Matt West

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Matt West built this parabolic cart cooker using a discarded satellite dish covered with reflective material. Everyone should have one.

We Can Harness the Power of the Sun.

Whether you're camping or dealing with a power outage, or just plain conserving energy, this handy cooker can cook nearly anything that can be cooked on a conventional stovetop or oven. You can take advantage of the power of the sun to cook with no fuel. Refrigeration, Canning, and drying food can help on cloudy days. All sorts of cooking gadgets can be clamped onto these things. Build one for yourself or I can build one for you. These cookers are only a few weeks old now in April of 2008. In the weeks to come I will explore many various experiments to practice solar cooking.

The parabolic cooker pegged the needle on my oven thermometer.

This is a simple locking adjuster for my parabolic solar cooker. It is a rigid wire, a clamp made with a bolt and wingnut, and a band of steel.

This a canning jar with an aluminum can inside of it. Inside the can are burrito squeezins. Notice the vigorous rolling boil. You can break the glass if you are'nt careful doing this. I used the same jar for stewing and then, canning a tomato. I did not include the aluminum can in the canning of the tomato. I simply painted the bottom of the jar with high temp paint.

This is where a rotisserie would help. Note: If you don't keep an eye on this experiment the chicken will eventually catch fire.

This simple solar oven was made on the recycled lower body of a gas grill. Roast a chicken, slow cook, reheat food. Today I cooked two chicken thighs insde the oven. They were so tender that the bones came apart very easily. The oven appears to reach temperatures above 200 degrees F. It will hard boil eggs.

If anyone sees where I'm headed with my ideas and would like to contribute to my efforts, please donate what you can.

I want to give this kind of cookers to anyone who needs one, and you can help. If you have any parts to donate please contact me. 254-947-0230 If anyone can send me carts, please do. If you have any TV dishes you can send I will make sure they make it to a deserving person. I need lots of supplies and funding to develop and make this dream come true. Donate a good car or truck if you can. I also collect, repair, and distribute bicycles to deserving persons.

Contact

Please send what you can to:

Matt West

22612 S. Interstate 35 box B39 Jarrell TX
76537
USA

Thank you,

Matt West

Fill the world with fruit and nut trees, and fruits and vegetables and solar cooking devices, especially the parks. Then spend time together and enjoy. Don't buy the hype about oil, coal and natural gas, it's a trick. Those are old established businesses, they are clinging to the past and they are bent on finding ways to keep us dependent on them. They don't want to die, that's natural. They must die out, just as the blacksmith had to learn to fix cars, the entire industrialized world will have to adjust. Solar concentrator power can make tons of steam and hydrogen. Hydrogen can be stored. That is as good as having many charged batteries or many gallons of gasoline or natural gas. That's where we are going. There was a time when nearly all cooked food had a delicious smokiness. I put a cherry pie in a smoker for 15 minutes; it was fantastic.