Solar Cooker Week! The Solar Funnel Cooker
Posted by carrie_roll
Welcome to Solar COOKER WEEK!
This week, we will be making four different solar cookers, showing you how they’re made, and then on Friday, we’ll be testing out a bunch of foods to see how (and if) the cookers actually work!
We’ll be posting at least 1 video every day this week.
It’s going to be a GREAT Week, so be sure you check back every day!
For our first video, we are going to teach you how to make a solar funnel cooker.
For this cooker, you will need:
Aluminum foil
Glue
Cardboard (I got some heavy duty cardboard, which was very difficult to fold)
A razor blade
A cutting surface (optional)
A measuring tape (optional)
Brads, bolts and nuts, screws, wire, or some other material that will hold things together (watch the video to see what I mean)
Straight edge (like a board) for forming creases)
We’ll be posting a transcript of the video soon, but for now, just watch and enjoy!
(I actually mess up in the video and call this the “box solar cooker” but decided not to edit/re-record it)
And when you’re done watching, please be sure to comment and let us know what you like best about the video. (Be sure to watch to the end!)
This cooker comes from Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University (BYU), and no doubt a great team who helped him in the process of creating a variety of funnels for solar cooking!
5 Responses to “Solar Cooker Week! The Solar Funnel Cooker”
-
Thanks! I’m having fun making these videos, and learning to cook with a solar cooker seems like it will be interesting too!
-
jeff says:
Hey Man, It’s your neighbor Jeff. Thanks for putting me in the video.
When do you want your lawn mowed? -
I made one from a THIN round cardboard that was used to protect the top of a circular cardtable in the box. I could make the cuts with scissors and tape the edges together exactly how I wanted them. Too flimsey, but then I applied papier mache to the outside and it firmed up the entire thing. Lastly, I added the tinfoil. I made a parabolic cooker the same way. These work very well. I made one extra-large panel cooker this way too with 4′ reflective panels. It cooks best of all my homemade ones.
-
michael c says:
It definitely is a lot easier to use thinner cardboard, but if you want to use the thick stuff here are some tips: A sturdy pizza cutter makes a good creasing tool and you can use a knife and carefully cut through one side/skin of the cardboard (on the side you want it to bend away from). That will make even the toughest cardboard bend easily. It also works on Coroplast (plastic corrugated panels).
Loved the bloopers at the end. Great video!