Make a pizza box solar oven

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This homemade oven is built from a recycled pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic, glue, and construction paper. It can reach temperatures up to 150 degrees F. which makes it a pretty effective homebrew oven, although it might take you twice as long to cook something than a conventional oven would. Still it's a nicely done project with instructions.

Make a Pizza Box Solar Oven - Link


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Posted by: James on February 26, 2008 at 8:28 AM

Mmmmmm! Meat cooked to 150 deg. F. Yum. I'm going to invite Sam -n- Ella to come to dinner!

all kidding aside - that's not warm enough to kill bacteria...


Posted by: bayne on February 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM

Definitely wouldn't cook meat in that - would be good for making pizza though (or at least heating a frozen one).


Posted by: knight_308 on February 26, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Actually if I'm not mistaken, it'd do just peachy for jerking meat. It'd be a nice slow dry. You'd probably want to make a rack for it so air would flow, though.


Posted by: PattiS on February 26, 2008 at 4:21 PM

We baked biscuits in a solar oven in Girl Scouts years (and years) ago - some tweaking will get you more heat than 150F.

Here's a link to a bunch of solar cookers: http://www.solarcooking.org/plans/default.htm

and to Solar Cookers International: http://solarcookers.org/


Posted by: MadScott on February 26, 2008 at 7:44 PM

It'd be interesting to plop some cheap solar cells into this to see if you could get the power output up.


Posted by: Seba51 on February 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM

wow!i have to say that that is very creative!that would make great smores too!lol


Posted by: Anonymous on March 31, 2008 at 1:17 PM

Just another loser trying to make a buck on e-books. lmaao


Posted by: Anonymous on May 4, 2008 at 12:54 PM

Beef only needs to reach 145 degrees to be safe to eat. Anyone ever heard of a crock pot? It would take several hours, but if the heat wasn't allowed to escape no problem. Poultry would be another issue.


Posted by: Anonymous on June 18, 2008 at 7:58 AM

I've heard of a crock pot. This isn't hot enough to cook meat - sorry. Ever hear of heat transfer? Ever hear of the sun going down? 1 hour either side of noon you might have 150. Then you'd be chasing flies away as the sun declines. Pizza cooks at 400 minimum, crappy pizza. Good pizza cooks at 800.


Posted by: jim on November 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Actually solar ovens work. They just have to be insulated enough. The trick is to put a box *inside* another box so that there is very little heat transfer. Wadded up newspapers in between the walls of the two boxes help too. Mine also used thin plexiglass instead of saran-wrap for the window. That seems to help reduce heat escaping through the top.

My oven got up to 210 F within an hour on a sunny day in fall. I put *frozen* chicken breasts, asparagus and raw potatoes in a black pot and left it for around 3 hours. Perfectly done and great! They can work. Keep trying. If you can get consistently above 180 for a couple hours you should be good.


Posted by: charles on February 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM

awsome

This is awsome and it shall live forever and it shall suck forver


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