when I began my work as a food physicist, I became intrigued with the range of choices available when buying a new...
Carla Ramsdell
Apr 11, 2020
The physics of the Instant Pot – Cheap food, energy efficient, healthy, easy and YUMMY!
With the holiday season upon us, I get a lot of questions about electric pressure cookers such as the Instant Pot. These cooking...
Carla Ramsdell
Dec 18, 2019
Travel Mug Pasta! Fun, easy, fast food cooked “passively”!
If you own an insulated travel coffee mug, you have a powerful pasta cooking tool at your fingertips that can cut cooking and cleaning...
Carla Ramsdell
Nov 17, 2019
A look back at the history of our greenhouse gases - CO2 over 800,000 years!
Spoiler… This blog post has no recipe. It is a short intermission from all food-focused entries to show a graph I think every human...
Carla Ramsdell
Apr 30, 2019
What's more energy efficient...A Gas or Electric Range?
A frequent question I receive is if gas or electric stove-tops are more efficient. As with many of these questions, the answer is a very...
Carla Ramsdell
Feb 12, 2019
How does an electric INDUCTION cooktop work?
In the past, there used to be only two mainstream options for stovetop burner selection: Electric resistance and Gas flame. Now there’s...
Carla Ramsdell
Jan 8, 2019
Camping with Physics!
I went on a great camping outing and had my morning coffee with the help of...physics. This is a great camp stove that transforms the...
Carla Ramsdell
Jun 12, 2017
