Cook with the sun for free! (no electricity or Fossil fuel required)

[Higans]

I'm sure it has been mentioned here before, but....

http://solarcooking.org/plans.htm

[Metta]

1. Also on your car's manifold.

I heard an interview on Fresh Air with a guy who wrote a cookbook called Manifold Destiny. Recipes for cooking on your car's engine as you travel.

[megatherium]

17. A charming book.

Recipes tell you how many miles to drive, to cook your foil-wrapped carrots and potatos, or beef. The author envisions highway rest stops filled with the aroma of home-cooking -- instead of fast-food restaurants. I have no idea if the recipes really worked. But there is a teeny problem with this: it relies on fossil fuels.

[Metta]

20. Thanks for the mini review.

I wonder if any of his recipes are on line. :)

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Used them in Scouts

(the foldable panel sort,not the fancy one in this photo.) They do work.

[Warpy]

3. The Parvati cooker looks very doable

and I've been looking at setting up a bank of solar cookers here for my dye pots.

Thanks!

[niyad]

4. did you ever see the episode of "hercules" where one of the traders

was offering something that looked pretty much like that at the agora? quite funny.

[Atman]

5. Get the GAIAM catalog

Solar cookers, water collectors, everything you need to go off the grid.

http://www.gaiam.com/retail/default.asp

[acmejack]

14. thanx

I always appreciate a link, I have this voluminous set of bookmarks. I rarely use them though, I enjoy googling too much. That is my next major acquisition, a solar notebook power source.

[htuttle]

6. I have a solar cigarette lighter just like that

...but smaller and easier to point at the sun, of course.

I got it because I wanted to make sure that if civilization does end up collapsing, I'll be able to light my last cigarettes with ease, no matter what. Unless it's cloudy. :shrug:

[Atman]

7. I've had a solar cooker since I was a kid.

It only cooks ants, thought. And lights dry grass on fire. It's called a magnifying glass!

[Dead_Parrot]

8. lol.

That's what I was thinking... :D

[htuttle]

10. A 12" fresnel lens is a very effective little solar furnace

I wouldn't be surprised if a person could solder wiring with it -- cumbersome size of the lens notwithstanding.

[phantom power]

16. I have a 12-square-foot fresnel lense. Focal point is about .5 sq-inch.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Wow, you're saving the Earth!

Imagine all those er... milliwatts of power you've saved! :sarcasm:

[DrRang]

9. Whooo Hooo! They're Great!

My husband has made several "Telkes" style solar cookers--insulated boxes with a glass cover and reflectors. They cook incredibly good food--barbequed pork chops so tender the meat falls off the bone, beans, posole, any kind of chicken dish. I cook anything that takes more than about 15 minutes on them.

[Javaman]

19. I'm curious as to how do you regulate the heat?

is it a timing thing? or is it a distance from the solar cooker sort of thing? I'm really interested in making one for myself.

[catmother]

12. here in phoenix when it's 120 in the summer i could cook right

on the ground. lol

[oneold1-4u]

13. Sources

Wow, you are right but that is just another waste of a harnessable energy source. Energy can never be used up. It can only be wasted. (AE) When we begin to understand that, and learn not to waste any source, no matter how small or seemingly never thought of, we will stop using destructive fuels!

[kestrel91316]

15. Yep. At least three months out of the year our sidewalks are prime

EGG-FRYING territory!

[Dogmudgeon]

18. You can use a Penium 4, too.

Just pry off the fan.

I've also heard that they've been made into marijuana and hashish vaporizers.

--p!