Aluminum Roasting pan solar cooker

[reivaj077]

Great ideas and vids,..thanks.

[speckspeck]

you KNOW YOU CAN COOK THINGS LIKE BAKED POTATOES BEFOREHAND AND THEN ALL YOU NEED DO IS MAKE THEM HOT AGAIN AND NOT WAIT FOR AN HOUR FOR THEM TO ROAST

[Andrew0103]

cool

[abaneyone]

Thanks! You make it all look so easy! Why did you put the pot in the turkey roasting bag? Is it just to keep more heat in? Also, do you have to use it? Would your food cook anyway even if you did not use the bag? Your channel makes me want to make my own solar ovens just to show everyone that it can in-fact be done!

[cri8tor]

Thank you for the great video.

[trailkeeper]

A good vid. I've been thinking about solar ovens.

[tinafiedler1]

Hi, QUESTION: If I want to cook something, say, at 360 degrees Fahrenheit, how do you use your solar cooker to do that?

[solarcookingnut]

It depends on the food. If its a bread that requires a high heat to puff up quickly, you need a hotter oven, which is possible with more reflectors, the more reflectors, the more high temps you get. If its meats, leave in longer, like an hour or more, depending on the thickness of the meat, casseroles just leave them in the oven an hour or so longer if your temps are 200-250.

[solarcookingnut]

different ovens and cookers have different temps. I always encourage folks to build several kinds of cookers and ovens so they can use certain ones for certain foods and learn the nature of each oven. Ovens with lower temps, one needs to cut meats thinner, and pour less batter into pans making thinner cakes and breads so they won't be doughy in the middle. You can cook just about anything in solar ovens, you just have to be patient, and learn your ovens cooking nature.

[fiberdrunk]

I love your solar oven videos! I'm a newbie at this, and I've really learned a lot from you.  Thanks so much for sharing!

[cowboyswami]

Thanks! the simplest plan I've seen. I bought a book a few years back and made a plywood, insulated, glass topped, reflector sided oven - and still it doesn't always cook the rice & beans fully.

One question - do you have to turn the oven to keep it in the sun?

God bless!

[solarcookingnut]

I just cooked some beef kielbasa in water today, and it was simmering really well.

Yes, I usually re-aim once an hour. I usually set it ahead of the sun a bit so that the focal point will go completely across. This one really can brown the tops of food well. It does a great job on rice and beans, but you tend to have to make sure the rice don't get overcooked on top. It's cheap, and does the job well.

[Thinkfest]

Make a web page that shows how you made your cooker and what you cook with it, and you could win three hundred dollars U.S.! Please enter my solar cooking web page contest. Due date is October 20, 2008. For more info, Google for manda solar cooking contest

[salpi23]

That is awesome. gonna give it a try..

[vocalbrush]

so awesome! i was going to buy a solar cooker but they're expensive and im broke. I could literally make one of these tomorrow at no cost:D dying to try it, great channel!

[solarcookingnut]

THANK YOU! It's simple and easy and even people of lowest income can put one of these together. It's a great little cooker.

Thanks for your comment!

[bloggycreek]

Very cool!

[solarcookingnut]

Thank you! I hope you make one and try it out.

[achsofromm]

Very good. I wondered about doing this. This is the simpliest and smallest solar oven I've seen. I like how you have wrapped the sides around to give more reflection. That pan shape looks ideal too. If you wanted, it seems like you could extend the reflectors all the way around, but make it shorter and a slightly less-steep angle on side toward the sun, so as to not block it and also give room to place and remove food. I can't wait to try one myself. Thanks

[solarcookingnut]

Hi!

The taller the reflector, the hotter the temps will be. I stumbled upoon this design as I was making my nesco oven. I have tried shorter reflectors over the past few years, and they just don't put out the heat like taller ones do. I have been looking for the more true oval shapped pans but can't seem to find them, but this one workes great. Hope you do try it soon, its a winner with me, and so cheap!

[cbugglin]

WOW! Very nice! This is so different than I have seen so far! SO simple I can't beleive my eyes! I am on my way to the dollar store now! LOL

[windev69]

windev 69

could you give some approximate cooking times for some foods prepared in this cooker?

[solarcookingnut]

depending on temperatures achieved. You can cook rice in about 1-2 hours, depending on the intensity of the sun. solar cooking is slower cooking. This cooker can achieve 200 to 250 degrees. Breads, cakes or bisquits can be cooked in an hour sometimes less. Once you do your own cooking, you will be able to get a feel for how long with each food.

[windev69]

how long does the aluminum cooker take to cook any food?

[99cachorro]

simple and cheap. a very sustainable way of cooking. Ive canned lots of fruit with my solar box cooker and cooked buckets of beans and rice. I love them. Your cooker is much easier to make that most people could utilize. well done

[solarcookingnut]

Thank you for your comment! I do my best to try to find the most easy and inexpensive ways to get people interested in solar cooking. It would be great to see a video of you canning your fruit in your oven. Hope you consider it.

[99cachorro]

ok, i'll give it a try next end of summer. I use a big slope box style with double glass. It's on wheels to move around.  It can hold up to 14 or so quarts and a few half gallon jars at once. take care.