Recipes
SunOven Recipes The SunOven company has been building and distributing solar ovens since 1986. Some great recipes are shared here.
Solar Cooker International Wiki list of Recipes. SCI, located in Sacramento,California, is an incredible resource that includes recipes, oven designs, and stories from around the world.
Educator Mary Landau (seen at left at the annual Solar Discovery Faire) shares her experience of solar cooking in an after school program using vegetables and fruit harvested from the school lunchtime cafeteria. [Glendale, CA]
Solar Ovens
Build your own solar oven Solar Cooker plans from the archives of Solar Cooker International
Buy a solar oven Where in the world can one buy a ready-2-use solar cooker? click here to find out.
Build a Solar Pizza Box Oven (Solar Schoolhouse style). See video tutorial below for the tips on adding newspaper insulation for the walls, an extra piece of cardboard in the floor, and type of plastic film to use… for best performance. This is a low-cost design so that every student can make their own and experience the ‘wow’ of solar cooking. It’s also a model that allows for some extra ‘solar engineering’ to improve performance. [Instructions pdf].
[June 2021 Note: Autoclavable Polypropylene Bags can withstand high temperatures and are clearer than the Reynolds Oven bags. Not as easy to purchase though]
A conversation about Solar Schoolhouse and Solar Cooking. [July 2024]
Where in the World?
The Mujeres Solares, or Solar Women of Totogalpa (Nicaragua). Story and short video. .
Solar Cookers International. newsletters with stories from around the world.