Posts Tagged ‘solar oven’

Candlemaking: Attempt #1

Posted in Energy, Household, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

After receiving this wick material and these wick tabs I was anxious to start making candles! Here at Independence Homestead we try to reuse as many materials as possible, so I had the idea that we could make candles in containers using repurposed glass food jars.  We have quite the collection of baby food jars, […]

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Melting Beeswax

Posted in Beekeeping, Energy, Household, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We needed to melt down the beeswax in the comb so that we could use the wax for candles and other potential crafts. George did some research, and found that it was common to use solar ovens to do this. We had been wanting a solar oven for other reasons so it was a good opportunity to go ahead and build a solar oven!

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Building a Solar Oven

Posted in Energy, Food & Beverage, Household, tagged , , , , on July 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

For a while now we have been wanting to build a solar oven.  This summer we’ve made it happen! First we did some research on solar ovens.  There are several different configurations one can build.  We went with a box cooker design.  This is not the type of solar oven that gets the hottest, but […]

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