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Baking doesn't have to take place in the kitchen. You can take your meals off grid in a few ways, such as clay ovens, or using geothermal heat to slow roast your dinner, or even heat up eggs in about ten seconds with concentrated solar. In fact, solar is one of the easiest ways to heat your food without turning on the oven. And it can be one of the cheapest.
Cook In Your Car
You can do more with your car than just drive it - take advantage of dashboard as an oven! The sun coming in through the windshield makes it a perfect spot to cook up something tasty - like cookies. Without any extra materials or effort, you can cook up a batch of cookies in the parking lot while you're at work. Nice reward at the end of the day!
Buy a Solar Cooker
If the dashboard of your car isn't exactly appetizing, another option is buying a solar cooker. There are a few models out on the market, and costs range from about $60 to about $650 depending on the model you want. But there's a much cheaper way to get a solar cooker...
Make Your Own Solar Cooker
Crafting your own solar oven is simple. You can whip one up in no time with a few simple materials. We have an idea for making one with just cardboard, foil and a few other basic materials that you most likely have laying around the house.
You can even take your cooker with you to work, making the parking lot your break room and baking up something tasty for lunch. You can use a printer paper box, or your car's sun shade to concentrate heat onto your meal.
If you feel like being ambitious and have a whole lot of old CDs to recycle, how about creating a concentrated solar cooker with CDs and a satellite dish?
So You've Built Your Solar Oven...Now Cook Something!
Before you get started cooking away, read up on the dos and don'ts of using a solar cooker. There are some tricks you'll want to be familiar with so that your meals turn out how you expect them.
Recipe Suggestions
How to Use a Solar Oven: Beans and Rice Recipe
How to Use a Solar Cooker: Solar Cooked Pork & Grapes
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