Changes: CD Cooker

Revision as of 19:05, 12 September 2009

Description

Take one old satellite dish and a pile of AOL CDs or whatever old software you have filling your drawers. Bolt the CDs to the mesh of the dish. Voila: a solar stove capable of 800 degrees F. These pictures show a temperature of 400 degrees. This is adequate for my uses. In an earlier experiment I had CD's covering every available square inch of the surface of the dish. It produced over 800 degrees. More that I needed for cooking. Do not try to retrieve anything from the focal area without a leather glove on.

Materials

Satellite dish
CD's

External links

Contact

Web: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/build-a-solar-cooker.php

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 ===Description===
+Take one old satellite dish and a pile of AOL CDs or whatever old software you have filling your drawers. Bolt the CDs to the mesh of the dish. Voila: a solar stove capable of 800 degrees F.  These pictures show a temperature of 400 degrees. This is adequate for my uses. In an earlier experiment I had CD's covering every available square inch of the surface of the dish. It produced over 800 degrees. More that I needed for cooking. Do not try to retrieve anything from the focal area without a leather glove on.
 ===Materials===
+* Satellite dish
+* CD's
-===Dimensions/Weight===
+[[File:Old_CD2.jpg|right|200px]]
 ==See also==
 ==External links==
+* http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/build-a-solar-cooker.php
+* [http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-powered-stove-using-100-recycled-materials/ Step-by-step plans on how to build the Old CD cooker]
 ==Contact==
+Web: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/build-a-solar-cooker.php
 [[Category:Solar cooker designs]]
+[[Category:Parabolic cooker plans]]
+[[Category:Parabolic solar cooker designs]]