Most Efficient Solar Cooker Design

That s a lofty title and we don t necessarily feel comfortable assigning it to this product.

Most efficient solar cooker design.

Structurally similar to a simple panel cooker above advanced panel cookers like the hot pot by solar household energy use an external greenhouse layer to create dead air space around the cooking vessel this layer adds significantly to the pot s insulation value by providing a. Variations of these designs have typically been used to introduce solar cooking in deforested developing. In this article the most efficient solar cooker design is presented named the cf solar cooker. I looked at three or four solar oven and using their findings and ideas i built the ultimate solar oven.

For the sake of comparison we have divided panel cookers into two general categories. Most of the more compact solar oven can only achieve top temperatures in the 350 degree range which means longer cooking times for many meats or for baking but most campers hikers or for those on kayak or canoe trips patience is worth overall reduced weight and baggage. The cf cooker was also designed with mass manufacturing in mind and thus can be produced cheaply through economy of scale. Advanced panel solar cookers.

The most common have been solar box cookers and solar panel cookers they work well for slow cooking are generally less expensive to buy than other styles and are fairly easy for people to build themselves. In my engineering class my teacher told us that we had to invent or modify something and post it on the instructables web site. The cf cooker incorporates all features that improve the efficiency of the heater. But let s start with the basics.