Minimum Solar Box Cooker
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The Minimum Solar Box Cooker is a simple box cooker that can be built in a few hours for very little money. Using ideas developed by many different people, Tom Sponheim and Mark Aalfs attempted to come up with the simplest design that they could devise at the time (1990). They named it the "Minimum Solar Box Cooker." What they didn't communicate with that name was that this is a full-power cooker that works very well, and is in no way minimum as far as its cooking power goes. Two cardboard boxes

This looks like a fun little project that I think people here would enjoy! I have a little stack of tin foil takeaway boxes that I could use for this. Just need to get hold of the plexiglass (or the oven bag they suggest, but I’d like to do it entirely with reusables if possible).

EDIT: Grammar.

  • Remy Rose@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve done this and it definitely works, but it’s also finicky for sure. What I’d really like to know is how to build a DIY evacuated tube. AFAIK, the current very best designs for a solar oven use one, and almost nobody seems to manufacture the things.

    • frankPodmoreOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ha, quite funny that I keep finding people I know elsewhere on the Fediverse!

      Lemmy’s good so far. I like the format for discussions but it’s a bit ‘quiet’. How about you?

  • RiverGhostEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I got really confused about the whole some brand name oven plastic thing, until a little text at the end said “Plexiglas also works.”

    I know you mention it in your text but it didn’t really click due to the unfamiliar brand and the very concept of an “oven bag”.