Solar Powered Oven

Go Green with a Solar Cooker

A Solar Powered Oven cooks food to a delectable tenderness using only the sun as it's power source. Make your own solar cooker or buy a ready made model and go green in your back yard.

Solar Ovens

It's environmentally friendly, it's inexpensive, its fun, it keeps the kitchen cool and teaches the kids and grandkids about alternative energy.

It's a solar oven and it uses the energy of the sun to cook almost any type of food.

A Solar Cooker makes use of some simple passive solar principles and the concentrated power of the sun to cook complete meals or simple snacks.

Using a highly reflective surface inside an insulated box or enclosure, a solar oven concentrates the heat of the sun and directs it toward the food. The food is placed in dark pots for cooking. The highly concentrated heat inside the box is absorbed into the dark pot, cooking the contents inside.

Simply keep the oven directed toward sunlight and it'll cook away creating no harmful emissions

Advantages of Solar Powered Ovens

• They're inexpensive to make or to buy.
• You can cook pretty much anything you'd cook in a conventional oven.
• When using a solar oven you pay zero for power and the earth doesn't pay either.
• Put your food in and go have fun for a few hours. when you come back it'll be ready.
• Solar powered ovens can be used anywhere where the sun shines. Even at a remote cottage or wilderness getaway where there's no power you can have oven cooked comfort food.
• This is a great way to get the kids or grandkids involved in cooking and the environment.
• Boil water in remote areas to ensure it's safe to drink.

Here are some answers to questions that are commonly asked about solar powered ovens.

Q ~ How long does it take for a solar powered oven to cook a meal?

A ~ Cooking times vary more with solar powered ovens than with conventional ovens. If the conditions are perfect a solar oven can cook a meal in the same amount of time as conventional cooking means. When the sun has less strength cooking times are generally longer.

Q ~ Can you burn a meal in a solar oven?

A ~ Generally, No. Unless you leave it for days. Also, food doesn't overcook.

Q ~ Can children use a solar cooker?

A ~ As with any oven, the contents get very hot (otherwise, what would be the point). Children should be supervised when removing the cooked food from the oven.

Q ~ Can I make my own solar cooker?

A ~ Absolutely, and it makes a great family project. There are plans available to make anything from a meal sized oven to a hot dog cooker. The materials are easy to acquire - you probably already have most of them on hand.

Q ~ Can I buy a solar oven?

A ~ You can, and they usually cost less than $200.00. They're available online.

Q ~ Is there a downside to solar powered ovens?

A ~ Well, they are kind of particular about working only when the sun shines. Oh yeah, they're not really pretty either.

Whether you buy or make your solar cooker they are a benefit to you and to the environment. Able to recover costs in less than a year, if you're looking for cheap solar power options that make a difference, look no further.

~ Global Sun Oven ~



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