You may have seen Ed Begley cooking with his solar oven on HGTV’s “Living With Ed”, or maybe your eccentric uncle Dwayne has shown you his latest solar oven design out behind his yurt in Santa Fe, regardless — solar cooking is actually a reality.
Wikipedia gives a pretty good description of some of the different designs (solar cookers and solar box cookers) and sites like solarovens.net sell cookers and ovens while solarcooking.org provides faqs, forums and a broad overview of all things solar-cooking-related, as well as instructions for building your own.
Frankly, I’m a little surprised that there isn’t a sexier marketing push behind the solar cooking movement. Sure it takes a little longer, but the energy and emissions saved, (not to mention the novelty) in cooking this way add a lot of sizzle to the concept.
Pricing varies from $99.95 for the HotPot Solar Cooker (my favorite – which donates a portion of each sale to subsidize distribution of the cooker to Latin American and Africa) to the catch-ily-named, top-of-the-line, SolarHybrid w/4 Pots for $219.95. Inexpensive, portable and supremely earth-friendly. Maybe the time has come for you to relax, slow down and do some all-natural cooking.
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for those who haven’t experienced these things, I can’t begin to explain how scrumptious the resulting meals are. I’ve been eating chicken mole that a friend cooks in one of these, truly some of the best food I’ve had– the meat falls right of the bone, so tender– mmmm (read in homer simpson voice)
hey max,
how long does it take to cook this chicken mole on the solar cooker?
the meal sounds great.
I am a Past Governor of Rotary International in Pakistan and am looking for solar cooking range donations for the war affected people in swat and malakand areas. These internally displaced people have been affected by the recent war against terrorism.
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