Build A Solar Cooker
February 23, 2008 by Jennifer
One great project for kids is building, and then cooking on, their very own solar cooker. My son built one when he was five, at this co-op school-type deal he went to for a while, along with a bunch of other five year olds and one adult. They used it all the time. They cooked their own tortillas on it every week, and flat breads, the kids loved it.
Benefits of solar cooking are plentiful:
No energy drains.
It’s free! Until the sun starts charging us $.
Studies have shown that two solar cooked meal a week can save massive energy over time, including wood (where people cook with wood).
There’s no smoke with solar cooking, thus no harmful carcinogens, in you or your food.
It’s portable – it’s so hard to take your kitchen stove camping.
It’s fun. And there’s not much else cuter than kids slapping tortillas on a solar cooker.
How to make a solar cooker.
I could just tell you, but then I’d have to find visuals. It’s much easier with visuals. So, links!
Solar cookers are great – but for sheer gettin’ dirty fun – kids always love a cob or mud oven project. Can be built in a weekend and will make the best pizzas outside of Naples.