How To Make Your Own Solar Cooker Or Oven Materials: 1. Two cardboard boxes, one smaller than the other. (The smaller one needs to hold a cooking vessel). There should also be a few inches of space when you put the smaller box in the larger box. 2. An additional sheet of cardboard 3. Newspaper 4. Aluminum foil 5. Glue 6. A pot or mason jar with a lid, spraypainted black 7. Plastic wrap or a sheet of clear plastic or glass that is roughly the same size as the top of the larger box How to make it: 1. Crumple up the newspaper and put it in the smaller box. 2. Place the smaller box in the larger box. 3. Fill the space between the outside of the smaller box and the inside of the larger one with crumpled up newspaper. 4. Line the inside of the smaller box with aluminum foil, shiny-side-up. Glue it in place and make sure its more or less flat. 5. Lay your sheet of cardboard on the top of the larger box and trace the outline of the larger box. Add a few inches to the outline you traced and cut the piece to this size. This will be the reflector. Line one side with aluminum foil, shiny side out. Attach this to the outside of the larger box, near the top, so that there’s maximum reflective area sticking up. 6. Lay your clear plastic or glass over the top of the opening of the larger box. 7. To cook something in your oven, place the food you want to cook in your black vessel and place it in the smaller box. Then point the solar oven toward the sun. Move it as necessary to follow the sun’s path while cooking. Perfect this temporary design for yourself and experiment- then build yourself a permanent solar oven! Source: self-sufficient-blog/archives/679
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:23:46 +0000
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