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Sounds like a good, basic recipe. I'll give it a whirl when the sun comes back. If you've never tried solar, this is the perfect time to get ready. Make a cooker or two and assemble the other thing ...

As you can see, I close vapor exit.

Temperature in my oven cannot exceed 150�C, so there is no danger to close the vapor exit.

There is definitely danger, if you mean that you are comp ...

In case anyone is still interested in this topic, if I wanted to try pressure cooking and could afford it, I would try it with one of the lightweight black ones designed for camp use, such as the one ...

When I'm in the grocery store, I try to meet folks and introduce them to the idea of solar cooking, especially if I look in their shopping cart and they have veggies or other healthy foods.

I ask, ...

Sounds like the capitol of Chad needs some of those trained African constructors and trainers from the camps in Chad to come to town and show people how to cook without all that wood and charcoal mess ...

Thanks! That was very interesting. A lightweight, portable parabolic cooker that can be manufactured from simple, widely available local materials (except for the mylar, but at least that is relativ ...

I There are also two students (MIT and Wellesley) researching a parabolic solar cooker made of bamboo, mylar and yak wool in Tibet. I can put you in touch with them if you are interested.

Wow. I ...

I have just volunteered to help form a Europe and North America Net for Solar Cookers World Net (SCWNet—formerly Solar Cookers International Association/SCIA), because they ran out of volunteers bef ...

Very complete information Sharon.
Thank you very much

The team of design in which i am, has decided our solar cooker must be parabolic.
Could users give me information about its use, advantagies ...

Thanks for your comments here, Sharon. Can you send me or post a photo of the HotPot with the windshield shade clipped onto it? This would be a good addition to the HotPot page: http://solarcooking.wi ...

Hello everyone

What do you prefer in a solar cooker: portability, power, inexpensive?

For me, portability and inexpensive are more important. I don't mind waiting a little longer (or starting a ...

I have edited the registration page so that new registrants are asked to write an email to webmaster@solarcooking.org to register. I then register them manually and approve their accounts. We are stil ...

This is in response to some of Moe's questions. The workshop is for beginners in solar cooking. Most of the participants are seniors.

If most are seniors, they probably mostly live alone or as c ...

Glad you lucked out on the weather! Sounds like an amazing event (you'd be a good person to add something to the Organizing Solar Cooking Events on the wiki, I bet Wink

).

I wasn't so lucky with my f ...

One of the people who just happened to show up at the park while my international solar cooking holiday event was in progress was a homeless woman, who has been living in her car since fleeing a bad d ...