Comments on: Weekend Project: How to Build Your Own Cheap, Simple Solar Oven http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/ The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: energy saving tips | Boy Scouts on the Kitsap Peninsula http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-9593 energy saving tips | Boy Scouts on the Kitsap Peninsula Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:26:00 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-9593 [...] don’t use a/c (except maybe in August), but using fans could save money if you do. * Build a solar oven! Fun project, and it costs nothing to operate. * Get up earlier, and go to bed earlier. Use the [...] […] don’t use a/c (except maybe in August), but using fans could save money if you do. * Build a solar oven! Fun project, and it costs nothing to operate. * Get up earlier, and go to bed earlier. Use the […]

]]> By: George http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-7723 George Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:38:47 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-7723 TY!!!!!!!! this is for my science fair project btw does anyone noe what is the most efficient back drop for this? like alluminum tin foil, wtc TY!!!!!!!! this is for my science fair project btw does anyone noe what is the most efficient back drop for this? like alluminum tin foil, wtc

]]> By: Julie Hamann http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5969 Julie Hamann Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:35:31 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5969 You just saved me a ton of money. I was going to buy a solar cooker; now I will make my own. Here in Arizona, I can use this year around. You just saved me a ton of money. I was going to buy a solar cooker; now I will make my own. Here in Arizona, I can use this year around.

]]> By: Preparedness Pro http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5967 Preparedness Pro Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:54:00 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5967 What an excellent, straight ahead tutorial on how to build a solar oven on the weekend, Chelsea! Thanks for sharing, we've passed this onto our Facebook Preparedness Followers as well -- we've been talking a lot about solar ovens in an emergency and for everyday. http://tinyurl.com/nz2bfd What an excellent, straight ahead tutorial on how to build a solar oven on the weekend, Chelsea! Thanks for sharing, we’ve passed this onto our Facebook Preparedness Followers as well — we’ve been talking a lot about solar ovens in an emergency and for everyday. http://tinyurl.com/nz2bfd

]]> By: Uncle B http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5452 Uncle B Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:51:26 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-5452 In the 'Instant -On" hustle and bustle here at the mid-point of the American Industrial Age, we hardly have a lifestyle amenable to anything taking time! It is this high -paced "American Dream" supporting nonsense that must be eliminated from our otherwise rich and full lives, so that we can take advantage of the "Good Life" once enjoyed here in America! Listen to some of the old tunes from the Twenties, and realize that, for the bigger part, the frantic, driving beats we hear today are absent! Picnics at the beach lasted all day in the old days, and cars ran much slower, as did motor-bikes! Homes were comfort-oriented, with large soft chesterfields and high ceilings, and folks gathered as families on Sundays to go to church and enjoy a meal together! Somehow, we have lost the charm of those days gone by and are suffering for it! Perhaps a change-over in values will allow eco-housing, and solar oriented living to return, and a slower, Solar pace can be adapted to as oil runs out and folks slow down to a semi-agricultural survival mode, conserving as we did in those days, with less disposable this and that, and more time for each other and the Sun! In the ‘Instant -On” hustle and bustle here at the mid-point of the American Industrial Age, we hardly have a lifestyle amenable to anything taking time! It is this high -paced “American Dream” supporting nonsense that must be eliminated from our otherwise rich and full lives, so that we can take advantage of the “Good Life” once enjoyed here in America! Listen to some of the old tunes from the Twenties, and realize that, for the bigger part, the frantic, driving beats we hear today are absent! Picnics at the beach lasted all day in the old days, and cars ran much slower, as did motor-bikes! Homes were comfort-oriented, with large soft chesterfields and high ceilings, and folks gathered as families on Sundays to go to church and enjoy a meal together! Somehow, we have lost the charm of those days gone by and are suffering for it! Perhaps a change-over in values will allow eco-housing, and solar oriented living to return, and a slower, Solar pace can be adapted to as oil runs out and folks slow down to a semi-agricultural survival mode, conserving as we did in those days, with less disposable this and that, and more time for each other and the Sun!

]]> By: Pat http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-4838 Pat Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:48:54 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/weekend-project-how-to-build-your-own-cheap-simple-solar-oven/#comment-4838 Not being a handywoman, and not having much extra time, I used an old black big electric pan --- it is oblong - about 15 X 22 inches inside diameter. It is already insulated. It's like a cooking oven or roaster or something like that. (You can pick them up in thrift shops, cheap.) I just put an old glass window pane inside it. The oven thermometer I keep in it shows it gets about 200 degrees in less than 1 hour in mid-day sun. So far, I have made good tea in it, and warmed up my lunch very nicely. I just put the food in it, inside some black cooking pots, with glass lids. I keep it under the table on my deck to pull out in the sun, and be protected in the rain. Next, I am going to take a foil car sun screen I got in the dollar store for $1.00 and stand it up cone fashion around the cooker. I will also experiment with putting some foil inside an upside down open umbrella.. so some good idea on you tube... just search for SOLAR OVENS on youtube... LOTS of good videos. At 200 degrees, my beginning experiment warms stuff up, makes tea, and would make a good dehydrator, too, I am sure. I am going sustainable in NY :) My neighbor is giving me an old barbecue unit... I will experiment with making that a very viable solar cooker... it is already black... probably just need some glass windows and some foil stuff to arrange the right way. I like it is already at a good height for easy use. Not being a handywoman, and not having much extra time, I used an old black big electric pan — it is oblong - about 15 X 22 inches inside diameter. It is already insulated. It’s like a cooking oven or roaster or something like that. (You can pick them up in thrift shops, cheap.)

I just put an old glass window pane inside it. The oven thermometer I keep in it shows it gets about 200 degrees in less than 1 hour in mid-day sun. So far, I have made good tea in it, and warmed up my lunch very nicely. I just put the food in it, inside some black cooking pots, with glass lids.

I keep it under the table on my deck to pull out in the sun, and be protected in the rain.

Next, I am going to take a foil car sun screen I got in the dollar store for $1.00 and stand it up cone fashion around the cooker. I will also experiment with putting some foil inside an upside down open umbrella.. so some good idea on you tube… just search for SOLAR OVENS on youtube… LOTS of good videos.

At 200 degrees, my beginning experiment warms stuff up, makes tea, and would make a good dehydrator, too, I am sure.

I am going sustainable in NY :)

My neighbor is giving me an old barbecue unit… I will experiment with making that a very viable solar cooker… it is already black… probably just need some glass windows and some foil stuff to arrange the right way.

I like it is already at a good height for easy use.

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