Solar Cooking - Build Your Own Solar Cooker Click here for TEXT ONLY version.
Solar cookers work using the greenhouse effect to trap energy.
Students have experienced the greenhouse effect many times when they've opened a car door only to find the car interior warm on a cold winter day, or extremely hot on a summer day. There is a wide variety of solar cookers students may build, some which can be constructed during on e class period and others which may require a whole day, but they all work. Check out the links below to see plans and pictures for various cookers. It is a real oven, and will cook most anything you would put in your oven at home. They are considered a slow cooker, usually taking about twice as long as your conventional oven.