Subject: [Homestead] Home business---mud oven(s) on a trailer pizzas
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:36:02 -0800
Home Business schtick again---food concessions always do well at flea
markets, festivals, public beaches. They have to be portable of
course---on a four-wheel farm wagon chassis is a good way to go---good
idea to have e;ectric brakes on rear axle which set when a vehicle is
disconnected.
Nothing---absolutely nothing is cheaper than mud---put a couple adobe
ovens on the wagon, fire them up early so they are at baking temperature
when you pull into your display area, and be ready to make pizzas. They
only take about fifteen minutes to bake. Something to drink is probably
a necessity too---maybe lemonade in an insulated barrel. If you make a
bunch of money, you can branch out with some kind of softserve ice
cream---like the Amish posting somewhere here, with a make-and-break
engine for crowd-drawing noise as it turns an oversize White Mountain
freezer---or several. Store your pre-packaged pizza ingredients in the
ice cube/ice flake barrel you need to put in the White Mountain
freezer---get dual use from the ice.
http://www.justvegetablerecipes.com/veg-zucc0010.shtml
(nothing grows more profusely or cheaply as zucchini---fine as a pizza
ingredient along with the obligatory cheeses, mozzarella the most
common, thinly-sliced sausage for visual, not taste-effect, and forget
about any reference to those nasty and too-expensive Kraft wrapped
single-slice tasteless, poor-textured cheese.)
http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/2544.html
(eggplant and tomato pizza---do add cheese(s). I like eggplant
texture better than zucchine, but of course eggplants are not as quick
to mature, or as productive as the wildly prolific zucchini plants.)
http://www.amishmaid.com/Equipment.htm
(repost of the Amish make-and-break engine-powered ice cream maker on
a four-wheel trailer.
You would need an insulated bag or box to hold ice cubes or flakes, and
a saltwater collection tank---flea markets, festivals etc., would not
appreciate you allowing melted and salted icewater to run all over the
street or grass.)
http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/mbsteam.htm
(commercially availablw now from Mike Brown, compact two-cylinder
steam engine puts out 1500 watts of electricity, or runs mechanical
ice-cream maker---maybe smaoo softserve ice-cream machine---have to look
them up on Internet)
http://www.matteranenergy.us/progress_update.htm
(significant improvement, motorless working fluid injection and
low-temp 160 degree working fluid---improves woodfired operation, and
makes solar concentrator low cost)
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=80812
(the old Audel books and ICS, International Correspondence School
texts are still valid, clearly written, easy to understand on steam,
other mechanical, electrical topics--available from e-Bay or Lindsay
Publications,
http://www.starspin.com/stirlings/jimd6.html
(2.5 hp. Jim Dandy #6 Stirling engine---one of the pictures shows the
wood firebox beneath the engine. For larger engines you'd have to go to
steam for external combustion, but 2.5 hp in Stirling configuration
could be useful, and you can leave a Stirling unattended without worry.
Not sure I would do that with a steam engine. A steam monotube boiler
is safe compared to firetube type, but a leaky monotube can still kill
you) Price not shown on the website, but I wrote for it, will post it
when I get an answer.)
http://www.ambergriscaye.com/BzLibrary/trust393.html
(steam engines already a necessity in Belize---and cane juice ethanol
or fermented cane juice turned to vinegar, mixed with cow patty soup to
make methane---look up Peter Singfield on net and various energy groups
to which he belongs.)
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/goebel43.html
(Tiny Power steam engines, kits, by Skip Goebel---great monotube diagram)
[Homestead] Home business---mud oven(s) on a trailer pizzas,
Tvoivozhd, 11/13/2004