Reva Jihangan Malik of the southern Indian city of Bangalore has not bought an LPG cylinder for four years. She is cooking with the help of solar energy in this supply. Reva Milk cooks on a solar cooker, reports TheBetterIndia.com. In this case, both time and money can be saved.
Rewa Malik’s day starts with cutting vegetables. She soaks pulses and cleans rice to make lunch. For this she goes to her terrace instead of the kitchen. Where they have installed a cooking setup based only on solar energy without gas, kerosene, electricity, coal or wood. Interestingly, Reva cooks everything in sunlight.
Reva gets her solar cooker ready to cook at 9am every day. In different trays she puts vegetables, pulses, rice and other items. All these items are cooked slowly by the sunlight ie in more or less two hours. Rewa Malik uses solar cookers to prepare many local dishes consisting of vegetables, pulses and rice. She also cooks bread on the solar cooker, boils milk and makes tea.
Reva Malik runs a consulting firm called Primalize in Bangalore. She is well aware of the damage to the environment, so she wants to avoid any method of cooking that produces carbon dioxide and harms the environment.