1. Saves women time
The New Way of Cooking takes women much less time. Not the entire cooking process itself, which usually takes a bit longer—they don’t call it Slow Cooking for nothing—but you don’t have to stay with it! You don’t have to worry about it anymore! You do the preparation, get the cooking started, and the Slow Cooking Bag essentially takes over the cooking for you. This way, you can use your valuable time for something else…
Women in Ghana have many tasks and responsibilities, so much work to do! Since gathering wood, especially in the villages, takes a lot of energy and time, and with this form of cooking, they need much less wood, they’ll also find that they have more time to spend on more useful things!
2. Makes cooking safer
It’s certainly asking for trouble: cooking long and often over an open fire… Or—to a much lesser extent—simmering pots on precarious gas burners in small, unsafe spaces. Children running around, overworked women struggling to focus on what they’re doing for hours, often resulting in fires and burns and all the attendant misery.
The much shorter time actually spent cooking when using the Slow Cooking Bag allows you to stay more alert: Concentrating for fifteen minutes is still doable, but a few hours becomes more challenging!
Far fewer “unattended pots” reduces the risk of dangerous situations. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, for example, you could
…quickly shove breakfast into the Slow Cooking Bag in no time, then dedicate all the time and attention to getting your children washed, dressed, and ready for school, while the Slow Cooking Bag ensures they can enjoy a delicious meal right away…?!
3. Is healthier for women and children
Cooking with wood produces a lot of smoke. Women spend hours stirring their pots and pans over the suffocating smoke, often with small children on their backs who can’t do anything to avoid the smoke and are forced to inhale it. Every year, many people die from constant smoke inhalation and related illnesses (especially when cooking indoors), and a large proportion of them are children under the age of five! If you cook with the SCB, you spend much less time standing over an open fire!
It’s also known that this same smoke is the leading cause of blindness in developing countries.
4. Is good for the environment
If fewer trees need to be cut down for firewood and charcoal production, and less water is used for cooking… If air pollution decreases because we only need half the fuels we normally use… Then you can safely say that cooking with the Slow Cooking Bag is good for the environment!
5. Makes food more flavourful
Cooking with wood or charcoal isn’t easy. You can’t just turn it down, so it often cooks too fast, often burning the food, which naturally affects the flavor. In the Slow Cooking Bag, food has all the time it needs to cook gently and never burns. All the flavor is preserved because everything stays in the pan and nothing can escape through steam.
Really… you have to try it yourself to truly believe it!
6. Saves money
It’s logical that if you have to buy less fuel, you save money. And that’s a real plus, especially when you have to turn over every Ghanaian coin!
But imagine, for example, that women who run their own businesses suddenly have more time to devote to that work, simply because they spend less time cooking and gathering wood. That’s a real payoff! Less water is needed when cooking with the Slow Cooking Bag, so do the math!
Moreover, no more food goes to waste because it’s burnt, and everything can simply be eaten…
That’s a win too!
7. Is more hygienic and the food is healthier
Things are already healthier here in Ghana because it’s more hygienic… A pan safely encased in a Slow Cooking Bag doesn’t give any opportunity for cheeky goats or chickens to steal a piece of the pie. Nor does the everlasting dust get a chance to penetrate. And isn’t it true that nutrients that can’t escape through the steam are simply preserved in the food?
In short, seven excellent reasons to use the Slow Cooking Bag…
Good for people and good for the environment!
