On Thursday, April 14th our class visited a sustainable home. One of our guides demonstrated how to use the energy from the sun to cook something. Ronda, our guide, was cooking nachos in a more advanced solar oven.
Then it was our turn to create a solar oven that could cook pizza or smores. Our solar ovens were made from pizza boxes. We join up in partnerships and started building.
1. We cut a flap on the top of the pizza box, 1 inch from the edges all around.
2. We taped tinfoil onto the flap we had just made.
3. We taped plastic wrap/cellophane to the opening of the box.
To cook your mini pizza or smores, just find a sunny area, flip the tinfoil lid open and place the food under the plastic wrap. The sun will reflect off the tin foil lid through the plastic wrap and the food will begin to cook. The key ingredient in this process is not the oven itself, but the sun and the light/energy it produces.
Nice directions. This will help me make a solar oven if I ever want to. Oh who am I to be saying “if I ever want to.” I’ll make one tomorrow. Thanks a lot Mae and Clara.
ReplyDeleteAndrew K.
I really liked how you included instructions on how to make a solar oven. It also helped (for people that don’t know how a solar oven works) that you said to “put the solar oven in a sunny area flip the tin foil lid open, and place the food under the plastic wrap.”
ReplyDelete-Jake
My comment is about the Solar Cooking by Mae and Clara. I really like this article because you told us what we could use with the solar powered ovens. I also really liked how you told us the steps of how we made the ovens and how they work. You guys also told us what we could make with them!!
ReplyDeleteYou guys did a good job!
-Kate
I love your blog article it gives me clear directions on how to make a solar oven and then bake with a solar oven. Great job!
ReplyDelete-Audrey
I think you guys did a really great job! Solar Cooking had really detailed steps on how to make them and how to use them. I felt like that if I needed to make a solar oven I could use it your directions.
ReplyDelete-William