Archive for the ‘Solar oven’ Category

 

The solar pop corn cooker? Is there any?

October 9th, 2009

I was speaking a few days ago about a solar hot dog cooker. And in the previous article about Africa, also. However, I have never spoken so far about a solar pop corn cooker. Is there any?
Well, as unbelievable it may seem, there is and it is working fine!  I have an example, of course, [...]

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Why solar ovens are mostly used in Africa

October 9th, 2009

It is no wonder that most solar cookers are used in Africa. The reasons are simple: first because the sun there is very good for these activities that requires solar power. The second reason is that the quality of life is not great in this part of the world and people actually need to cook [...]

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A few good books about solar cooking

October 8th, 2009

Because I speak here about cooking with solar power and I give recipes here and there, I thought about publishing here a good list of books on this topic. So I went to Amazon and made a small but good selection of books that you might read if you are really passionate about the topic.
Let’s [...]

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The 3 ways people use solar cookers. How do you use it?

October 6th, 2009

Solar cookers are what you can call a green product, 100% because they use the energy provided by the sun in order to cook food in a healthy way, with zero consumption of traditional energy.
Depending on where they are used, solar cookers are a necessity, a choice or a fun item, depending on where you [...]

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Hot to make a $75.000 solar cooker from a cardboard box

October 5th, 2009

A lot of people ask about how to make a solar cooker and the question is usually related to how to make it starting from a pair of cardboard boxes. I think this is related to that guy who earned $75.000 for a homemade solar cooker that costs $7.
That’s a victory for no matter who, no [...]

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Global Sun Oven

October 3rd, 2009

Global Sun Oven has been designed to meet up the needs of a family with 6 up to 8 members and feed them all. It is built by Sun Ovens International. It is called an oven, but actually it is more than this, since food can be boiled, steamed, roasted or baked at cooking temperatures [...]

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Where solar cooker works

October 3rd, 2009

A lot of people want to know where solar cookers work, in what countries, so they don’t struggle with building one and then see it doesn’t work at all. Well, the fact is that it doesn’t work in every country on this Earth, this is a known fact. It works in the countries and in [...]

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“Minimum” Solar Box Cooker

October 3rd, 2009

Minimum Solar Box Cookers is the easiest box sun oven to build. Period.
It is made of 2 cardboard boxes that you put one inside the other, an aluminium foil and a glass of the size of it, to put is on top, because heat is concentrated better behind a glass window. Now don’t you think that Minimum Solar [...]

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Hybrid solar oven? What’s that?

October 2nd, 2009

With a hybrid sun oven, the weather doesn’t matter
Well, pretty simple: the hybrid solar oven is a sun cooker with regular power backup source. Meaning that if the sun goes out, you won’t be starving. Period.
The idea is good and you must agree that they had their reasons when they built that solar oven this way. [...]

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Solar cooker recipes: Pot Roast

October 2nd, 2009

OK, you could see that post about solar cooker recipes coming from the moment you realized this site is about solar cookers and sun cooking. If you cook anything, even with the sun, you need recipes, that’s for sure.
Honestly speaking, cooking with the sun is not such an old occupation (but not that new also, [...]

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