Solar Cookers: The Pizza Box Solar Oven - This works?

[buttercup637]

this is a lil confusing

[strive4impact]

@buttercup637 What did you find confusing?

[strive4impact]

@buttercup637 What did you find confusing?

[GOP4USA]

Could have done without the first 1:30.

[strive4impact]

@GOP4USA Thank-you for your feedback. These were made for a contest, which was the reason for the intro.

[Emogotswagger]

Thanks, helped me for my Project at school with Pizza =D

[strive4impact]

@Emogotswagger You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.

[ohvnaq]

this music is so addictive i keep longing for a break during the video to hear it!

[strive4impact]

@ohvnaq I'm pretty sure I got it for free from Incompetech. Glad you enjoyed!

[haiderrizvi8]

thank you so much! this was a great video and really helped me out i had to make one for school

[strive4impact]

@haiderrizvi8 You're very welcome. Thank-you for commenting. Can you email a picture of your pizza cooker to us green at greenjoyment? Would love to show it on the site.

[smnav18]

this.is.really.helpful!

[strive4impact]

@smnav18 Good. I'm glad you liked it and found it helpful. We've got more videos and ideas on GreenJoyment if you want to come and visit there as well. How did the video help you specifically?

[smnav18]

@strive4impact ok thx!

[ICommentYourLife]

Extremely helpful for my school science project! Seeing this video helped me understand what to do more than reading the ehow article on the same thing. Plus you're funny. Thank you so much!

[strive4impact]

@ICommentYourLife Hey! So great that the video helped you. I messed up in making it, but hopefully the idea came across and combined with your knowledge from ehow, you were able to make your cooker?

[ICommentYourLife]

@strive4impact Yes! My partner and I read over the ehow article, watched your video and made our cooker. In class, we had to go outside, put a ziplock bag full of water and a thermometer inside of the cooker and record the temperature every two minutes. It was a little cloudy that day, the sun was on and off, but our water did go up in temperature, so it ended up being a success! Thanks for making this helpful video.

[strive4impact]

@ICommentYourLife Really glad it was helpful for you. Helps me know that I should be making more with the things I've learned since making this one!

Warmest,

Jonathan

[luvbrownie9924]

this is awesome! thank you so much!

[strive4impact]

@luvbrownie9924  Thanks for your compliment! Glad this was helpful for you!

[Tevdude100]

nice

[strive4impact]

@Tevdude100 Glad it was helpful for you. You should post a video of your pizza box cooker.

[AlexFoShizzle7]

Hi! I Have a question? What would be a good question for a science expiriment but it cant be for example: How to make a solar cooker....because thats a demonstration not a project.... i was thinking to use 3 different solar cookers with different materials but i need a question...Can you help plaese:)????

[strive4impact]

@AlexFoShizzle7 Hi Alex, a couple of years ago we made 3 different solar cookers during solar cooker week on GreenJoyment.

Questions you could test:

Which solar cooker boils water the fastest?

What solar cooker bakes bread the fastest?

What solar cooker gets the hottest?

What solar cooker gets hot quickest?

And a bunch more, but these would be a few ways to have questions (not demonstrations) related to solar cookers.

Sorry for my delayed reply. Completely missed your comment when posted.

[aba2185]

what did you use to hold the top up ? i have a project for school i need to make cookies with a solar oven

[strive4impact]

@aba2185 Great question! I used a wire coat hanger that I cut in the middle and bent so that it would hold up the lid.

:)

[1997littlegirl]

what size was the pizza box

[TheSk8tergamer]

your video is beast it really helped me make my school project so thanks man :)

[strive4impact]

@TheSk8tergamer Really glad it helped you out, and glad you enjoyed it!

[FallenQuiet]

great guide, very to the point and helpful. thanks

[strive4impact]

@FallenQuiet Really glad you liked it and glad it was helpful!

[burkyii]

super 

[strive4impact]

@burkyii Good! Have you made a pizza box cooker yet?

[frugalnanny]

to cool guy!

[strive4impact]

@frugalnanny Glad you liked it.

[micael26193]

can i tape the foil instead of glue

[strive4impact]

@micael26193 Yes, but mylar would work even better than foil.

[micael26193]

will it be better if i use mirror instead of foil

[strive4impact]

@micael26193 Yes, mirrors work better than foil... I recommend a solar funnel cooker using mylar or mirrors instead of this pizza box cooker... it's about good only for heating things up... not really for cooking them. Good for cookies, but that's about it.

