Ironing shirts, cooking food, operating DC machinery with just solar energy with no batteries, no inverter !

 At your risk. Take all safety precautions. electricity can kill.

This is what my friend Dimcap who is a captain told me.

He had bought a few big (door size) solar panels each having an open circuit voltage at full sunshine of 36V.

He would experiment connecting directly to them things that can operate with DC, for example ironing iron, electric heating stove, electric drill (with carbon brushes).

So far he has destroyed his fridge.

But he could iron his shirts with just 2 solar panels connected in series, and with just 1 solar panel by waiting for about 8 minutes for the ironing iron to warm up.

He boiled water etc.

He operates tools such as a drill with much less than 220 volts DC with the difference of lower turns per minute.

If what he is doing takes off there may be a shift to the old debate AC vs DC.

At your risk. DC can kill in case of accident easier than AC.

P.S.

Cooking food can of course be done with no solar panels by using a Sun Oven.

Water heating for shower etc can be done with no solar panels by using a solar water heater.