Solar oven

Find out how to make a solar oven with a pizza box. Build a DIY solar oven for a fun summer STEM project for kids. Enjoy our solar s'mores!

solar oven, in an intentional community, a row of these will go a long way.

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If you've ever seen a kid frying ants with a magnifying glass, you know that the concentrated power of the sun can create great heat. But what if that heat were applied to something a bit more productive -- something like cooking food?

Use solar energy to reduce energy bills and for convenience. A solar cooker is handy on camping trips and RV or boat excursions, because it provides a passive option to prepare food using sunlight. A shoebox solar oven or cooker is easy to build using common household materials.

It was over 3 years ago we made our cardboard solar cooker as a prototype for a more permanent cooker as we profiled in the post: Make Your Own Solar Oven This past spring we finally made the permanent one (above). We adopted the plans from: williamgbecker.com/ Make a Solar Oven and plans included in the 1992 book, Cooking With The Sun (Morning Sun Press) by Beth and Dan Halacy. (As an aside, as I was researching for this post I noticed that Beth Halacy died earlier this year, Dan had died…

EB Hypar Cooker

Find out how to make a solar oven with a pizza box. Build a DIY solar oven for a fun summer STEM project for kids. Enjoy our solar s'mores!

Wow kids of all ages this summer and use the sun to make s'mores !