Tips On How To Do Solar Cooking

Solar cooking is a fun and interesting way to cook.

Using the sun to heat things is as basic as the caveman himself. Generally the least efficient appliance in your home is the water heater. the reason for that is it is underused. Water is heated and reheated many times before you use it. A close second on least efficient appliance would have to be the electric oven. For this reason many people are doing what I call solar cooking. Using the sun's energy to cook. Here's how.

When we go camping it is natural to heat water on a sunny day. When we cook we probably will pull out the propane Coleman stove of start a small fire. At home we may barbecue to get out of the kitchen. Solar cooking could give you a break and save some money when you are not using your electric oven.

With solar cooking you create a box build and the sun heat it. If you have sat in a car in the parking lot at a mall waiting for your wife you know the sun can generate a lot of heat. A solar oven works the same way by heating the food in a solar box.

You use to cook food and sterilize water. More people are discovering that using solar is an effective way to cook from both an economic and efficiency point of view.

Making the solar oven is easy enough to do. You create the box with dark paneling and then covered with a clear glass or plastic top after pots and food or water has been inserted. After sealing it the sunlight beats through the clear top and heats the interior of the box. As the temperature climbs it cooks the items inside. It really is as simple and easy to do as that.

There are three general types of solar ovens. A solar box works as described in the previous paragraph. A panel oven uses reflective surfaces to focus the sun on a pot to create heat and cook the material inside. A parabolic version is designed to focus the sunlight into the bottom of a concave area upon which sits pots. There are variations of these three forms, but all designs are derived from these basic forms.

While you might not apply your solar cooking techniques at home you sure could. As you can see, however you can cook with solar when you are camping or on picnics if you want to and use the sun to have a great meal.