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The HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™ uses the principle of insulated cooking.  If you can keep the heat that is used to cook food, no replacement heat is necessary to complete the cooking process.  This kind of cooking is healthier, tastier, frees up your time, saves you money AND it allows you, as an individual, to make a significant contribution to the ensuing global effort to halt and reverse the rapid depletion of our resources.

Once you have experienced the incredible efficiency of the HOTBOX method of cooking, you never stop marveling at the almost miraculous way that your food is cooked perfectly, every time!

Welcome to the world of HOTBOX living.

The truth is that you do need to shift your way of thinking and be prepared to use an alternative method of cooking.  Nothing has to change in your preferred style of preparation of your food.  Once the results are experienced it becomes natural, easy and automatic to reach out for your HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™ to complete the cooking for you.The statistics are impressive to say the least and the bottom line is that each household will, with regular use, save over 200 kg CO2 per year. With 500 000 households using the HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™ we are looking at more than a million tons of CO2 per year.  What more motivation would anyone need!

What a HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™ is:

The HOTBOX is two cushions, filled with recycled polystyrene that encase your cooking pot and its lid.  Once you have brought your food to the boil the pot and its lid is removed from the direct source of heat and tucked into the larger and deeper bottom cushion.  The top cushion covers it and ensures that your pot is completely insulated.

Who needs a HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™:

• All households no matter how big or small

• Restaurants, game lodges and hotels

• Outdoor entertainers

• Holidaymakers using caravans, campers and yachts

• Caterers

Why you should use a HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™:

• It has a positive impact on the environment as it reduces the effects of deforestation and shortage of cooking fuels.

• There is a dramatic reduction in food tending time.

• You have unlimited flexibility in your cooking schedule; it is impossible for your food to burn or dry out.

• It optimizes the flavor and nutritional value of your food as it cooks at a lower temperature and doesn’t boil water away.

• It enables you to leave hot and cooked food, prepared in the morning, for children in the afternoon which makes the home a safer place to be.

• It acts as a warming oven therefore it’s ideal for transporting hot dishes and very handy when braai-ing.

• It acts as a cooler box too which is ideal for keeping drinks cold and for storing ice.

• Acts as an incubation chamber for yeast based foods such as yoghurt and breads.

What type of food cooks in a HOTBOX Power-Free Cooker™:

• Maize, and Oats.

• Beans and Legumes

• All types of Rice and Grains.

• Meat, Poultry, Veggie and Fish stews, Casseroles and Curries.

• Soups and Steamed Veggies

• Yoghurt, Custard and Steamed Puddings

• Breads, jams and stewed fruits

Absolutely any food or dish that you would simmer in its liquid once you have brought it to the boil.