typical solar cooking day, part 1

[PalmyBruce]

Great idea to use a shiny bowl as the container for the cooking vessel.

[HandsomeSasquatch]

Hi, I am planning to make a solar oven and gluing aluminum foil to the sides of a box....do you know if the glue gets too hot from the cooking if it will cause toxic gas to contaminate the food? is there a certain type of glue i should use?

[solarcookingnut]

@HandsomeSasquatch HI, I just use non toxic elmers school glue or similar. they don't gas off.

[LiquidChem]

if do do the math, and print out a true parabaloid shape and cut out your reflector from that, it would be MUCH more effective! hope i could help (you have partial parabolas)

[RJBURG]

I been making solar cookers lately. I just made one like yours but only 12 by12 small used a alum veg strainer and saw bust for insulation. The sun had only one hour left a pan with glass cover and in a turkey bag got up to 140 f and that with a weak sun . rain next 3 days then do a cook out thanks solarcooking nut for the idea. see my cookers on here

[solarcookingnut]

@RJBURG HEY, great to hear from you! So glad you are making more! I will go check your vids! I haven't used this one this year, need to get it out and work the lid I made over, the bags I used finally deteriorated so I never got around to fixing it so I could cook in it again. thanks for keeping me posted!

[Daymack]

Very, very cool! it look like fun to me :) is this also possible in winter, when the sun is very weak?

[solarcookingnut]

@Daymack Yes, solar cooking CAN be done in the winter but you need more reflectors. I can't solar cook much in the winter because we have a ridge of hills behind our property and the sun doesn't hit in my yard until late February. The more reflectors you have, and unobstructed sun most of the day, you WILL be able to solar cook!

[Daymack]

@solarcookingnut Ah ok nice, its a cheap and effective way of cooking! I like it..

[lilflowergrace]

Aluminum Foil/Sheet, thanks for posting videos like this, we are looking for conventional solar cooker.

[solarcookingnut]

You are very welcome! once you know the basics of how to solar cook and all the different kinds of cookers and ovens, there really is no end of the ideas you can come up with to cook with the sun.

Hope you try it out!

[RVqueen]

Beautiful!!!! 5*s and faved! This is my project for the week, building a cooker and learning to cook outside... it gets 80 degrees in here when I make dinner.