Solar Oven - Global Sun Oven by Self Reliance Guy

[danthman114]

lol, you need to watch men who stare at goats... at the end of the day in the middle east he had raw hamburgers. he ended up kicking his...

[megatwingo]

Very nice invention, this oven! Thumbs up!

[mb2400]

Can you use anything else besides the aluminum? I do not like to use this metal.

[SaviourSole]

I've heard people get a plastic taste in their food with this oven... what say you?

[SelfRelianceGuy]

I have not experienced this with our sun oven. We have cooked bread, cake, brownies, and veggies in it. I cannot speak for others. I would be interested if anybody else does have this problem.

[WastedPo]

I was thinking about the apparent tendency of this oven to "trap moisture." Sometimes you would probably not want that type of cooking. I wonder if you could generate adequate temperatures if you left the plastic door open during cooking.

[SelfRelianceGuy]

@WastedPo

Unfortunately this is not the case. The door has to be closed and sealed to generate sufficient temperatures to bake. With the door open, I have not been able to get the inside temp to go higher than 15 to 15 degrees above the outside temperature. You can add natural desiccant to the inside of the oven which will absorb some moisture, but that is about it from my experience.

[WastedPo]

@SelfRelianceGuy, thank you for the response.

I just have one more question (maybe you don't know this off the top of your head). I was reading up on various solar ovens and I guess the global is good because it has more height space. But can a standard 9x13 inch pan fit in it?

[blckjade05]

have you measured the temp of the over without the reflector panels vs. with the panels to tell the tempature generation difference?

[curt123]

The inside is aluminum, the door is glass.

[SelfRelianceGuy]

Apia6000, these are highly polished metal reflectors.

[apia6000]

from what these reflectors are made of? Are they metallic or plastic surfaces? Thank you.

[Braveluck]

I use this exact model of sun oven. It's great. It takes a little practice, but I have great success now.

I bake brownies and zucchini bread.

I bake white bread -- comes out wonderful with a light brown crust that is delicate.

It's also great for cooking up some pork like for pulled pork. It really provides the "low and slow" that pork thrives on. Sure, not quite as tasty as good BBQ, but close, and it's nice to get something almost as good without lighting a fire.

[dkw12002]

That self-leveling tray is simple, ingenious and important for cooking liquidy dishes that fill up the cookware. I spill things when I try to face the sun with panel cookers or homemade box ovens. I can use my Global Sun Ovens on marginal days where my panel cookers would not get the job finished....like today in S. Central Texas. We have a lot of these partly to mostly cloudy days. Cooking oat groats today. I'm only up to 225 F with the clouds, but a panel cooker would be more like 150 F.

[solarcookingnut]

and anytime you are around reflectors on solar ovens you MUST wear sunglasses! You need to be very careful not to get flashed by the reflectors.

[bg0821]

nice, I made an oven same design. I have my vid on you tube now, that oven there reaches 360 to 400 f. on a full sun day. I saw 330 with mine. The reflectors are so light and easily folded down on that convienent. I used mirrors on mine they have some weight but bottom line is, its fun to cook with the sun!!!!!!! Ps. too bad they didnt come with a self sun tracking device to follow the sun no adjusting to do.

[DKMeng]

yea my dad redesign this oven back in the late 80s and early 90s for burns original design that is 1 of the models my dad made for burns company