Make a solar cooker and solar oven today for $20 with foil covered bubble wrap and binder clips.

Then use your sweet+fun+hot solar cooker to heat up your food, burn less fossil fuels, keep some peeps and critters cool, and slow down the climate disasters.

Whether you use a simple cardboard box lined with aluminum foil tape, foil covered bubble wrap [Reflectix] and a big clear plastic bag over it or just over the food, or a fancy premade mirror box, or premade parabolic mirror, you can help defend the planet and its future inhabitants by Cooking With The Sun.

Make a XOEarth Solar Cooker yourself with the simple dimple instructions below.

Cook it with the sun to help save our imperiled planet Earth.

There are a bunch of other great solar cookers out there that you can buy or make. We have links to some of them below. There are cardboard box designs that are lined with aluminum foil or foil tape, or you can buy one of the more expensive and techie solar cookers.

There are beautiful parabolic mirror solar cookers and even some with Fresnel lens.

Tell us how you like to use your solar cooker in an email, or comment below or on XOEarth facebook.

Defend the planet and its inhabitants by Cooking With The Sun.

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XOEarth Solar Cooker DIY instructions ::

#1 Solar Oven – Symmetrical Cone – 2-ish foot wide:
Materials:
1 Aluminum Foil Bubble Wrap: 24 inches x 44″ / 61 cm x 112 cm [Reflectix or InfraStop or EcoFoil]
2 Big binder clips.

Fold lengthwise. Overlap material about 3 inches on 2 corners. Attach a clip to hold the 2 corners together. Follow overlap to the cone center. Attach a clip to hold the center together.

#2 Solar Oven – Asymmetrical Cone – 2.5-ish foot wide::
Materials:
1 Aluminum Foil Bubble Wrap: 24 inches x about 60″? / 61 cm x 152 cm [Reflectix or InfraStop or EcoFoil]
2 Big binder clips.

Fold left upper top side to right side. Overlap material about 6 inches along the edges and 2 corners. Attach a clip to hold the 2 corners together. Follow overlap to the asymmetrical cone corner. Attach a clip to hold the back corner together.

Face the oven towards the sun to start cooking.

To make the cooker get hotter, put a plastic bag over the food and/or the whole cooker.

That’s it. That’s how you can help our biosphere live longer by cooking with the sun.

EarthLovers, I love my little home made solar cookers and ovens. Search for DIY solar ovens on Youtube to find a bunch of fun ways to make them yourself. XOEarth, Stele.

A solar cooker, or solar oven, focuses the energy from sun’s light to heat, cook or pasteurize food or drink. Most solar cookers are relatively cheap, low-tech devices. Because they use no fuel and cost nothing to operate, some nonprofit organizations are promoting their use worldwide in order to help reduce fuel costs and reduce air pollution, and to slow down the deforestation and desertification caused by gathering firewood for cooking. Solar cooking makes outdoor cooking possible and reduces the chance of accidental inside fires. Solar cookers and ovens help reduce fossil fuel and bio fuel consumption to help slow down the climate change disasters that are getting more frequent and bigger every year.
More info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker

XOEarth, Stele

XOEarth Solar Cooker #1 – a XOEarth Solar Cooker #1 – b XOEarth Solar Cooker #2

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Cooking With The Sun/ Nate and stele c14

cook our yummies with the sun,
in solar stoves that are way fun,
photons will boil, bake and dehydrate,
so our future selves can celebrate.

Nate and Stele did a mind meld with the raccoons for Cooking With The Sun. They listened to what these smart critters have to say about how cooking with the sun to conserve energy. Using less fossil fuels to cook food helps make it possible for raccoons to have a good time in the future.
Recorded in the Alfalfas Market cafe in Boulder Colorado.

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Bonus cooking tip: Use a flexible silicone drinking cup/pint to scoop out the cooked beans and food out of the corner of pans. I also use the silicone cup to transfer bulk spices into little reused spice jars because I can bend the silicone drinking cup to create a funnel thing. I think silicone cups make cooking more fun. Find a used one on an auction site to do the eco hero thing.

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