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Archive of posts filed under the Solar Cooking category.
Busy day!
Shopping for my new guitar. Woohoo! Thanks, Tex! Watering the garden. Love that sage. Yummmmmmmmmm! Solar ovens are cooking away. My backyard smells delicious! It’s campin’ out weather every night this week! Target practice. I have no idea why he’s sitting down. But it works. Ah, sourdough starter. This stuff smells great! Instead of throwing [...]
A Week of Solar Cooking
We are supposed to have sun every day this week, so I’m breaking my own rule and linkin’ with Menu Plan Monday to show off all my solar oven plans for the week. Monday – Chili and Rice Tuesday – Mac & Cheese with Tuna Salad Wednesday – Chicken Tacos Thursday – Chilaquiles and Rice [...]
Super Solar Suppers
I’m still having so much fun learning how to cook with my homemade solar ovens. This is the most cooking fun I’ve had in a good while. I still can’t hardly believe it’s possible to cook for free. Yesterday I made Chile Rellenos in one oven and a Carrot, Squash, Chocolate Cake in the [...]
Solar Oven – the second
I am excited to announce we now have our second solar oven. Y’all aren’t much on the guessing the name, though. Pete was constructed following plans like these. Re-Pete was constructed following these plans. Now that we have done both we will build our next one like Pete, only because it was easier. They both [...]
It’s Sunny!
My weather report is just too capricious. Seems like they are changing it just to jerk my chain. This is a much better outlook for solar cooking than what I saw last evening. Solar cooking lesson #47: Just go outside and look at the sky. Solar cooking lesson #63: Have a back up plan. It’s [...]
Solar Supper Update
I am: making some mistakes (do I dare identify with Thomas Edison?) learning lots about solar cooking teaching science without even trying very tired after a day of experimentation, while regular life continues at it’s normal pace no matter what kind of cool projects have my attention. Supper in the solar cooker flopped, but I [...]
Brownies and Burnt Fingers
Our weather changed, skies cleared up and the sun is beating down. It’s already 86ºF outside. This may sound rather obvious, but the solar cooker really started to heat up once the sun came out. Yeah, sounds very obvious. But it really made all the difference. I checked that stick of butter after it had [...]
A Cloudy Start
OK, it’s 9:30 a.m., 64°F, very cloudy. Sounds crazy, but the solar oven is supposed to work anyway. It’s all about uv rays and infra-red light. So, this morning I am considering making brownies. I put my solar oven on a big table out in my yard, now we will refer to that [...]
My New Solar Oven
I’m so excited!!! I have been planning this project for… oh …. about 13 years. Today, finally, today we built my new solar oven. I used the plans in the book Cooking with Sunshine by Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic. The supply list is simple. 2 boxes (one large, one smaller) lots of scrap cardboard [...]
