Cooking with a Solar Oven

This oven just might take 1st place away from my vacuum sealer as far as favorite "kitchen" appliances. I like having back-up plans. How would I cook / bake if electricity became very expensive, or got rationed, or simply wasn't available for an extended period of time??? I could use our wood stove in the winter, but what about in the summer? Now, with this Sunoven, I have that covered. Now, to figure out how to keep the stock tank filled and thawed out without electricity. Still working on that one. But now I'm wondering if I could fit it with some reflective panels. : )

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• Solar cooking
• solar oven
• Cooking with the sun
• Sun oven
• homesteading
• hobby farming
• emergency preparedness
• economic collapse
• alternative cooking
• cooking green

[bernie018]

how about sharing some of your recipes I live here in the sunny dominican republic I would love to test one of those solar ovens they seem safer than a fresnel lens

[Michigansnowpony]

@bernie018 -- Hi Bernie018, I don't have my own recipes per se -- I use those from the cookbook, "Cooking With the Sun" as well as the online mini cookbook by Wendy DeWitt (which also uses food storage items in the recipes). A link to her cookbook is found on the sunoven dot com site under the Who is Using tab, then Provident Living option. Scroll down to the Everything Under the Sun topic and you'll see the link.

[larrylynn123]

Nice video....very interesting! Nice people as well.

[Michigansnowpony]

Thank you!

[hunt1803]

If you check out GreenPowerScience here on YouTube - they play around with fresnel lenses and mirrors for concentrating the heat of the sun. A fresnel lens is simply a tv screen liberated from one of those evil TVs. They look like they'd be fun to play around with, but again, they only work in bright sunny weather.

[Michigansnowpony]

Umm, well. . . truth be told, I have a Fresnel lens coming from ebay. It's a small one already in a tilt-able frame. I want to rig up some sort of "fry plate" or hot plate with it -- IF it's strong enough. I might have gotten too small of one. We'll see. I know, I know -- I'm a homesteading GEEK!

[Daddyhitball]

Great video. I've been researching the SunOven and appreciate all the nice close-ups in your video. I enjoyed your narrative and laughed when I seen you're official "taste-tester" scorch his tongue. Very endearing.

[dwnsouth0721]

nice video, i've just discovered this product and it was really interesting to actually see it in use

[Michigansnowpony]

Thank you! I'll try. It's raining and I'm making peach jelly. Everyone is home (kids and hubby) so no video because it's just too chaotic! We're being parent nazi's and making the resident pygmies clean their room. Oh, the despair and protests going on . . . .

[Michigansnowpony]

I mentioned my concern over finding a non-electric method of keeping our stock water thawed and my husband thought of using thermal siphoning. He built a thermal siphoning shower for camping that works amazingly well. . . but it requires a campfire. : ( So, modifications would have to be made for the barn!