Solar Cookers International was started in 1987 by a unique group of people in the sunny Central Valley of California. To this group of 17 solar cooks, the global need for solar cooking was apparent.
It’s mission is to spread the knowledge about solar cookers all over the world. Since that moment, SCI helped over 30.000 families [...]

Well, if you think you have seen it all, then think again! Did you actually think anybody could have thought of a solar hot dog cooker? No, really!
Such green energy cookers are built for people who usually don’t have another good power source for cooking, so the food cooked there is actually something they actually need, [...]

This question about how to make one good solar oven comes back to me each and every day from people wanting to know more and more about it, even if I have already posted about it.
Let’s see, a few ideas, without going into details:
So, how we can make a solar oven?
First thing you need to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]