Solar Cooker

Solar cookers use the heat of the sun to cook food, boil water, whatever you do on a stove! Simple to make and simpler to use.

Materials Needed:
Reflective accordion-folding car sunshade
Cake rack (or wire frame or grill)
12 cm. (4 ? in.) of Velcro
Black pot
Bucket or plastic wastebasket
Plastic baking bag

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Step 1: Step 1

Lay the sunshade out with the notched side toward you.

janetsellers08 says: May 25, 2011. 6:43 AM

Wow. Thanks for the easy way to make this solar oven happen. I sort of don't understand the velcro strips part; is it only to make the funnel shape and if so, can you put in photos? So far, I can't figure out where to put them and seeing it would help. I'd also like to try this with my mylar "hot n cold" thermal bags, so I'd really appreciate you input. Thanks again. For decades, I've been interested in doing this, but the books I have are so complicated with angle formulas I just gave up.

Whatsername says: Apr 10, 2010. 7:12 AM

Supercool! Thanks for making solar cooking easily accessible ~ this is a genius plan. I live in Houston, so I will definitely be trying this to keep from heating my kitchen this summer.

thetech101 says: Jun 9, 2009. 4:12 PM

There are 2.54 cm in 1 inch. So 12 cm would be about 4.7 inches.

lemonie says: Apr 9, 2009. 4:38 PM

Please explain why you've lifted images from here?

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wsalazar (author) in reply to lemonieApr 9, 2009. 5:47 PM

There are many publicly available plans for making solar cookers online and I used the photos that came with the plans I found for the solar oven that seems like one of the best models around.

lemonie in reply to wsalazarApr 9, 2009. 6:02 PM

Did you actually build one then? I ask because there are quite a number of people who just copy stuff and cobble-together a lazy Instructable. Most people have access to a camera, so I'd normally expect someone to say "sorry about the pictures, I got them from here because I don't have a camera" if that were the case. It's good etiquette to acknowledge sources (in this site anyway...)

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higgrobot in reply to lemonieApr 10, 2009. 6:17 AM

Lemonie, you have an interesting icon picture, did you take it yourself?

lemonie in reply to higgrobotApr 10, 2009. 8:49 AM

It was an old photograph I found - did you put eggs on your face?! L

rimar2000 says: Apr 9, 2009. 8:16 PM

I did one of these funnel cooker around 2000. It is very effective, but for small portions. The article in the web, made by the inventor Steven E. Jones, said that device makes ice in a not so cold night