What is Solar Cooking?

Comparison of Lids for Greenhouse Pots for Solar Panel Cookers:

complete text of book Expanding World of Solar Box Cooking:

Converting a Box Cooker to Have Round Inner Walls:

Cooking smoke: a pervasive killer in developing countries:

Developing an Intuitive Feel for the Dynamics of Solar Cooking:

Do High Efficiency Woodstoves Create More Greenhouse Gasses?:

Easy Lid Cooker: Although designs for cardboard cookers have gotten simpler, fitting a lid can still be difficult and time consuming. In this version, a lid is formed automatically from the outer box.

Ecological Cookers: An essential Element in Bettering Household Health:

Energy Crisis on a Global Scale — Solar Cookers offer a practical solution:

Estimate Your Cost Savings from Solar Cooking:

Food Safety and Solar Cooking:

Fuelwood as Percentage of Energy Consumption in Developing Countries:

Horace de Saussure and his Hot Boxes of the 1700s:

Importance of Eye Safety in Solar Cooking:

Information on the solar absorbtivity and emmitance of various materials :

International Standards for Testing Solar Cookers:

Interview with S Narayanaswami on solar cooking in India:

Introduction to Solar Cooking:

Kerr-Cole Large Solar Panel/Propane Hybrid Stoves:

Making and using a solar cooker : new link — It was during those days that I saw my first solar cooker and began the hobby that led to the cooker described in this article. I started out building the most efficient styles I could come up with. Later, while keeping this efficiency, I strove to simplify the building process, the materials needed, and the actual use of the cooker. The cooker is now basically cardboard, aluminum foil, and glass. Yet, because of the design, it is remarkably efficient and durable.

Minimum Solar Box Cooker : A great solar oven you can build quickly from two cardboard boxes

Mipango ya jiko la jua:

Pot with Integrated Greenhouse for Solar Panel Cooker:

Principles of Solar Box Cooker Design: The purpose of this paper is to summarize the basic principles that are used in the design of solar box cookers.

Rating Solar Cookers:

Recipe for Solar Seed Bars:

Recipes for Wheat Paste:

Report from the 1992 World Conference on Solar Cooking in Stockton California :

Robustness of a Reflective Solar Cooker:

Side-By-Side Comparison of the Various Panel Cookers:

Solar box cookers: Half the inhabitants of Earth cook over wood fires. Nearly half the world’s wood supply is used as fuel. But there’s not enough of it to go round — more than 2 billion people now face shortages of fuelwood. Forests in the developing countries are shrinking by more than 15 million hectares a year. The critical forest-to-people ratio has never been lower — worldwide, it is now less than half what it was in 1960.

Solar Box Cookers for Schools:

Solar Cookers a Hit at Rio Conference:

Solar Cookers Support All of the United Nations MDG Goals:

Solar Cooking on the Roof:

Solar cooking recipes:

Solar Crêperie:

Solar Dryer Systems and the Internet: important resources to improve food preparation:

Solar Oven Society: Restoration of water pumping windmills. Water system design and consultation

Solar Oven Trackers:

Solar Ovens for Developing Countries:

SunPan: new link — The "SunPan" was specifically designed to be built in any country with local materials and hand tools, a hometown solar cooker. This solar cooker can be mass-produced.

Sustainable Kitchen:

Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance from ASEA:

The Big Adventure of a Little Solar Cooker:

The complete text of the book The Expanding World of Solar Box Cooking:

The Easy Lid Cooker: Although designs for cardboard cookers have gotten simpler, fitting a lid can still be difficult and time consuming. In this version, a lid is formed automatically from the outer box.

The Energy Crisis on a Global Scale — Solar Cookers offer a practical solution:

The Importance of Eye Safety in Solar Cooking:

The Kerr-Cole Large Solar Panel/Propane Hybrid Stoves:

The Minimum Solar Box Cooker : new link — A great solar oven you can build quickly from two cardboard boxes

The Solar Crêperie:

The Sustainable Kitchen:

The Untapped Market for Solar Cookers:

The WHO Golden Rules for Safe Food Preparation:

Theories behind a Chinese Reflective Solar Cooker:

Through-the-Wall Ovens:

Tips on Construction and Cooking:

UN Report: Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries (pdf):