More solar energy fun

Cooking some more with the solar oven on an over-cast day. I am quite pleased with the results. I am anxious to try it out on a sunny WINTER day -- but that won't be for awhile (I hope!). On a sad note -- it blew off the wash tubs yesterday as I was making a pot roast and potatoes and landed upside-down! I just about wanted to cry when I came around the side of the house to turn it and saw it on the ground. The panels got a bit bent, but other than that, it survived and the pot roast and potatoes even stayed in the pot and were salvageable! (I finished them up in the regular oven inside.) My husband was able to flatten / straighten the reflective panels out nearly good as new, so I'm back in business and will be mindful next time of putting the oven up on something in the future. I think I'm going to get a piece of plywood and simply set it on the ground from now on. So, the Sun Oven gets 5 stars for being tough as well as efficient!

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[thejesters1975]

Thanks for sharing.We love you,.......Uh,.....in a purely platonic way of course!

[Michigansnowpony]

Ha ha ha -- right back at ya!

[Octahoney]

Thats awesome! (the freznel sp?)

[Michigansnowpony]

sorry for the late reply: It's spelled fresnel, but pronounced "fre' nel"

[Deenanemily]

kewl

[icehorses]

Good job!

[KARStarla]

I was looking into buying one of those lenses, that would sure save on matches when you have sunny days.

I was thinking, do you think (if you had a couple built large enough) that the idea for heating food could actually heat our homes if we built them 5 by 5 feet with reflectors and added a hose to the back and then into the house given how hot they get? I sorta wondered about that, why not use a larger built sunoven as a source of heat on cold sunny days, what do you think?

[GoatHollow]

My freeking rooster (His name is Fred), starts up at 3am. sometimes, then he makes a racket all day long.... Arrrgh, If I weren't such a softie... He'd be supper!!! (btw. thanks for calf manna tip, she's starting to put on some weight. Unfortunately, I don't have stalls to separate them, so the others are getting to be butterballs.)

[dkw12002]

I use 2 Sun Ovens..one for boiling water for dishes and the other for cooking. I cooked beans and rice today. My beans took about 3 hours too cook but in TX I got up to over 300 today. You can tell when your dish is done usually cause it fogs up on the cover. I use a small amt. of water for the beans, then add more for the rice. Hey, make sure your beans get cooked. Beans, esp. kidney beans have a toxin that requires boiling as you probably know. Don't ask me how I found out!

[BLBMZ]

Solar cooking is the one thing I have not gotten into yet, but that bean dish really looked good. Wow that lens worked quick!!! I could just see my kids getting a hold of it....I would end up homeless or the woods around me would be know more...lol. Thanks for sharing with us.