"Grandma's Blanket" (and Its Modifications) as a Cooking Device

New kitchen gadget from the stone age

American Sarah Collins, based on the experience of her ancestors from South Africa, has developed a new gadget for cooking - Wonderbag. This is a tight bag with insulated walls that allows you to maintain a high temperature for 12 hours. Food in it is prepared in the most gentle way, preserving vitamins and preventing the formation of carcinogens, moreover, energy is saved and water does not boil away. The principle of operation of the device is simple: a saucepan with food for soup, porridge or stew is brought to a boil on the stove and then placed in a Wonderbag. The most economical kitchen appliance costs $ 50. It comes with a book of recipes tested by Sarah Collins.

New kitchen gadget from the stone age

Well, this is like our "women for the kettle".

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I've also thought about our blankets, which we used to wrap porridge with. For us, it really is a "stone age", but for them new gadget

I call it a "microwave". An old synthetic winter coat serves as it. And I "bring" the pans, and the seams in it "catch up".

Army "soup" thermos.
Internal capacity of 10 liters, 40 mm foam layer, outer case with stamped stiffening ribs. Insulated lid with bayonet closure. The shape is convenient for carrying on the back, straps.
There were some back in the Second World War. But I don’t know what was then instead of foam. I must ask my father ...
Something like this, only here the cover is locked with screws.

Instead of foam, there could be batting or felt

Instead of foam, there could be batting or felt

The father said he did not remember what was there. But I remembered that once they had a "suponosus" wounded. At the most crucial moment of the toast. It didn't hurt me badly, but it also scalded me with soup through the hole.

New kitchen gadget from the stone age

That's how my grandmother cooked buckwheat. She covered them with blankets, and she got there.

And I cooked milk rice like that until the multi appeared. In the evening, boil for 5 minutes with stirring rice in milk - and overnight in a blanket. In the morning, warm delicious rice porridge. And no problems with burning milk ...

As well as saving gas or electricity

No-eee! Rather, saving energy and nerves!
And when I remember dorm kitchens - first for students, then for families - such cooking was a real salvation from curious noses and dubious "jokes"

Friends! But "grandma's blanket" turns out to be the warmest (both literally and figuratively) gadget in the kitchen. Solid benefits and savings

[Recipes in the "grandma's blanket"]

I'm afraid I'll have to create a section soon Recipes in the "grandma's blanket"

Definitely have to. I found on the Internet a recipe for cooking ala Sou-Vid in my grandmother's blanket. All the warm things that could be found in the apartment acted as a necessary device.

Everything is possible Right now I remembered the "modification" of the blanket! My mom came up with a mini-blanket for the kitchen. She took the hood from her father's down jacket on a padding polyester, conveniently tucked a saucepan of porridge into it and pulled it up with a string on the hood. New design with old meaning Distantly resembles the photo from the first post

The summer of 2012 was marked on our neighboring streets by the fact that all daylight hours we were sitting without light.We changed power lines, transformers, etc. By the way, the wires were brought to the houses, but they were never connected. So I got used to cooking in the cartoon in the same way. In the morning, I quickly brought it to a boil on baking and then everything came to it. And porridge, and pilaf, and cabbage rolls, and borscht. Everything that was enough imagination. And now I can cook like that.

Everything is possible Right now I remembered the "modification" of the blanket! My mom came up with a mini-blanket for the kitchen. She took the hood from her father's down jacket on a padding polyester, conveniently tucked a saucepan of porridge into it and pulled it up with a string on the hood. New design with old meaning Distantly resembles the photo from the first post

I work on the same principle. I spread my coat and put the seat from the chair on it. I put the dishes on a stand, close them with another seat cushion from the chair, fasten the buttons of the Finnish coat, neatly tuck the bottom, collar, sleeves. Voila, the process has begun! It remains hot until the morning.

I have already adapted a large box (fits 2 2-liter and 1 1-liter bottles) made of expanded polypropylene. I make yogurt and stuff in it, and it also serves as a refrigerator.
In short, this is a thermos for hot and cold

And this is written on the site, on which the number of devices per user rolls over all the wildest dreams (you are often unaware of them even) of ordinary people (not belonging to our clan.) I wrote sloppyly. but you understand me.

We save energy resources, reduce thermal pollution of the Earth, save our money

That's right, on a new device

Everything new is well forgotten old! I remember how my grandmother wrapped pots with quilts or sweatshirts! If anything, what a cataclysm - we will not pass!

I put them in the pillows and cover them with a blanket only on boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes.
If there are potatoes for dinner, then the phrase must be heard in the house: potatoes in pillows!
My daughter laughs at me, says: Mom, you are hiding food again ..

[Aprelevna]

Aprelevna, I have been doing exactly that for many years! And the phrase is the same! But you don't need to reheat mashed potatoes, it's like freshly prepared.

[svetta]

svetta,

I cooked rice and buckwheat this way until the multicooker appeared. I let rice or buckwheat boil for a few minutes with the lid closed, and then under the blanket
so the side dish I myself "cooked", and I was no longer distractedly preparing the main course - meat or fish.

My dad always "buried" food like that. More often it was porridge. They got there sooooo good.

Today I bought a new old "gadget" in Auchan - a pot warmer, 191 re.



There were also other colors.

[equal in height, but slightly different in diameter]

new old "gadget"

Looking at him, right now I came up with a qualitative improvement in the design:
We take two such warm cylinders (in which one base is "cut off", and the second base is double insulated), equal in height, but slightly different in diameter... We put a pan in a smaller one, and put a larger one on top. In comparison with the one shown in the picture, this will be easier and more efficient.

