Archive for September, 2009

 

Can a solar cooker be dangerous?

September 30th, 2009

Good question! And the answer is YES! As any cooker, a solar one can be dangerous. Not in a “usual way”, you should not be afraid, of course, of gas leaking or blowing up, because there is nothing like this, but the you should not look at it directly, since it focuses the light in a [...]

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Homemade solar cooker

September 30th, 2009

Well, a homemade solar cooker, that’s one thing you will be able to build in no time! I was telling you earlier that it takes a high school student and a couple of materials you have around the house to build one, so there is no much stress about it, which is actually good because [...]

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Heating leftovers in a solar cooker

September 30th, 2009

I liked the demonstration of this guy, so I said to show it to you as well. He had some leftovers and heated them using the solar cooker. Pretty wild demonstration.
And, as he says, there’s no better way to heat your leftover than with a solar cooker! It is not as fast as with a [...]

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Who built the first solar cooker? And when?

September 28th, 2009

The first solar cooker was invented long ago
Well, as incredible as it may seem, the first sun powered cooker was built in 1767 by Horace de Saussure, one of Europe’s foremost naturalists of the period.
Other scientists of the same period struggled to work with mirrors in order to focus the temperature of the sun, but Horace de [...]

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Fun-Panel Solar cooker, a better version?

September 28th, 2009

The Fun-Panel Solar cooker is an improved version of the one made from a Windshield shade and of the funnel oven. The fun-panel takes the advantages of the funnel version and eliminates the disadvantages. Pretty convenient, I would say!
This is made from a box that you cut and put together again, plus a aluminium foil. [...]

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Windshield shade solar cooker

September 28th, 2009

When I said that building a solar cooker is not hard, and you can actually do it with the materials you have around the house, I was not kidding, and the “house” can be extended to “car” also since this it is built from a windshield shade. Pretty easy to build, if you think that [...]

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The advantages of using CooKit solar oven

September 27th, 2009

As with almost every solar oven out there, CooKit comes with some great advantages!
Let’s see the advantages of using a solar oven
I was already saying this, but it is worth saying it again: using CooKit saves 4 times the money used to purchase it, in fuel wood, each year. Using CooKit 3 times per week [...]

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CooKit, one of the most popular solar ovens

September 27th, 2009

I was speaking in a previous article about the types of solar cookers available out there.
The first type that I mentioned was the panel type, in a shape of a semi-circular open area. This type proves to be very effective and very, very popular.
CooKit is, I think, the most popular among the ones in this [...]

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How many types of solar cookers are out there?

September 27th, 2009

Now, if you think about it, there are many types of solar cookers, as many as we can imagine, ebcause anybody can build one, with virtually whatever he has around the house.
But there are manufacturers that build these cookers in an organized way, planned, testing what they build, so the results are much better, even [...]

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Solar cookers manufacturers and vendors

September 26th, 2009

For anything in this world there is somebody willing to provide services. This is the very case with solar cookers, there are a lot of companies that produce these wonderful sun powered cooking machines. The interesting thing is that they are not themselves in areas where the sun is very powerful, but they make such [...]

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