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Ecologically friendly and saves money too!

by sadcatowner ^Pro @ 2008-06-30 – 14:42:47

Yesterday I cooked my first solar powered meal.
Today I cooked my second :

Here's my solar cooked moussaka with feta cheese topping.

I left it in the solar cooker for about three hours and placed teflon non stick pan liner on top to try and increase the heat absorption properties as well as protect the food from the sun bleaching effect I got with my stuffed vegetables yesterday.

It worked and an added bonus was that the cheese topping actually browned and crisped!!!

I'm going to try and cook some chicken legs tomorrow.
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- Kernow Crusader
- 2008-07-01 @ 14:00:31
Hopefully you got food poisoning from the chicken and now you will no longer be able to single-handedly kill off yet another British business. GO POWERCATS.
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- sadcatowner ^Pro
- 2008-07-01 @ 16:40:30
Hello Kernow Crusader,

welcome to the blog. I wish you well as I wish Powercats well.

All we have ever wanted was for our problems to be treated with respect and responded to properly.

If you work for Powercats you will know the truth of this. If you don't work for them then I understand how you feel as you do not have the full facts at your disposal.

We have been lied about online and we have restrained ourselves because we don't go in for hatchet jobs.

We are working hard for a resolution that would mean that Powercats could walk away having done the right thing without it costing them too much to do so.

Comments such as yours do them no favours at all. I have never suggested that they were in any way in any danger of being killed off.

Do you know something I don't?
- - Kernow Crusader
  - 2008-07-02 @ 12:33:49
  No, I do NOT work for Powercats.
  I see quite a few of them around the waters where I live, it's a great family boat and being Cornish, strongly support all Cornish businesses.
  It seems odd that you did not sea trial the vessel before you took possession, especially knowing how difficult it would be to get any problems sorted out.
  I find it hard to believe that this small company would take the attitude you claim they are taking . They are not stupid and I should imagine they could do without this crusade of yours. Had your demands been reasonable then I think it would have been sorted by now. I would not allow you to dictate to me in the same way I presume they are not. Life is about give and take and if you genuinely want a successful resolution you should remember that. GO POWERCATS.
  - - sadcatowner ^Pro
    - 2008-07-02 @ 14:45:43
    Kernow Crusader
    2008-07-02 @ 12:33:49
    No, I do NOT work for Powercats.
    
    [OK - thanks for the information but no need to shout ]
    
    I see quite a few of them around the waters where I live, it's a great family boat
    
    [I also think the Powercat is a great family boat. I bought one because I agree with you on that. The Powercat as described on the catalogue and as demonstrated to us on numerous occasions is fantastic. Otherwise we would not have paid £37,000 plus in cash for one. As I said before the sum total of our family savings. I don't see how much more of a vote of confidence and support we could have given it.]
    
    and being Cornish, strongly support all Cornish businesses.
    
    [This is a perfectly understandable point of view. However just because a business is Cornish doesn't automatically make it right in every respect.]
    
    It seems odd that you did not sea trial the vessel before you took possession, especially knowing how difficult it would be to get any problems sorted out.
    
    [It seemed very odd to us too on hindsight. We had made an appointment to sea trial it before taking it away and arrived in Cornwall expecting to find it in the water ready to go out in. However it was in the workshop and we were told that it was very difficult to put it in the water as the tides were wrong. Also that it would 'get it dirty' and that there was no need as there was a demonstrator in the harbour waiting to take us out.
    
    We had brought the founder of a sailing charity with us who was interested in the Powercats as a potential safety boat and was considering buying 3 or 4 of them. He wanted to sea trial ours but was dissuaded from that.
    
    My husband and myself had never bought any kind of boat before and we were unfamiliar with the processes involved. We paid for the boat upfront and in advance with no 'hold backs' which shows you just how unfamiliar we were. There was no credit involved - just cold hard cash which we paid like little lambs well in advance of collection.
    
    We were told by Powercats that there would be no need to get any problems sorted out as 'their boats were well made and reliable'. We trusted them. We were obviously idiots.]
    
    I find it hard to believe that this small company would take the attitude you claim they are taking .
    
    [If you find it hard to believe - imagine how hard we found it to believe. It is nevertheless entirely true and can be backed up with documentation to prove it, emails and letters - and we are perfectly prepared to go to court - if that is necessary.]
    
    They are not stupid and I should imagine they could do without this crusade of yours.
    
    [I couldn't comment on this, other than to say I have no idea why they have behaved the way they have done]
    
    Had your demands been reasonable then I think it would have been sorted by now.
    
    [Our first 'demands' were simple requests to find out how we were supposed to deal with the numerous screw points sticking through into the cuddy area which were dangerous and for spares and an allan key and a question as to how we were supposed to deal with a bimini that fell apart and was made up of imperial fittings in a metric country and for which we had no spares. We were pleasant and co-operative. We have many emails documenting the time scale involved, which eventually resulted in us having to ask them to pay storage for the bimini and frame (which was admitted eventually as being useless to us) and asking them please to respond so we would not have to involve trading standards.
    
    In the time it took them to respond I had asked trading standards for basic advice - but not made a 'complaint' as such.
    
    Bear in mind that the issue of the screws were still not in any way resolved at that point.
    
    We had therefore already been messed about on the bimini and frame and screws issue before we had the power failure.
    
    This was caused by two things - the fuse to the accessory socket being 15 Amps while the fuses to the rest of the electrics being 10 Amps, and by the fact that a small plastic packet of 'fixings' presumably which came packed in the socket were still stuffed in there unseen by us.
    
    When the accessory (third party yes, untested no) was plugged in, in darkness - physics and electricity followed their laws and we had a problem.]
    
    I would not allow you to dictate to me in the same way I presume they are not.
    
    [Asking for a refund for an item which has been misrepresented - is not dictating to anyone. It is not reasonable to take £37,000 or more from someone, then mess them around to the point where they cannot have faith in you providing them with any sort of customer service and then expect them to just calmly put up with it.]
    
    Life is about give and take and if you genuinely want a successful resolution you should remember that.
    
    [That is why we have GIVEN them a very reasonable offer of settlement. I hope they TAKE it, like they happily took our £37,000 plus)
    
    GO POWERCATS.
    - - sadcatowner ^Pro
      - 2008-07-02 @ 14:59:19
      I would just say Kernow Crusader that I am sure you mean well. But if you genuinely have Powercats best interests at heart you would serve them better by not continuing to 'pick at scabs' at this stage.
      
      I am sure they would tell you 'least said soonest mended'
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