Solar Cooker for Green Living
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What is a Solar Cooker ?
Solar Cookers for Home and Camp

Environmentalists, do-it-yourselfers, barbecuers and campers enjoy using a solar cooker for harnessing the sun's energy to prepare food the natural way.
Solar cookers allow you to bake, boil, or steam the natural way, plus you can create all your favorite slow-cook recipes just like you would by using a conventional crock pot while you're busy or away at work! Anything you can cook in a conventional gas or electric oven can be cooked in a solar cooker.
Did you also know that food tastes better that's cooked in a solar oven! Solar oven cooking will trap and retain all the natural flavors of food, plus all those wonderful juices that get baked out using conventional dry heat style ovens. Solar cookers offer superior cooking by using the sunlight! The slow and even rise of temperature in a solar oven gives the complex carbohydrates time to break down into simple sugars allowing those incredible, subtle natural flavors to emerge in your food. Sun baked foods stay moist because the natural internal juices don't bake out, resulting in a superior, moist taste with much less shrinkage.
Simply set your solar cooker in direct sunlight, point it the proper direction, place your meal inside, and solar cooker will provide a superior tasting meal for free!
Solar Oven

One look at this solar oven and you can see why the Tulsi-Hybrid is the #1 hybrid solar oven in America! Solar cook beef and pork roasts, whole chickens or cakes, pies and breads. Itll bake whatever you want: Features: Heats up to 400degrees F. Rugged 95% reflective one-piece reflector panel (Higher reflectivity than a standard glass mirror). Double paned oven window instead of the typical single pane (Condensation virtually eliminated). Double rubber oven seals instead of a single seal (Better long term heat retention). Attachable Temp. Booster reflector panels for (Higher Temperature Cooking). Larger internal cooking chamber (Cook 4 different foods at one time). Accessories (Everything you need to get started solar cooking from day one). 24/7 electric back-up system is energy efficient using typically 75% less electrical energy than your standard in-house oven (The cost to operate is pennies). Rugged suitcase design offers clamshell like protection to internal parts. (Sets up in seconds: Simple as opening a suitcase). Portable for easy transporting (Fits in the trunk of your vehicle). Larger cooking range: Canada to the tip of South America (You cannot out travel the Tulsi-Hybrid). Peace of mind: Solar-Electric/Daytime/Anytime (Always in case of an emergency.). : Specifications: Cooker size: 540 x 540 x 200 mm. / 21.25 in. x 21.25 in. x 7.87 in. Material: Molded body made of UV resistant fiber reinforced plastic. Cooking capacity: 2 Kgs. or 6-8 Kgs. per day / 4 Lbs. or 13 to 17 Lbs. per day. Total weight: Approx. 13 Kgs. / 28 Lbs. including cooking pots. Tray material & coating: Aluminum sheet, black painted for high UV heat absorption. Cooking pots w/Lids: 4-Stainless steel pots w/lips, hard black coated for UV heat absorption. Energy source: Solar & electric power for backup. Electrical consumption: Approx. 0.15 to 0.4 KW/h. depending on quantity & ambient conditions. Power source: Solar and backup electric 120 volts / 60 cycles.
Purchase this Solar Oven below at Amazon.
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Cooking with the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers
Amazon Price: $29.62 (as of 02/14/2012)![]()
This is a well written, friendly book that teaches solar cooking without being preachy. The directions to make the cookers are reasonable...The recipies are also good and well organized for the different kinds of cookers. As energy prices skyrocket, these kinds of cookers can really help save you money, keep the environment a little cleaner, and keep your house cooler. (You can bake with these things - and you don't have to bake yourself along with the cake or run the a/c to cool off again!) And though the sun doesn't shine all the time, it's free!
Sun Oven
Global Sun Oven - Solar Cooker
Amazon Price: $319.00 (as of 02/14/2012)![]()
Global Sun Oven allows you to bake, boil, or steam the natural way, plus... create all your favorite slow-cook recipes just like using a conventional crock pot while you're busy or away at work! Anything you can cook in a conventional gas or electric oven can be cooked in a Sun Oven. Food tastes better! Solar oven cooking will trap and retain all the natural flavors of food, plus all those wonderful juices which get baked out using conventional dry heat style ovens. Superior Cooking.
Solar Cookers, Good Idea or Not?
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raphaelo
Aug 14, 2011 @ 2:28 pm | delete
- Congratulations on your purple star here.. dear ClassyGals.. You're very well deserved it :) I love this lens of you.. It's so great if we try to use solar cooker instead of the way we use today. Have a wonderful time.. always :)
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TeamSTM
May 24, 2011 @ 7:06 am | delete
- Yes, I had a Science Project when I was a kid on Solar Ovens and Loved that Project!! It was one my Favorite Science Project ever, I never even thought about creating a Lens or article on the subject; this is a very Useful and Accurate Lens!!
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miaponzo
Mar 21, 2011 @ 1:00 am | delete
- Love it! :)
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SofiaMann
Oct 9, 2010 @ 7:52 pm | delete
- Excellent idea. It is a good way to use alternative energy and without pollution. Congratulations.
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_Joan_
Sep 21, 2010 @ 3:20 am | delete
- I really want to do this someday. Great information.
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