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Revision as of 19:23, 13 November 2014
Last edited: 13 November 2014
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Project planning
Determine whether solar cooking is appropriate in your area
- Predicting the usefulness of solar cooking in a given locality
- The 25 countries with the greatest solar cooking potential
- Cultural variables to consider
- Solar radiation maps
- The Special Challenges of Solar Cooking
Learn from the work of others and make contacts
- Find existing promoters in your country of interest
- Most significant solar cooking projects
- Refugee camps with large solar cooking programs
- Project evaluations
- Hard-won lessons
- Cooking for large groups
- Institutional solar cooking
Access handbooks and training materials
Solar Cooker Project: Best Practices Manual
Jewish World Watch created this manual that details what has been learned that will assure a successful solar cooking project in refugee camps.Trainers Manual: Teaching Solar Cooking - Solar Cookers International Field Guide: Spreading Solar Cooking - Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers: How to Make, Use, and Enjoy - Solar Cookers International
This is a handbook published by Solar Cookers International that includes detailed plans for building a CooKit solar panel cooker. (There are also detailed versions in Arabic (Standard, Variation), French, Spanish, and English for Kenya, and Galician.)Integrated Sustainable Solar Cooking - Instruction leaflet for end users - Solar Cookers Netherlands Determine which model(s) to work with
Determine the suitability and availability of materials and components
- Glazing
- Glue
- Insulation
- Jar lids
- Paint
- Wheat paste
- Insect proofing
- Cardboard
- Waterproofing
- Heat storage
- Wind protection
- Props
- Solar cooking pots
- Panels
- Plastic fluteboard
- Pressure cooker
- Mylar
- Solar radiation
- Low-tech reflective material
- Reflective material
- Weather
- Water Pasteurization Indicator
Information on solar cooking individual foods
- Hard porridge
- Beans
- Bread
- Flatbread
- Pasta
- Popcorn
- Rice
- Maize meal
- Injera
- Guidelines and cooking tips
- Recipes
- Coffee roasting
- Ugali
- Beverages
Consider additional technologies to introduce
- Decision Tree Diagrams on Factors Affecting Choice of Fuel Strategy in Humanitarian Settings
- Integrated Cooking Method
- Heat-retention cooking
- Solar water pasteurization
- Solar food drying
- Pot-in-pot cooler
- Solar food processing
- Solar autoclave
- Other non-cooking uses for a solar cooker
Funding
Fund your project
- Raising funds through grants and donations
- Raising funds through manufacturing and/or sales
- Microcredit
- Carbon credits
- Mass-producing CooKits
- Solar restaurants and bakeries
Audio and video
- July 2014:
- July 2014:
Additional resources
- Promoting solar cooking in developed countries
- What you can do to promote solar cooking
- Solar cooking slide decks - Presentation slide decks that can be used to introduce solar cooking to groups
- Classroom resources
- Organizing Solar Cooking Events
See also