Solar Cooking

Advantages and disadvantages[]

  Advantages Disadvantages
General characteristics
  • Cook as fast as a conventional electric burner.
  • Can fry foods.
  • More expensive than other models
  • Tricky to make without imported materials.
  • Requires periodic realignment to the sun.
  • Can't bake bread
  • Can damage eyes.
DATS
DATS solar cooker
  • Can be made out of cardboard
  • Doesn't require the pot to be in a heat resistant plastic bag
  • Must be realigned to the sun every 45 minutes

All parabolic cooker plans[]

  • See the list below

Additional solar cooker construction plan links[]

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