Creating an oven inside an oven

For anyone who cooks, we all know that if you put a lid on a cooking vessel, it will cook faster because steam from the food is not escaping. Because I have problems with clouds rolling through and dropping temps in my box ovens alot, I create an oven within an oven by placing my cooking pans inside a turkey roasting bag, close tightly, and place inside the oven. I wanted to run an experiment to show you how fast the heat raises inside the bag BEFORE the oven itself reaches higher temps.




The environment you create by putting the pan inside a bag is one that heats up faster than its surroundings cooks your food faster when you don't have time to sit and wait for it to slow cook, especially if you only use one reflector like I do.

I had read about a scientist who created this kind of environment by using glass boxes, one 2 inches or so larger all the way around than the next. After putting several more over each other, he found the inner box was the hottest.

He also experimented with triple paning the ovens with glass and achieved higher temps by the extra glazing, to read more, go to this link:

http://www.solarcooking.org/saussure.htm

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[STARFIRESOLAR]

What were the sizes of the ovens? Did you also use a reflector on this oven? The video was really close up and it didn't show. Was the outer oven cardboard?

[solarcookingnut]

this is my large slantfaced oven I use in 98 percent of my videos. Only one reflector. All my box ovens are cardboard. this one just has lightly packed newspapers in between the walls. it's my pride and joy!

[solarcookingnut]

the video was short because my camera only took 60 second shots so I had to make it quick. I created the second oven by placing a pot inside a turkey roasting bag, and put a rack under the pan, and on top so there would be plenty of airspace in side the bag. I had read where a scientist had made 5 glass boxes, all in graduating sizes, and the inner one, was hotter than all the outter ones. So, I done this to show if you have a low temp oven, you can indeed increase the temp this simple way

[STARFIRESOLAR]

Yes thank you, I understand the process, it is simply concentrating the energy. There is no more heat available than what enters the cooker to start with, it's just concentrated into the smaller containers. You answered 2 out of my 3 questions. Could you tell me the size of the larger oven?The size of the opening that the sun goes through is all that matters. Thanks

[solarcookingnut]

Ok, took me a while, hubby piled some crates in front of it, been using another big one this summer.

the outter dimensions, 19 1/2 inches by 25 inches wide.

Inner dimensions, box is warped a bit, 18 1/2 inches by 22 in wide.

opening of the window, 17 1/2 inches by 21 1/2 inches wide.

In this oven, I can bake a full meal and dessert. Meat, veggies, a bread, and cake. meat goes in first, bakes 2 hours, then casserole/veg, then bread/cake. stacking using racks

[solarcookingnut]

yes its concentrating the energy, but many don't know this trick.

Go back to my first vids and see the oven on my green garden cart. Its one of my first vids

[maco10810]

The ultimate oven is one with no air inside of it, then their are no heat losses take a 44 gal drum cap it off with some thick bullet proof glass.

Connect it to a compressor - not the outlet, the inlet - so you pump all the air out.

Then hit it with a fresnel lens - and guess what - its no longer some thing to cook food in,

Now its some thing you can use to create steam - which could be used to power your whole house.i.e. no more electricity bill - if you want to cook with its fine too

[solarcookingnut]

Hey, I was wondering if you have been doing any solar cooking. Hope to see the results of your upgrade in your next video.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

i think i'm actually gonna do some mods to my oven today i have a new mirror film used by 3M that i found in the garage while cleaning