“Monday was always laundry day at our house....” Thus was born red beans and rice down south. Cook them red beans all day long with some sausage and dinner time on Monday night was awesome. LOL!
Less than 1% and it costs probably 10x as much. Solar is not the answer on a large scale; its ok for gate openers and off the grid lighting. The problem is solar energy is not dense enough for routine use and then there’s the storage problem. Geothermal has real possibilities I think.
We lived in Kansas so our Monday night dinner was ham hocks and navy beans which my mom made in a pressure cooker on Sunday evening after the beans soaked all day Sunday. Cornbread baked in a wood fired oven in a cast iron skillet completed the meal. Leftover beans were used for sandwiches on Tuesday for my dad who took his lunch every day and for my school lunch. Am sure we all contributed our fair share to global warming. LOL.
Never had or knew red beans and rice existed until we went to Louisiana years and years later. Wonderful stuff! We have this dish for dinner with sausage at least once every two weeks.