Teong Tan
From Solar Cooking
Teong Tan has been active since 1998 in designing solar cookers. He is the inventor of the DATS solar cooker, a homemade cardboard cooker that serves as a modified parabola. He is also the inventor of the Suntastic panel cooker, a portable solar cooker made from folding a used cardboard box. He has taught 20 people to use solar cookers as of mid-2004. In early 2008, he designed the Fun-Panel cooker. The Fun-Panel cooker is a portable solar cooker that is based on the design of the solar funnel cooker. Most of the solar cookers that Teong H. Tan designs can be made with simple materials like aluminum foil, glue, a used cardboard box,and a short string. Also most of his designs are capable of cooking without a greenhouse enclosure. In many of his cookers, an effort is made to make the cooker portable. Teong resides either in the country of Singapore or in Malaysia, both countries are in South East Asia. He can easily be contacted through his website below and by email.
