Did you ever try that goofy idea that seems to just float about, the one where you cook an egg on the hot pavement? Well, I confess I have, tried that is, without much success. Maybe got just a little of the edges almost to turn opaque. But it was fun, and perhaps if I’d wasted that egg on an even hotter day…
So you can imagine my delight when I discovered there are actually things called solar ovens. I’ve come to discover that the Global Sun Oven – Solar Cooker is the most widely used, ready-made solar oven worldwide. It “bakes, boils, or steams any kind of food with the power of the sun, reaching temperatures of 360 to 400oF.” Even though it weighs 21 pounds, it’s really portable since it opens and folds up in a few seconds and has a carrying handle.
It “measures 19″ x 19″ with an average depth of 11″…[and] 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…[and is] designed to last a lifetime.”
And apparently it’s not just for use in the summer, but the winter as well. “It has been used very successfully at below zero conditions at a base camp on Mt. Everest.” Sure sounds intriguing. There’s also a great DIY option that you can make for under $40 for all the materials, compared to $270, the best price I’ve found so far for the Global Sun Oven.
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Very specific and detailed instructions for this do-it-yourself project are available here. Amazing what one can build from a cardboard box (plywood if you want it to last longer), a little hardboard insulation, aluminum foil, white glue, spray paint, a roasting bag or piece of glass, and a BBQ thermometer. And last but not least, what would any home project be without a little duct tape?
Sure sounds like a fun project. And I could even use my solar-powered watch to time things. And cook things grown in the garden under the sun. I haven’t yet been able to find out if the home-made version gets as hot as its store-bought counterpart, but it does say it “will work well for warming rolls and keeping cooked items hot. It also works well for items that don’t need a set temperature (rice, beans, soup, corn of the cob).”
As for the Global Sun Oven, I have found some real-life real-world experiences. Real-live human beings who bought the thing and had great success. One man wrote he, “cooked some brown rice (less water next time), a small loaf of bread (nicely browned crust in one hour), corn on the cob (no water necessary!), and…brownies.”
Another user “cooked a 4lb chicken with carrots that was incredibly delicious. The chicken cooked down to the bone but stayed juicy. The next day I cooked steak tacos…and in the same day cooked my nephew’s birthday cake.” In further support of its use in cooler locales and times of year, someone else was a “little skeptical, but have been pleasantly surprised by how well this oven cooks! I’m in northern California, it’s October, and I’m still baking bread, cookies, muffins, I’ve roasted a chicken, a big ol’ butternut squash, pizza, basically anything I’d do in my oven.”
Sounds a lot more successful than the sidewalk and that egg. And since the sun is always on, well during the day from our relative perspectives, even when it’s not in use, but still set up, it’s ready to go without costing us, or the planet a cent. In the words of that skeptic from Northern California, “Some days I have it outside, it’s sitting there at 350 degrees, and I feel guilty not cooking something!”
