Solar Cooking Hash Browns with TV Lens

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Uploaded by on Sep 9, 2008

hash browns it is. by using a mirror, you can bounce the light under a pan and get a hot skillet to cook stove top style.

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  • Very nice cooking is not wiser to direct the sun ray into the centre of the frying pan instead of cooking on the side of the frying pan only. I have not try any of this ideas as I do not know where to buy the Fresnel Lens If I am able to buy one of the lens, as I am from sunny West Africa I will appreciate this more. Cokerfarm118

  • This lens and mirror came out of a big screen protection tv. You can see the tv it came out of in my "solar cooking, frying up some hot dogs" video at 1:16 into the video.

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  • Nicely done !

  • screw cooking machines, cooking something with solar energy has never wasted money.

  • Using the lenz directly on the pan is too hot but it seems the reflection light is just right to cook with. I know a man that repairs televisions I went to his home and asked if he would let me have one of those lenzs he said sure he had plenty of them. It was late in the evening I turned the lenz and focused on a pine cone on the ground and it burst into flames in a second he was impressed,

  • Nuttin' like raw hash browns on a rainy day!  Mmmm! What if I want a burger at midnight?

  • wear an autodarkening welding lens LOL.

  • Your mirror didn't break on you from that distance I see but depending on the time of day and how long you have that spot on the mirror at that distance it could. I did a video of this and broke several mirrors and a pro told me to keep the mirror no more than 18 inches from the lens and surface of it should be like 140 or so I have an infrared thermometer to measure this. nice going though. And a small pan like 5 inches will work nice to do like 2 eggs quickly evenly cooked for this.

  • MacGuyver cooking. SWEET!

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