EatTheWeeds: Episode 71: Solar Cooking

http://www.eattheweeds.com/solar-cooking-something-new-under-the-sun-2/

Learn about wild food with Green Deane. In this video see a chicken cooked in a solar oven and learn how to make a very inexpensive portable solar cooker you can use in the field to cook your wild food.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• bushcraft
• edible
• wild
• foods
• Foraging
• herbs
• medicine
• permaculture
• plants
• raw
• survival
• wildcraft
• solar
• oven
• cooker
• fryer
• chicken
• recipes
• windshield
• reflector

[SustenanceNCovering]

It has been over 2 years since you made this vid.  Is your SOS Sport Solar Cooker still functional or has it crumbled into oblivion? Have you had any experiance with the Global Sun Oven? After several years of looking at these things I am finally about to make a move and purchase one. I have made homade versions before with very limited success.

[EatTheWeeds]

@SustenanceNCovering I have four solar ovens, three I made and one I bought. They are all still working.

[shawnph]

Very neat video. I'm inspired to give it a shot and maybe make a more sophisticated one, similar to your commercial one. Living in Florida, I bet it'll work well here.

[EatTheWeeds]

@shawnph I'm in Florida as well. The commercial over cooks in about 2/3 the time and goes get hotter. It, however, is not portable. 

[KoloniaPNI]

how long does the car shade cook food? would like to buy one for me..

[EatTheWeeds]

@KoloniaPNI About six hours, 9 am to 3 pm is the prime hours. However, if you mean how long does it take. It is a slower than a commercial solar oven. The time depends on what you are cooking, say 4 hour for a four pound chicken instead of 2.5 to 3.

[puffyclouddd1]

This is so amazing! Thank you"

[gaiagale]

brilliant! ...i read in your comments that Canadians are able to use solar cookers ...I'm curious as to which latitudes?...Prince George is high in terms of latitude ...in winter there is little heat in the rays from mid november to mid february

thanks

[Seeker4Peace]

More than a thumbs up. Fun, intertaining,. and a new discovery if what to do with car shields. Best was the ending. I'll be back. I have a yard full of ameranth and perslane. It is making a great ground cover. No mowing. No gardening. Feel sorry for thw ones who turn weeds down.

When I became homeless at 50 I chose to live under the bridge. Pops would cook. I offered to pick the mustard that was growing all around us. But none would have anything to do with it.

[hkitty383]

That's amazing!