
After lunch, Luan, Lillian, and I showed the women how to make cooking baskets.
These are made with a sturdy basket (depending on the size of pot you want to use), building plastic, yarn, material, and some sort of packing (banana leaves, grass, etc.) and a pillow—made also from grass and material. The point of this basket is to allow the women to prepare meals ahead of time and to save them money for firewood. Usually, most Ugandans eat around 10pm and all their meals take a long time to prepare. While dried beans usually take 1-2 hours over the fire to be done, with the cooking basket, you heat the beans for 15 minutes and then place in the basket. In 2 hours or more, the beans are done! So instead of paying for firewood for 1-2 hours, they only have to use 15 minutes worth and when the pot is removed from the basket, it has to be done with cooking mits as the pot is too hot to touch.


The heat from the pot is kept inside the basket because it is packed and acts like a thermos. Luan’s discipleship group is collecting their supplies to make their own baskets, and we look forward to hearing how they like them once they begin using them!
WOW! That's awwesome! Kinda sounds like a crockpot set on high and works as a thermos too. This sounds like it would be really helpful for the ladies in preparing meals.
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