Globally, 3 billion people rely on solid fuels to cook, causing serious environmental and health issues which affects women and children. Every year, smoke inhalation from these fires and indoor air pollution kills over 4 million people and sickens many others.
The Wonderbag was developed to ease the social, economic and environmental impacts of these circumstances by providing them with a simple cooking device.
Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary, non-electric heat retention cooker. It continues to cook food that has been brought to the boil by conventional methods/on a stove or fire for up to 12 hours without the use of additional electricity or heat.
There is no smoke inhalation especially for those that make use of firewood and charcoal.
Cooking in the wonderbag keeps the moisture inside your food, and nutrients don’t boil away promoting healthy food.
Wonderbag uses less water, food doesn’t burn and neither should you or your family.
Please note:before placing the pot into the wonderbag, make sure you use the right size of pot for the amount of food you wish to cook. Use only copper, steel, aluminium, enamelled cast iron, cast iron and glassware pots.
If you use cast iron, clay or ceramic, you must put a stand under the pot (inside the bag) to avoid damaging the fabric from the heat of the bag.
In addition, do not place lukewarm food in the wonderbag.
Wonderbag is cost effective and good for the environment.
It doubles up as a cooler box, to keep your groceries cold and frozen.
| Type of Food | Boil Time | Wonderbag Time |
| Chicken and meat on the bone | 15-30 minutes | At least 2 hours (the longer the more tender) |
| Boneless/skinless chicken and meat | 10-15 minutes | At least 1 hour (the longer the more tender) |
| Rice (white, brown) | 5 minutes | At least 45 minutes |
| Pre-soaked dried beans | 15 minutes | Small beans: 2-3 hours Large beans: 4-5 hours |
| Root vegetables | 15 minutes | At least 1 hour |
Note: salt your meat a day in advance of cooking to get the meat tender and moist.
Pre-cook your beans in the Wonderbag. Do not put salt into your pre-soaked dried beans until after they have completed cooking. Only open your Wonderbag when you are ready to serve to avoid losing any heat.
Below is a video to show you how it works and please follow the link for more details.
http://www.wonderbagworld.com/