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Hi Vasco

I'm in London where ther are lots of discarded XPS boxes used to ship in vegetables from hotter places.

My latest box oven uses one of these boxes with hole in the lid which a double gl ...

Got some cooker bags the other week..........dont go to many supermarkets these days,, (one of the benefits of being an inner city type).

I have constructed a reflector type thing based on your str ...

Hiya DFerek

I'm newish here too. Dont know why but the solar cooking concept does seem a bit under subscribed considering its potential benefits. I guess thats why there's not so many of us here.
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Do any of the UK solar cooking folks know where I can obtain some of these plastic, transparent oven bags. Never seen them anywhere, can you only get them in far away places?.

Also (if anybody is ...

That dhal was so cooked it was getting dry again, i'm still made up that I actually breached the boiling point. Only ever had an oven up to a lousy 70 odd degrees.

Going to razz a few chickpeas tom ...

Managed to cook some fava beans from unsoaked to cooked through yesterday while I was out at work in my new improved box cooker with (under test) heavens flame collector. Wasnt there to see the max te ...

Coco
How did it go? This is what I got a fraction of a dgree north from Brockwell Park

Hackney, London
Set up the box cooker just before 12:00 with 2 heavy glass black jars inside and heavens f ...

Hi Coco

Just seen the post, wish I could come along but stuck with kids parties in North London.

Weather looks promising though.............good luck!

Stewart

Thanks for the swift reply.

I've got a heavens flame collector ready to put on the high efficiency box..................but going on hol's next week, so its on hold till late august.

Its been m ...

Great to find this forum. I'm an architect with a long term interest in energy conservation.

I've been trying to perfect a decent UK box solar cooker for a few years now, here in north east London ...