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* Built in about an hour from one large cardboard box or from two medium-size sheets of cardboard |
* Built in about an hour from one large cardboard box or from two medium-size sheets of cardboard |
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* Great cooking power |
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Revision as of 18:15, 24 May 2011
Build a solar cooker
There is a wide variety of solar cooker designs, many of them very simple to build from inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials. Some can be built in as little as an hour for less than US$5. Start by choosing a cooker design type based on your requirements. The table below lists strengths and weaknesses of the most common types, and shows some popular cookers of each type. Below each table are all cooker plans of that cooker type. You can also buy a solar cooker from a variety of companies.
Selected designs
Panel-style cookers
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Cookit |
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Sunny Cooker |
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See all Panel cooker plans.
Box-style cookers
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Easy Lid |
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See all Box cooker plans.
Parabolic cookers
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See all Parabolic cooker plans.
All cookers
Below you will find links to all of the different plans for solar cookers found on this wiki.
See also
- For a discussion of all major cooker types, see the Compendium of solar cooker designs.
- All solar cooker designs found on this wiki
- Plans in Arabic
External links
- The original "Plans page" in the Solar Cooking Archive
- Evaluation of Several Original and Commonly Used Solar Cooker Designs - Dane Dormio and Steven Jones
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