Solar Cookers - Cook for Free !

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Solar Cooking - Cook with the Sun for Free
Cook your food using nothing more than the power of the sun and a solar cooker. Once you have bought your solar cooker then there are no more costs involved ! No electricity, no gas, no wood.

How Do Solar Cookers Work?

There are two varieties of solar cooker. The 'concentrating solar cookers' and the 'solar box cookers' (usually called solar ovens). You just set them, put your food inside and leave them out in the sun. You do need sunlight and you also have to point the cooker towards the sun but apart from that the cooker is more or less the same as any other cooker.

Another surprise is that solar cookers are not particulary new, the first ones were invented by Horace de Saussure from Switzerland back in 1767. So it is a little bit suprising that they aren't in more widespread use. According to the figures there are over 100,000 solar cookers in use in China and India. Cooking with a solar cooker takes around twice as long as with a conventional cooker and you may need to turn the cooker manually to follow the sun.

There are 'panel cookers', 'box cookers', 'parabolic cookers' and also 'solar kettles' if you want to heat up some water. One final neat trick - you can make your own solar cooker. It will cost you around $10 and all you need is some cardboard, glue, aluminum foil and paint - see this guy's site for the instructions - Make a Solar Cooker If you don't fancy making your own then you can buy solar cookers like this hotpot (around $119) from places like here - SCI




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Solar Cookers - Cook for Free !

[Nicolas_Thomas]

I have used solar cooker but I am not know that how they worked but now i am very happy to knowing it's working process. Thanks!