Solar cooker plans

• Easy and cheap to make
• Many models can be collapsed for storage or transport

• Lower temperatures
• Can't fry foods
• Cooks only 1-2 pots of food

Fun-Panel

• Built in about an hour from one large cardboard box or from two medium-size sheets of cardboard
• Doesn't require a large flat sheet of cardboard like the CooKit does
• Easy to adjust for different sun angles
• Great cooking power
• Very good for winter cooking in temperate regions

• Not waterproof
• Might be difficult to use in equatorial climates where sun rises to straight overhead

• Fastest cooker to make.
• Waterproof

• Only feasible where windshield shades are sold
• The flexible shade usually needs some form of support

• Folds to the size of a large notebook for storage or transport

• Not waterproof
• Doesn't cook well when the sun is low in the sky

• Can cook in multiple pots simultaneously
• Can be built from many different materials
• Can be built any size to cook large quantities of food
• Don't have to be turned to follow the sun while cooking

• Construction time longer than panel.
• Can't fry foods.

• Simple to build from two cardboard boxes

• Not waterproof

• Same as "Minimum" Cooker but there is no need to construct a lid since the top of larger box becomes the lid

• Not waterproof

• Extra power due to multiple reflectors
• Can heat multiple pots simultaneously

• Must be turned a bit more often to follow the sun
• Bottom of oven not level as cooker tilts toward sun
• Not waterproof

• 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.

• 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