Solar cooker update!

We have been building off and on for two weeks now. We have a good start we can't continue building until spring because it's about 30-50 degrees outside. But we have our support and our panel done we just have to put the panel on a get a windshield reflector and our black pot. We used 24 feet of wood to build it. We have not done any tests with it yet we still have to figure out how to bring it home.

 The full support 

 The bottom support 

 This is where we are going to put our reflector which is a cardboard box flattened with tin foil

Solar cookers

   I recommend the parabolic solar cooker because In my opinion the parabolic solar cooker is the best and fastest cooking cooker out there. Someone from Mexico made one and they said it cooked a can of black beans in the same amount of time that there stove dose and they made it out of a windshield insulator thingy. A three year old boy told us how to make one in a YouTube video and you can hear the chicken sizzling in the half pipe they are cooking it in. Most of them are in the price range of $3.25 to $12.00 but the giant heavy duty ones are almost $500 and the smaller ones cook fast also. I'm raising money to go on a mission trip to South Africa and Zambia, which are third world countries and they could use a solar cookers. Over 1/3 of deaths in third world countries are from cooking in side where coal or wood smoke chokes the people. If we can teach people how to make these we can save lives and help people cook food. -Crocker

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Kathy Dahl-bredin  july 2006   [web log] retrieved from:

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