Solar split pea soup

[IDemo]

I just finished dinner: split pea soup with ham, red potato, carrot and celery,
cooked up in the backyard using my cardboard and aluminum foil solar cooker -



The box is to elevate the panel for the correct angle of reflection. An oven bag around the pot is also strongly recommended.

I made this contraption a couple of years ago using plans for the Fun Panel . Not at all difficult to make. If you'd rather
buy a pre-made cooker like it, you can order a CooKit, or even just use a reflective windshield sun screen like this:



If you're really into it, you can purchase a Sun Oven , which will yield much
higher temps and allow you to bake and roast with better results. For the money,
I'm planning on making my own enclosed unit instead.



Tomorrow night - Lemon chicken!

[Walk away]

1. That is so cool! I made my smoker out of a cardboard box,

foil, a cooling rack and an aluminum pan. It worked! You can't cook in it but you smoke before or after you cook your ingredients.

[lunatica]

2. Food for sunny days!

That cool. Really.

[struggle4progress]

3. I've always coveted those 3rd world dung-fermenting methane cookers:

scoop some poop into the tub in the AM, close it up, attach the burner in the PM, fire it up, and cook dindin

But I suspect omnivore scat is not the source of choice: probably want cow or horse droppings, not pig or dog or human waste

Might be cool to take one on a pack trip, though