Global Sun Oven - Solar Cooker Review

Global Sun Oven – Solar Cooker

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  • Rust-proof, highly polished, mirror-like anodized aluminum reflectors
  • Sets up in minutes
  • Lightweight with carry handle
  • Easy temperature monitoring
  • Will reach temps of 360 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit


The Global Sun Oven® is the world’s most widely used solar oven. Solar cooking has been around for centuries, but up to now, not many people have had the opportunity to try cooking with the sun. Using the most advanced materials, the Sun Oven takes all the hassles out of solar cooking to create the ultimate solar appliance.
The sun oven can be used in the winter as well as summer. It has been used very successfully at below zero conditions at a base camp on Mt. Everest.
Measures 19″ x 19″ with an average depth of 11″. The total weight is only 21 pounds. You can bake bread, make cookies, pizza, muffins, or anything you could prepare using a conventional oven.
The Global Sun Oven® lets you harness the power of the sun to cook without fuel and is currently being used in over 126 countries around the world.
Sundance Solar is proud to carry this high quality solar appliance that is designed to last a lifetime.
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List Price: $ 299.50
Price: $ 239.00


This Review is from: Global Sun Oven – Solar Cooker by SUN OVENS International, Inc.

First use yesterday. Wash, DC area. Late winter, sunny. Ambient temp was high 50s to low 60s. Max temp of about 325, with the built-in thermometer showing 310 – 315 most of the 1.5 hours it was in use. Adapted a recipe from “Glorious One-Pot Meals” by Elizabeth Yarnell (available from Amazon) using an old one quart Pyrex dutch oven and doubling the cooking time.
The finished meal cooked up nicely. The original recipe called for 45 minutes @ 450 degrees. I’m an inexperienced cook, but interestingly, the lower temp and necessarily longer cooking time seemed to produce more liquid.
My one caveat is to follow the directions to pre-heat the oven and clean its interior well before your first use. The interior is plastic. I let the oven heat up a little, then ran a wet paper towel over everything. Off-gassing of the plastic that likely would have occurred had I followed the manufacturer’s directions, instead occurred while my meal was cooking. Result was a slight plastic-y (and assuredly carcinogenic) taste in that first dish.
Good build quality, but clearly from a small factory. Not meant to be pejorative. In fact, I like the idea of the company being a small business, particularly in the U.S. However, we’re used to perfect looking, assembly line manufactured, robotically assembled stuff and this isn’t. The plastic shell appears to be custom fabricated. The other parts are off-the-shelf components that have been adapted for this use and clearly assembled by hand. Hence, you’ll find exposed, untrimmed rivets and an entirely functional but somewhat roughly finished wooden frame to which the hardware is attached.
All in all, I like it and it’s worth its purchase price — generally between $240 and $300 depending on the retailer.
Pro:
Works as advertised. Good build quality. Easily maintained temps above 300 degrees.
Con:
Plastic interior — SEE BELOW!
23 Augusst 2008 Update — after reading the comments on my and others’ reviews, have double-checked and the interior is in fact metal. Nevertheless, follow the instructions and pre-heat a time or two before first use to allow the interior paint to finish curing, off-gas, etc.
Enjoy! Good stuff!


This Review is from: Global Sun Oven – Solar Cooker by SUN OVENS International, Inc.

My mother first sent me plans for a solar cooker when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya back in the 1900s, but being young and foolish, I preferred to walk an hour to town for kerosene to light my little stove. (Heck, I couldn’t cook, anyway.)
Being much older and a little wiser, I finally woke up to the idea of solar cooking. A parent at the school I work at donated the money to buy a Sun Oven, and my science class fired it up yesterday. I had never cooked in a solar oven before, so I was fully expecting some initial failures, which would be disappointing but instructive. I figured if it could heat up water, we’d bake brownies. The kids (7th and 8th graders) were unusually motivated to see this thing work. Some boys who have never previously volunteered in class eagerly peeled off the protective coating from the reflectors. We set the box outside facing the sun, and it quickly heated up to almost 300 degrees. It easily passed the water heating test, so other students mixed together my favorite brownie recipe (from Baking Illustrated), and into the sun it went. An hour later it passed the toothpick test, so the students tucked into moist, delicious brownies at lunch! It exceeded our wildest expectations for our first solar cooking attempt!
Today I’ve been experimenting some more, and I’ve cooked some brown rice (I’ll use less water next time), a small loaf of bread (nicely browned crust in one hour), corn on the cob (no water necessary!), and an encore of the brownies. Everything has turned out very well, and all it took was turning the box every half hour or so.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius Reviews

Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius

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Adhere to THE SUN TO Far more EVIL Enjoyable! Let the sun shine on your evil side – and have a wicked quantity of fun on your way to becoming a solar energy master! In this guide, the common Evil Genius format ramps up your understanding of strong, important, and environmentally friendly solar energy – and shows you how to create real, practical solar energy projects you can use in your property, yard – even on the road! In Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius, high-tech guru Gavin Harper offers you almost everything you need to have to construct far more than 50 thrilling solar power projects. You will find total, simple-to-follow plans, with clear diagrams and schematics, so you know specifically what is involved prior to you begin. Illustrated instructions and plans for 30 wonderful pretested solar power projects that assume no prior encounter with power science Explanations of the science and math behind each and every project Projects that progress in difficulty – from basic ones that might inspire science

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Cooking with Sunshine: The Complete Guide to Solar Cuisine with 150 Easy Sun-Cooked Recipes Reviews

Cooking with Sunshine: The Complete Guide to Solar Cuisine with 150 Straightforward Sun-Cooked Recipes

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What could be a lot more entertaining and magical than putting food into a cardboard box outdoors on a sunny day and taking it out fully cooked a couple of hours later? Solar cooking — a safe, simple cooking approach using the sun’s rays as the sole heat source — has been recognized for centuries and can be done at least during the summer in just about any location where there’s sun. In Cooking with Sunshine, Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic provide everything you require to know to cook great sun-fueled meals. They describe how to build your own affordable solar cooker, explain how solar cooking works and its benefits over conventional techniques, supply far more than 100 tasty recipes emphasizing healthy ingredients, and recommend a month’s worth of menu tips.

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