Sarah Collins - grew up in the East Coast of South Africa

In 2008 South Africa suffered power cuts

Sarah Collins frustrated with half-cooked dinners remembered he grandma surrounding
her hot pans with couch cushions to keep them warm
She tried it and it worked!
She thought about the millions of families in developing countries that cook by burning
Kerosene, paraffin and/or wood.
These stoves and fires are polluting, making homes too smoky to breathe in, causes
house fires, burns children and causes serious illnesses.
Sarah decided to test this idea
Moshy Mathe, a good friend of Sarahs sewed the very first Wonderbag stuffed with
recycled polystyrene beads
It was then tested in labs, food was heated up to boiling point then transferred into the
Wonderbag for a few hours and voila! A perfectly cooked meal
Since 2008 the Wonderbag has been Sarahs passion and purpose
It took 5 years of trial, error and dogged determination to get the Wonderbag to where it
is now
Moshy Mathe
Sarah Collins

The Wonderbag doesnt use conduction, convection or radiation. The Wonderbag is an
insulator of heat. The polystyrene foam balls used in the Wonderbag creates great insulation.
You bring your food up to boiling point in preferably a metal cooking pot because metal is a
good conductor; place your pot in the Wonderbag and it will cook your food for up to 6
hours and keep it warm for up to 12 hours.
Uses up tons of wood and destroys forests
Polluting the environment with smoke
Hazardous for children
Needs womens full attention



Takes a long time
You still need some sort of energy source
to bring the food up to boiling point


Faster to cook food
A reliable but depleting energy source


Frees up time for other chores
Safe to use around children
Doesnt need constant full attention
Uses less external energy
Cheap to buy and use
Contact us
South Africa : Head Office

Telephone us on +27 31 536 8220

Registered Agents
JHB SA - Treasure Msibi
JHB SA- Sarah Carmichael
JHB SA - Josephine Pswrayi & Evelyn Senna
Polokwane SA - Shaheen Omar
Cape Town SA - Peter Sharples

Mail Online. n.d. 27 March 2014.

Wonderbag. 2009. 27 March 2014.