Solar Oven Reflectors

thumb|300px|The Sun Dome Solar Oven and Cooker
Solar Oven Reflectors, began building prototypes of solar cookers in 2010. According to the company, this effort is best described as a cottage basement industry. They concluded the five design essentials needed for solar ovens are: affordability, simplicity, portability, durability, and the ability to nest the cooker components together for reduced shipping costs.
Their current design, the Sun Dome Solar Oven and Cooker, is based on purchasing materials for 160 or more solar cookers. This allows anyone manufacturing this solar ovens to obtain price breaks for bulk purchase of materials. Assembling the cooker is done using good quality hand tools. They use Graniteware 517 pots, which do not nest with the other components. All the other components do nest together. The ovens use a polycarbonate dome that sits on a reflector assemble. The reflector tilts to the sun allowing one to cook from mid-morning to mid-afternoon.
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*February 2023: Demonstrating solar cooking at the local orphanage - Elie Joseph held this demonstration at the orphange in Hinche, Haiti run by Pastor Lavaud. Staff at the orphanage related that they love cooking out in the open in full sun. Using the solar cooker has made a measurable drop in the amount of charcoal and firewood they typically use. Tom Hallquist, living in , USA, supported the projected and provided the Sundome Solar Cookers. 
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E. Joseph demo orphanage 1, 2-8-23.png|The reflectors of the Sundome Solar Cookers are removed to check on the cooking food.
E. Joseph demo orphanage 2, 2-8-23.png|The cookers are arranged along the wall cooking away. Photo credits: Elie Joseph
 
*June 2021: The Big Blue Sun Museum's Luther Krueger interviewed Solar Oven Reflectors' Tom Hallquist for Season 2, Episode 2 of an on-going video series on solar cooking. Tom discussed his cooker fabrication and his work to promote solar cooking while attending the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's Energy Fair in Custer, Wisconsin on June 26, 2021.
*January 2016: Solar Oven Reflectors will allow any NGO or other non-profit organization to set up a micro solar oven factory to fabricate Sun Dome Solar Ovens in a community where the oven is sold and used with the provision the oven is manufactured with local labor. We believe the best way to help those in extreme poverty is to create employment.
==See also==
*Tom Hallquist
*Sun Dome Solar Oven and Cooker
 
==External links==
*http://SolarOvenReflectors.com
==Contact==
Solar Oven Reflectors
2163 W 9th Ave.
Oshkosh, 54904
USA
Tel: +1 (920) 379-8140
Email: info@solarovenreflectors.com
Web: http://www.solarovenreflectors.com
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