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The easiest, most sensible, and most affordable solar powered oven I have ever heard of was recently a winner of the FT Climate Change Challenge. Jon Bohmer sat down to work on a project with his daughters. All it required was two cardboard boxes (one inside of the other), an acrylic cover, black paint, and silver foil. With the boxes inside each other, the box on the inside painted black and the box on the outside covered in silver foil, they create an oven beneath the acrylic cover. The box is said to get hot enough to cook casseroles, bake bread, and boil water.
Bohmer didn't invent solar box cookers, but he sure did help to publicize them with the winning of this contest. Not only did Bohmer make this box for about $7, but he claims it worked on his first try.
So if this man could do this in one weekend with the help of his daughters, don't you think you could put something like this together, too? Isn't it worth a try? Instructables can guide you step by step through making a solar oven somewhat similar to Bohmer's. And if you don't like that box cooker, don't panic, there are plenty of other solar box cooker instructions all over the internet. The point is this: You can not only find instructions for a box to your liking, but you can make it quickly and cheaply. Sure, you can't cook everything under the sun (hardy har har) in your box cooker, but it's a start. Pizza, for instance, is easy to cook in a box like this. Even if creating this box doesn't totally eliminate your actual oven use, cutting down the use of your actual oven will prove to be beneficial to both your wallet and electricity/gas consumption.
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