Solar Cooking Photos Page

This page is dedicated to everything solar cooking!

Use this page especially for solar cooking photos and essays on events and happenings that you would like to share in order to promote the joys and benefits of cooking with the power of the sun.

June 2012 Monument Valley Solar Cooking Eagle Scout Project

Arriving in Monument Valley, Utah Navajo Reservation for our week of teaching solar cooking for my son Joshua's Eagle Scout Project

Joshua setting water to boil on the new Solar Burner he finished assembling.

-Monument Valley

Preparing Lamb/Mutton Stew with all the veggies ready to go into the Sun Ovens

Placing the Mutton Stew in the Sun Oven- Monument Valley, Utah

Learning how to use the Global Sun Ovens. Three of these Sun Ovens were given, through donations, to several deserving individuals and families-Monument Valley

Learning about the Solar Burner Parabolic and how it functions

Two Sun Ovens and a Solar Burner braced for the winds, just in case a gust tried to tip one.

Lamenting the puffy clouds and lack of sunshine. They were intermittent so it did not affect the cooking very much.

A fresh baked batch of sweet rolls from the Sun Oven, which took about 35 minutes to cook

Fresh Sun Oven Sweet Rolls which disappeared quite quickly.

Showing how to wash down the panels of the Solar Burner with hot, soapy water                        ...a 60 second job

Demonstrating how to pop some popcorn on the Solar Burner in a cast iron frying pan

Finished Solar Parabolic Popcorn for our late afternoon snack

March 03, 2012 Solar Cooking Demo at Carl Hayden Community High School, Phoenix, Arizona

Here you can see what two solar box cookers can do with bread and a full chicken dinner. Both were made from materials found in any household or building supply store. 

Another example of a solar box cooker doing its job of baking cookies.

And some brand new solar box cookers given to village members in Bolivia.

A man who manufactures solar box cookers for sale and use in the vicinity of his shop in a country in Africa.
More solar box cookers being used in Peru. 

**Below are some of the photos taken during the October 18th 2008 Solar Cooking Class held on behalf of the Vegetarian Society of St. George.

Here I am giving some instruction and information on solar cooking to the participants while the solar cookers do their work.

**We had six cookers going at once to cook up grilled onions, broccoli and cauliflower, refried beans, baked cinnamon apples, and peanut butter cookies.

Here below we have a photo showing several parabolic solar cookers being used on an industrial scale in southeast Asia.

The second photo shows a solar cooker sales representative in Africa who goes throughout her area teaching solar cooking skills, repairs and sales of cookers. 

This is what happens when one foolishly leaves a parabolic uncovered and unattended

Browning ground beef on our new Solsource Parabolic November 2013 (wrong date on photo)

Los Tres Caballeros working in the snow (rare snowstorm for St. George) 25 F outside and 350 F in the ovens

Solar Cooked Gingerbread Giant Cookie Puzzle (it takes ten minutes to cook in the Sun Oven)

Reheating Homemade pizza in the Sun Oven for lunch on a cold December day. I prefer it heated this way rather than the microwave which makes it soggy.

Bart Orlando's Giant Satellite Dish Parabolic Cooker (2700 F it can generate; can melt metal)

* More Solar Cooking Photos 1

And some more photos of solar cookers

And a few more photos

*More solar cooking photos 2 
* Solar Cooker Photos- St. George, Utah Summer 2009
Videos on the major commercial Solar Cookers

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