A Fresnel Lens cooker that Heats from Below 
I recently modified my Fresnel lens "grill" to heat from below. This allows more conventional cooking than the old version, and is more practical to use....

Wheelbarrow Solar Dehydrator 
I had an expensive hardware purchase recently in the form of a new heavy duty wheelbarrow. My old Galvo gardener's quality wheelbarrow has been showing ...

MIT Solar Grill 
In the August 2011 newsletter of Solar Cookers International, I was struck by a photo of an African woman cooking on a "solar grill", designed by MIT students....

The Colony Follow-Up, Solar Water Pastuerization 
Last February, I helped my next door neighbor (5th grader) with a solar water pasteurization project, using less than $10 worth of materials for the ...

The Colony (Discovery Channel) 
Over the past few weeks, I watched Discovery Channel's show about a post apocalyptic period, called "The Colony". You can find out more about this show ...

Solar Oven Unique Application -- Schoolyard Solar Cooking 
Every year I spend an entire day out in the school yard to teach third graders about solar cooking. My inner city school's main focus is science and ...

Haiti Again! Solar Cooking Success!  
This was a tremendously successful voyage to Haiti.
Not only to install green energy (30 ! Thirty) solar array panels, inverters, batteries which were ...

Solar Cooked Simple Rice 
I don't normally eat rice, but I do have an electric rice cooker that does cook rice, very easily. Today, I decided to take two scoops of rice, place them ...

Brunswick Stew (My Version - Hot Pot Cooker) 
There is a book of recipes that features pictures of cans with plus signs and simple directions. The recipes are designed for men, and I believe the book ...

Solar Brownies - Turbo Time 
I bought a box of Ghiradelli's Double Chocolate with Walnut Brownie Mix. It's 90 degrees in Vegas. I want the brownies but I sure don't want to heat up ...

Power Management 
It may just be my imagination, but the majority of solar cooking enthusiasts appear to be concentrated in the Southwestern US (for we are blessed with ...

Introducing Solar Cooking in Haiti for AAE 
We are a group of volunteer sailors who banded together after the January Earthquake in Haiti. Last year, several boats took several tons of supplies into ...

Solar Cooking Class In Las Vegas 
There's a local non-profit that is looking for environmentally related classes and instructors. I thought about providing a class on solar cooking, and ...

Solar Cooker Science Project 
I mentioned, in a previous story, that my neighbor was looking for a science project idea and knew about my solar cooker hobby. After sitting down and ...

Solar Oven Science Project 
Well, its that time of year, when kids are assigned science projects at school, and if you have a neighbor that cooks with the sun, you go next door to ...

Ideas are Powerful 
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The recent issue of the Solar Cooker Review is available here:

http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrnov10.htm

and ...

Solar Nut roaster for home use 
I am trying to popularize my solar nut roaster made with a picture frame,cardboard box, an aluminum tray and aluminum kitchen foil.[See the description ...

Solar Oven Mathematics 
Jim's post about Solar Oven cooking temperatures:

Solar Cooker Temperature

got me thinking about the Global Sun Oven that I own, and how my reflective-...

Focal Points Made Easy 
I recently posted about finding focal points, and the mathematical method seemed a bit confusing. I decided to explain it all in one simple picture, step-...

Solar Hut 
My experiment with the parabolas continued throughout the weekend (in between football games, of course). Although I had created a set of parabolas that ...

Cocottes for Solar Cooking 
Although many solar cooking enthusiasts use dark, lightweight cookware, I recently came upon several deeply discounted, black cocottes at TJ Maxx, and ...

Going Parabolic 
Over the past few years, I had been experimenting with my solar oven, and recently shared that story. After reviewing the various other products and stories ...

"Far From Home" Made - Solar Cooking in Kuwait 
I am a service member deployed to a base in Kuwait. Aside from a bbq grill there are no facilities for soldiers to prepare a meal for themselves and as ...

Homemade Solar Cooker/Smores 
I am an aide at a private Elementary School, Grades Pre-K through 8th Grades. The class that I assist with is Grade 4, which consists of 9 and 10 year ...

A Fresnel Lens Solar Grill 
My introduction to solar cooking began about two years ago, with the goal of boiling water to make my morning coffee. I started off with a home made parabolic ...

GSO Insert Modification  Not rated yet
I've been using a home-made reflective insert with my GSO for over a year, and it has helped guarantee that my oven's my cooking temperatures will be sufficient ...

Small Window for Solar Cooking  Not rated yet
If you know about sun angles, you know that today is one of the shortest day-times of the year. While some prepare for the End of the World by collecting ...

Solar Penne Pasta  Not rated yet
In the past, I have made baked ziti in my Global Sun Oven by simply covering pasta with a 50/50 mixture of water/canned tomato sauce, to a level just ...

Solar Panel Cooker Construction 2 of 2  Not rated yet
Steps 5 and 6 of my construction method.

Solar Panel Cooker Construction 1 of 2  Not rated yet
This is my method of constructing solar panel cookers around my pot. Building the ASSC taught me a great deal. My method allows for using any pot size,...

Indoor Cooking with the GSO  Not rated yet
I've always wondered about whether it was possible to cook with a GSO inside the house.

Solar Cooking indoors

Someone already did!
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Hot Pot Cooker With Cobalt Colored Dish  Not rated yet
I think there are a lot of people who wonder if they can use alternative setups with their Hot Pot Cooker reflector panel, and I am one of them. Today'...

My Panel Cooker vs. Hotpot Cooker  Not rated yet
First, let me start off by saying that I really like the Hotpot Solar Cooker. If you've ever read reviews on this product on other sites, please do:

Hot ...

Solar Oven Worth Revisiting  Not rated yet
There's a web page that I read now and then, which chronicles the building of a sun oven. The writer, and web page owner, did a great job walking the casual ...

Prototypes  Not rated yet
As you can see from the first photo, the ability to create a prototype of a solar panel cooker, is as easy as saving this photo, and printing it to a ...

Endless Tinkering (with solar cookers)  Not rated yet
I have a cocotte that is 8 1/2" wide (see picture), and I really like its size. When I'm solar cooking a single meal, it's perfect. Last year, when I first ...

Thanksgiving (solar cooked day after)  Not rated yet
This story was one that I had previously shared with the inventor of the ASSC, Jim LaJoie.

We were having our family Thanksgiving celebration at my ...

Perfecting the $5 Parabola (Part 2 of 2)  Not rated yet
Now we're at the point where I tested the focal point, in the dark, with the Sun being simulated by a high powered flashlight.

The first picture shows ...

Perfecting the $5 Parabola (Part 1 of 2)  Not rated yet
Last week, I took the two parabolas that I had built, and detailed in a previous submission to this site

http://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com/...

My Husbands Homemade Solar Oven  Not rated yet
Last summer my husband decided to try making a solar oven for me, this because he felt like they were too expensive to purchase. He built it using a wooden ...

My Solar Cooking Journey To Date  Not rated yet
When I was in ninth grade I tried to make the Parabolic cooker. I used the plans in the book “Solar Science Projects" (formerly "Fun with the Sun"...

Homemade solar cooker/oven and my results  Not rated yet
Solar Cooking -- Catching the Spark

I became interested in solar cooking - or at least the idea of solar cooking - quite a few years ago. Time passed ...

“It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the pavement."  Not rated yet
“It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the pavement!”, someone had said to me in the passing trivialities on a very hot day. That little statement buzzed ...