Subject: Re: Solar Powered Forges

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:49:37 -0600

>Of course you wouldn't cook a chicken in a forge either. We are talking
>about apples an oranges here.
>

I have never tried a chicken but I have thrown in a couple foil wrapped
potatos at the end of the day. My gas forge is lined with a castable
refractory so it stays hot for quite a while when I shut down. The forge
baked potatos fry up quick in the morning. Anyone else experimenting with
forge cooking?

Bon Appetit!

Bob

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From: "Mark E. Williams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 07:28:52 -0400

On Sep 10,  3:49pm, [email-masked] wrote:
> Subject: Re: Solar Powered Forges
>
Hot dogs or weiners in a coal forge don't tast too bad. In addition, you get
your sulfur food supplement for free.

Mark

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From: Dan Nibbelink <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:40:05 -0700

> baked potatos fry up quick in the morning. Anyone else experimenting with

While taking Frank Turley's class I would bring two burritos wrapped in 
foil and place them on the forge hood when I got there in the morning. By 
noon they would provide a hot lunch.
-- 
Dan Nibbelink
RedHawk Forge
Berthoud, Colorado
[email-masked]
http://www.csn.net/~dannibb

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From: Steve Herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:57:05 -0700 (PDT)

I used a ng furnace that the shop instructor normally used to cook his
frozen dinner in. He told me to heat up his dinner as I was using his
space. I asked him how and he said just put it in the door. I did this and
then closed the door. As I had just finished a heat treatment on a 6 pound
sledge hammer head, there was still LOTS of residual heat. The dirrection
on the package said 30 min. at a 350 oven. I figured I'd check it after
about 5 minutes and see how close it was. 

On opening the door I was greeted by much smoke, and a boxed dinner that
had the top and sides completely burned off, the frozen portion of the
dinner (the part that a microwave can't touch) was all that was left and
even that was severely browned. I took the dinner to the instructor and
said here you go, done as per your instructions. He wasn't too happy, but
did enjoy the dinner I got him from the cafeteria...

Hrolthgar -   [email-masked]
           Steve Herrick

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From: "Steven O. Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:15:34 MDT

There's a book available called "Manifold Destiny", and is a how-to
book on the subject of cooking on car engines. My favorite part
(having grown up in Nebraska), was the section on Midwestern Cooking.
Chapter opens with the quote "Midwestern cooking is the reason people
become cooks."

A humorous book that may be applicable here.

--
Steven O. Smith
[email-masked]