Solar Cookers International

Solar Cookers International (2000 2003)

Cookers ovens toasters 30 333 10 000

The special pippins, sir, or the medium cookers?

This year, Cuba is manufacturing or importing 3 million pressure cookers and the same number of electric rice cookers for distribution to every nuclear family at subsidized prices, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the population.

These cookers are also used to keep food warm, thus eliminating the need to warm food over an energy source

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen.

The Mexican company Vafe S.A. had to suspend the sale to Cuba of a material required in the manufacture of household pressure cookers, because it contained raw material from the United States.

(ii) Fireless cookers. These are baskets made out of reeds whose inner sides are well lined with warm and insulating materials that prevent the loss of heat from a boiling pan inside them.

In the case of the pressure cookers, the following attempts to obtain from three Mexican companies the raw materials needed to make some of the components, or the finished product as a whole, have failed

The representatives of UNITAR, Solar Cookers International, a non governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) also made interventions.

If two troubled young men with homemade bombs cobbled together from fertilizer and pressure cookers can have this effect on a major American city, one can imagine how tempting their example must now be to other radical losers, not to mention radical groups.

(1) In March 2005, an order was placed with the firm Vafe S.A. de C.V. for phenol, which is used to manufacture the handles of the cookers. This firm, after advancing the offer, was obliged to halt it, since the material was of United States origin.