Anyone who wishes can banish

It's funny!
Recently, the idea often arose to sew a downy bag or "a woman on a pan" ... I thought that all of myself was so original, but it turns out that the Americans, after all, have already sewed and patented))))

[Chef]

Chef, on a large saucepan is a great option. But I will use it differently. Lid to the bottom, inside small a saucepan, and I'll grab the top with something.

And yet I lean towards the blanket (coat)
1. Does not depend on the size-diameter of the pan.
2. No need to "aim" at such a pot and the like and risk getting burned.
3. No need to look for a place for this pot. After all, the old coat has long been in place.

Wow!!! It turns out they have there "Grandma's Blanket" is a very popular way of cooking !!
Here is a video explaining in detail how to stitch a WonderBox.

pattern
This is where the blankets are used.


and recipe pages for WonderBag.The owner of slow cookers will probably be interested!
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Well now I know what to do for the weekend !!!

Here's more on the topic:

So, comrade, I am glad to inform you about the successful field test of a new culinary technology, to which I am at least 50% obliged to the publication of Comrade. sergvanych. In order not to torment you for a long time with words - today I cooked beef with potatoes and eggplant in a thermos. The result surpassed all expectations, and the body fell into a quiet, prolonged nirvana, which was not noticed for several recent decades.

1. Thermos - Arctic 201-1800 for 1.8 liters. Before field tests, it passed laboratory tests, and surpassed the declared characteristics - after pouring with boiling water, it gave the following results: 6 hours - 86.5 ° C, 12 hours - 75.6 ° C, that is, it is completely suitable for cooking by simmering. There is a dependence: the larger the volume, the longer the thermos keeps warm. This thermos is characterized by the fact that it keeps warm well despite the wide throat (and this factor is important for making havchik).

2. Products: meat beef pulp - the first thing that caught my eye; ordinary potatoes; filalet eggplant; black pepper peas; ordinary lavrushka from a bag; garlic.

3. Method of preparation.
The meat, potatoes and eggplant were cut into large pieces and thrown into the castrulcheg (the volume was predetermined by pouring water from a full thermos), the hall was filled. water and boiled with the addition of salt (1 tbsp. l. for the entire volume), then - the usual things: boiling for five minutes to completely heat all the components and remove the foam. Then the thermos was scalded from the inside with boiling water, and pepper and lavrushka were thrown to the bottom. After that, chunks of potatoes, meat and eggplants, interspersed with chives, were transferred from a boiling pot to a thermos, and poured with broth from the same pot. The thermos was screwed on and left for 10 hours.

4. Result.
Difficult to describe. The meat is not the best for cooking, but it turned out better than any before. The smell is stupefying. Bouillon is the cure for everything bad. Sorry for the emotions, but I'm still EATING!
I thank everyone who pushed me to this simple idea, I will develop it further, and, if possible, report here.

UPD. 6 hours with normal thermal insulation is sufficient. Everything is perfectly extinguished, for vegetables it is even better - they are not so boiled.

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funny guy
on business, but with humor and ingenuity

[Ludmila]

LudmilaYesterday, as I read, I decided to do something like this for the night. Today we tasted it at lunch, the children asked for supplements, but the thermos was just enough for one lunch

Are "women" on the teapot sold in Russia? Really want to.
By the way, Shteba keeps heat very well, the rest is multi too, but it really takes longer.

[Lerele]

Lerele, they reminded me ...
We used to sew the woman ourselves. The top was made of a real daughter's doll, just the right size so that the proportion was harmonious. The bottom (in fact, the heating pad itself) was sewn with a dome from the hood of a men's down jacket on a padding polyester. Above is a dye cotton skirt with lace, a handkerchief of the same color ... Such a lady turned out - Kustodiev is resting! Warm and held and exuded! She lived with us for a long time, until the little ones crammed her at all
PS We sewed more dining room napkins from the same fabric - we got a whole set for the tea table
And our Dunyasha (yes, they called him by name) was a star in our kitchen

By the way, Shteba keeps heat very well, the rest is multi too, but it really takes longer.

I, too, immediately thought about our Shteba, a miracle pot)) And you don't need to wrap up anything

[Rarerka]

Rarerka, from me a dressmaker is awesome
My only darning is good, everything else is horrible
Here grandmothers sewed, my mother sewed and knitted, and my sister and I were crooked.

[Lerele]

Lerele, yes there is a business ... I, too, never a dressmaker
just make a dome with a hole out of the hood, put a doll without legs into the hole and drape it with a cloth from above as you like it yourself, add circles on top and you will be happy

My grandmother first wrapped a pot of buckwheat in newspapers: they help keep warm very well.And then she wrapped them in blankets and ... put them on the bed, and covered them with a pillow. I myself cooked buckwheat for a long time - before Multi. Best result.

[koshkaTish]

koshkaTish, and newspaper to wrap to preserve heat and jars with twists are advised. I rolled it up, wrapped it in newspaper, covered it with something on top, it will stand hot until morning

I used to cook buckwheat in a pouring iron, as it boils, I cover it in the nursery between two pillows, a blanket on top.
Now in slow cookers I bring food to the desired readiness, turn off the device and cover it with a blanket, folded several times. All this deliciously stewed is obtained and I do not waste electricity in vain.

I just have a bucket with an accumulative bottom. It boils for five minutes and then infuses for 15 minutes, without newspapers and pillows, crumbly unburned porridge.