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The Hay Box: How Wartime Kitchens Cooked a Stew With the Stove Turned Off

In 1940s Britain, the Ministry of Food urged households to save fuel with a plain wooden crate packed tight with hay. You brought your stew to a full, rolling boil for several minutes, then lifted the pot straight into its nest of hay and closed the lid. The heat had nowhere to go, so the food kept cooking for hours on its own. The real trick, though, wasn't the hay at all. It was how you packed it, and the one mistake most people made with the

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