What Solar Cookers? How To Make a Solar CooKit

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How to make a solar cooker (*CooKit) from materials you have around the house. The Solar CooKit is the same solar cooker currently in use at the Iridima Camp, and is credited with helping save the lives of thousands of women and children.

n 1994, a volunteer group of engineers and solar cooks associated with Solar Cookers International developed and produced the first panel cooker, the CooKit. Elegant and deceptively simple looking, it is an affordable, effective and convenient solar cooker. It requires a dark, covered pot and one plastic bag per day or one high-temperature plastic bag per month. With a few hours of sunshine, the CooKit makes tasty meals for 5-6 people at gentle temperatures, cooking food and preserving nutrients without burning or drying out. Larger families use two or more cookers. The CooKit weighs half a kilogram, folds to the size of a big book for easy transport. CooKits are now produced independently in 25 countries from a wide variety of materials at a wholesale cost of $3-7 US. We expect that the new hand-assembled CooKits will outlast the manufactured CooKits which last for two years. Note that you can either build your own CooKit using the plans below or you can order a pre-built Cookit from Solar Cookers International. Your purchase helps support SCI's work around the world.

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[Lazvegas00]

Explain less about why, and do more HOW TO

[strive4impact]

@Lazvegas00 Will definitely do so in the next video. Thank-you very much for your feedback. It does help me improve.

[sparkles8921]

who knows wha the materials are?

please explain



[strive4impact]

@sparkles8921 These are aluminum sheets which came from a printing press. At the printing press, they get inked and then are used to stamp ink onto paper or other materials. They were mis-printed, so I got them for free.

[itsok4me]

Can you get sick from some of the materials used to make the cooker? I've seen some people spray with black paint to make it hotter. With the heat doesn't the fumes get into your food?

[strive4impact]

@itsok4me I think you could get sick from the fumes if you didn't use a lid on your pot. But to be safe, you could just buy a black pot or even a cast-iron pot which (although heavy) will hold the heat as well.

[strive4impact]

@XxVizzinixX Reflective foil tape would really help any solar cooker.  Thank-you for that suggestion!

[jigmesam]

I used to use these plates when I was a plate setter for a big printing factory. Evil things.

[strive4impact]

The material I'm using here is just polished aluminum. But I know some people have had good success with broken mirror pieces glued inside of the funnel.

[stoneofrefuge]

i wonder about where to get iridium or the material you are describing here. I know its thin as paper. I am curious where to purchase the stuff to make a home made solar cooking kit.