Comments on: Solar ovens and solar coffee

By: Gourmet Coffee Lover

Gourmet Coffee Lover — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:02:06 +0000

I am all for green but it sounds like a lot of effort to roast coffee. I guess this is a test and it could lead to something much great down the road.

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:08:00 +0000

If anyone is interested in supporting poor families in sun-rich countries please have a look at kyototwist.org. Founders of this Canadian based charity are using their experience with solar cookers to make a difference and help improve lives affected by the cooking fuel crisis. Solar cookers address so many needs. It is great to see small companies spreading the use of solar cooking and roasting! Sunny solution!

By: suma valluru

suma valluru — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:35:21 +0000

Hi, I agree with you that alternative energy growing is required to be implemented for globalism…

cheers,
suma valluru

By: Jinx

Jinx — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:16:51 +0000

I remember many many years ago, making a mock up of a solar hot dog cooker for a Social Studies section on inventions. Never tried it, it was only for show….

As far as telling if something is done, a meat thermometer is a MUST for any cooking of meat, inside or out! Otherwise, follow your taste buds. Adjust for cloudiness as needed, since you’re reading this site, you must have SOME native intelligence…

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:56:48 +0000

As a second grade teacher, I became interested last spring in solar ovens as a potential science project for my students. Little did I know how incredibly fascinating and versatile solar ovens could be. Sixteen months later, I’ve constructed 6 solar ovens of varying styles and capacities. Two models were constructed by my students. My wife and I have cooked approximately 65 times last summer and about 45 times so far this year. We can cook/bake/boil virtually anything from simple rice dishes to meatloaves to large pots of vegetable soup to the more tempermental homemade breads. We have also enjoyed impressive savings on our utility bills. If you have common cardboard, aluminum foil, glue, some tempered sheet glass, and black enameled bakeware, you could be off and running in a couple of hours!

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:46:49 +0000

Kinda along the same lines:
While working at a Girl Scout camp I’ve helped construct cardboard ovens. You just take cardboard box, line it with heavy duty foil and place a mental dish with two brickettes (sp?) of charchol in it. You can add a rack a few inches above the coals to place a pan of brownies/cornbread/etc for cooking. Then, we’d just place it out in the sun (the extra heat helps). In 30 mins we’d have a great snack.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:46:49 +0000

By: Stew

Stew — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:42:52 +0000

Just a few practical questions; What do you do if it gets cloudy part way through cooking that Turkey? How do you know how much to increase cooking time if it’s cloudy for half an hour? Also in impoverished villages, how do they keep the mirrors clean? I’d assume they don’t have much money for windex and paper towels. Issues such as these seem to make ideas/products like this impractical.

-Stew