[micael26193]

how long does this take

[strive4impact]

@micael26193 Mine never got up above about 150 Fahrenheit... so it could take a long time to cook anything. Really needs to get up above 165 to be safe for cooking all day.

[micael26193]

i won't to do this for my project at skool, but do i need to bring a cooked pizza, or will it cook a pizza

[strive4impact]

@micael26193 You'd do be better to make a different kind of cooker for that project. These will only get up to about 200 Fahrenheit and you really need at least 275 F to bake bread (dough for the pizza)...

[pupustinki]

dude da pizza is cold WTF?

[strive4impact]

@pupustinki it's called a pizza box solar cooker because you use a pizza box to make it, not because it cooks pizza.

To cook pizza, you would need to reach temps of 300F (160ish C) + to bake the bread (crust). If you want to do that with the sun, you will need a solar oven, or a fresnel lens, or at least a parabolic reflector.

[UnoRaza]

When you said "absorb heat" you were more accurate as more of the energy comes from IR than light ranges. We're now making IR photovoltaics that can charge from IR only which is still abundant on cloudy days.

Cool vid!

[msweewaa]

wow

[ChipmunkChic098]

We're doing one in class, and one good idea is to Spray Paint it black and put cd's on the inside, it'll reflect the sunlight straight to the food, the front can be Designed however you want(:

[XxXBubblesXxX123]

I had to make one out of a shoebox

[grandtheftautoking99]

wat bout' insulators--this'll trap heat

wat bout' black paper--black absorbs light

[strive4impact]

My wife says that she'll help me with that tonight. :) Nice to *meet* you thor2sherman. You make a great first impression.

[joe18370]

i would place the pizza box on top of a box,cut the bottom out of the pizza box,and place it on top of a normal box,it makes a good lid to open and close ,and use plexy glass insted of wrape,or use glass

[strive4impact]

@joe18370 Those are very good suggestions. Things I would do in the future as well.

[leonardcarreno]

@joe18370 wouldnt the glass be toxic or rub chemicals on the food?

[strive4impact]

@leonardcarreno The glass be toxic?

[lovelyleelee12]

how long does it take im supposed to do a project i choose this and i have like 30 minutes to bake cookies on this

[strive4impact]

30 minutes will not be enough time. You can demonstrate it getting hot in 30 minutes, but it won't bake cookies in that time frame... at least not in my experience.

[zat90]

i have a competition to make solar cooker.. well the prize only 20$ .. but i only want to be well known in the school.. lol..

[strive4impact]

Good luck with the contest. You should be able to cook more than just pizza with this, but I recommend starting with pizza. Also, please see Greenjoyment for the mistakes I made so you don't do the same.

Enjoy!

Jonathan

[phantomhockeyzero]

talking w/ ur mouthful is rude!!!XD

[strive4impact]

Thanks for letting me know. Was supposed to be part of the humor.

[phantomhockeyzero]

it called a jk i knew dat "XD"

[bgmorse]

I thought the humor was great!

[spartns12341234]

hey i made one but like can u make a vid on the little stick thing that holds it up cuz i used a shoebox and the flap is really pushing down on this paper clip i put on there. (I taped down a paper clip to hold up the flap but it keeps slipping down.) What do i do? : (

[haiku575ukiah]

i'm making a solar cooker in the future, but i dont know what materials to use, or what food to cook, can you make nachos in it? (i think it'll get me an easy a is why i asked)

[strive4impact]

Hey!

I'm a little busy with other projects at the moment but will definitely add a shoe box solar cooker to the list... it might just be a few weeks before I get to it. The best way to know about it will be to join us at the GreenJoyment community... I'll blog it there once it's done.

Thanks for your interest and for commenting!

[GaleTheHawk]

This was my science project XD but we put black constructionpaper on top of the alumium foil in the box

[strive4impact]

Yah, I ultimately did that, but it still wouldn't get up much above about 125 F. How hot did yours box get?

[GaleTheHawk]

Somewhere above 175, i also put plastic above the hole i made (did u do that? if u did sorry for restating thst XP)

[strive4impact]

Yep... I did put plastic above it... maybe the box was too vented and all the heat was escaping.  That's awesome you got yours up to 175!

[6555bik]

i made one and it cooked me a small pizza

[strive4impact]

How did you get it to do that? I got very frustrated with this pizza box cooker. Did you do anything special to make it work?