With summer approaching a fun family project is to build a Solar Cooker .

A solar cooker (or solar oven) uses passive energy from the sun (no solar panels or batteries required) to cook Delicious dishes from soups, stews, meats, fish and tasty steamed vegetables, it is even possible to bake bread in a solar oven.

Think about your car with all the windows rolled up, parked out in the sun on a very hot day. Now shrink that down and focus that heat energy into your solar cooker and there you have the basis and technology behind Solar Cooking, temperatures inside the oven can reach as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

It is the ultimate way to have food slowly and safely cook using no power source other then the sun, solar ovens have been a boon to third world countries that have scarce supplies of wood or fuel for cooking.

I have building/design drawings for a simple solar oven that I will post in the next couple of days, they are easy to build from most household materials, and work great, its a great springtime project to enjoy year round.

Brett