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Last edited: 22 April 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
- Statistics for the 25 countries with the greatest solar cooking potential
- The Special Challenges of Solar Cooking
- Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
- Obstacles to solar cooking
- Solar radiation maps
- Why are Solar Cookers Still Unpopular Among Development Experts? - Paul Krämer
Learn from the work of others and make contacts
- Find existing promoters in your country of interest.
- Most significant solar cooking projects
- Project evaluations
- Hard-won lessons
Access handbooks and training materials
- Jewish World Watch has created a manual that details what has been learned that will assure a successful refugee project: Solar Cooker Project: Best Practices Manual
- 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
- Information on solar cooking individual foods (rice, ugali, injera, sadza, etc.)
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
Consider additional technologies to introduce
- Integrated Cooking Method
- Heat-retention cooking
- Solar water pasteurization
- Solar food drying
- Pot-in-pot cooler
- Solar food processing
- Solar autoclave
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
Additional resources
- What you can do to promote solar cooking
- Presentations - PowerPoint slide decks that can be used to introduce solar cooking to groups
- Information on solar cooking individual foods
- Organizing Solar Cooking Events
- Cooking for large groups
- Institutional solar cooking
- Refugee camps with large solar cooking programs
See also
- Most significant solar cooking projects
- Suitability by region in Africa
- Solar Cookers International Network
- Promoting solar cooking in developed countries
- Solar cookers support all of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
- Where is solar cooking possible?
- Solar Cookers International