Villager Sun Oven

The Villager Sun Oven is designed for large-scale feeding situations requiring cooking great volumes of food. The Villager Sun Oven was inspired by the smaller version of this design called the All-American Sun Oven produced by Sun Ovens International,
Originally, the Villager was developed by Tom Burns with technical support from Dave Menicucci. Even though it is called an oven, food can be baked, boiled, and steamed at cooking temperatures of with no fuel costs. Over 1,200 meals a day can be cooked. For use at night or on rainy days, the Villager is equipped with a propane back-up unit. This oven weighs 980 pounds / 444b kg. and comes mounted on a trailer.
Today's Villager Sun Oven features a propane cooking capability designed so that this unit is not dependent only on bright sun. In under two minutes, one person can convert the Villager Sun Oven into an efficient propane-powered oven that cooks for eight hours on just over a pound of propane. When the sun rises the next day, it only takes a few minutes to go back to solar-powered cooking.
Villager Sun Ovens are currently in use in 55 countries around the world. The primary use is in large scale feeding or in bakeries. An optional 150 piece Sun-Bakery package, enabling the creation of a self-sustaining micro-enterprise to turn out fresh baked goods while creating jobs and eliminating the cost of fuel, is available. Some schools use a VILLAGER to cook lunches and then bake bread in the afternoon. The bread is sold to help generate income.
The VILLAGER SUN OVENS are made in the U.S. and shipped to the country in which they will be used.
Each VILLAGER SUN OVEN® when utilized as a Sun Bakery can save over 150 tons of wood annually which results in the reduction of 277 tons of CO2 green house gas emissions annually.
==Fact sheet==
*Even though it is called an oven, food can be baked, boiled and steamed.
*Bake… hundreds of loaves of bread per day
*Boil… countless liters of water
*Cook… Virtually Anything: Rice, Beans, Maize, Dahl, Vegetables, Pasta, Fish, Meat...Up to 1,200 meals a day
*Sterilize… medical instruments
*Pasteurize... Villager Sun Oven can pasteurize large quantities of unsafe water making it fit for consumption
==Features==
*High temperatures… in excess of 
*Rugged durable construction… designed to last for 15 years or more
*Easy Track tracking system…enables precise manual adjustment to follow the sun
*Propane back up system…operates on rainy days or at night
*Trailer mounted… easy to transport and secure for storage
*Simple to operate…operators can be trained in a matter of hours
*Collapsible reflector assembly folds for easy transport and storage
==Dimensions==
Height:
Trailer mounted folded for storage                 74in                             187.9cm
Trailer mounted open for use                        109.5in                        287.2cm
Ground level folded for storage                      55in                             139.7cm
Ground level open for use                             99in                             251.5cm
Width:
At bezel                                                      25.8sqft                       2.37sqm
At base                                                       14.7sqft                       1.35sqm
Cooking chamber                                         7cuft                            . 20cum
Cooking shelf                                               6.53sqft                       . 60sqm          
Reflective Area                                             91.75sqft                     8.44sqm
Reflector diameter when open                        109in                           276.9cm
Glass                                                          16sqft                          1.47sqm
Trailer:
Deck                                                           4 x 6ft                          1.22 x 1.83m
Overall width at fenders                                 64in                             162.5cm
Weight :                                                                      
Oven and trailer                                            980 lbs.                        444kg
==Standard Accessories==
*1 Trailer leveling leg
*1 Trailer dolly
*2 Jack Stands
*2-20 lb. propane tanks
*3 Oven thermometers
==Current Usage==
*School feeding programs
*Retreat centers
*Refugee camps
*Missions compounds
*Orphanages
*Emergency relief
*Sun-bakeries
*Hospitals (Cooks food for staff and patients and sterilizes medical instruments.)
In some cases, the same VILLAGER SUN OVEN can be used to serve a number of purposes. Orphanages use them to cook food for the children. In addition, they bake bread which they sell to generate income. The children are able to learn the usable job skill of making bread, and the orphanage benefits from the additional income and money they save by not purchasing cooking fuel.
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*May 2009: Using the Villager Sun Oven - Village Sun Oven YouTube Video
*July 2008: Visiting Google's Cafe Thoreau - Solar cooking at Google
*August 2007: Villager Sun Oven: Bring out the big (solar) guns - Treehugger
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*March 2024: Describing the new manufacturing and rehab options of the Villager Sun Oven
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*March 2024: Describing the features of the New Villager Sun Oven
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==See also==
*Sun Ovens International
*All American Sun Oven
==External links==
*Villager Sun Oven Home Page
*Sun Oven to be Donated to Needy in Haiti
*Doug & Stacy Homesteaders Villager Sun Oven Overview
*The Power of Solar Cooking
==Contact==
Villager Sun Oven LLC
418 Wilkesboro Blvd., Suite 1
Wilkesboro, NC 28697
http://www.villagersunoven.com
Phone: +1 (336) 915-2239
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