What Are Solar Cookers Made Of?
Solar cookers are designed to focus the sun's rays onto a cooking pot. Because solar cookers are essential in such places as campsites or emergency shelters, many utilize inexpensive, readily available materials. Does this Spark an idea?
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Funnel Cookers
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A funnel cooker is composed of a funnel-shaped cardboard base covered with reflective material such as aluminum foil. You place your cooking pot in the center of the funnel, where the sun's rays are reflected onto the pot to warm it.
Windshield Shade Solar Cooker
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This solar cooking device uses an accordion-folding windshield shade which comes with a reflective surface on one side, formed into a funnel shape.
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Box Cookers
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Simple solar cookers can be made with cardboard boxes lined with aluminum foil, lightweight aluminum sheets or mylar material. They may also have surfaces coated with flat black paint to retain more heat .
Tire Cooker
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A tire cooker uses an inflated inner tube set on a sheet of plywood. The cooking pot goes inside the tube with a sheet of plain glass on top, sealing in the heat captured by the black rubber.
Parabolic Cooker
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A parabolic-dish or mirror cooker is made of reflective material formed into a dish. One version uses an upturned umbrella lined with sheets of aluminum.
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