If you’ve been following my blog for years now you may remember when I used to post about my sun oven cooking experiments… I miss those days. 🙂 Sadly, all of the large trees around my house tend to block out most of the sunshine and so my lack of willingness to work around that problem has caused me to find other uses for my time.
Fortunately, other folks carry the torch so-to-speak. Today, Wranglerstar does so and he does it with flare using the One Earth Designs Sol Source Solar Cooker. I found it funny that his kid calls it a “Solar Death Ray” about twenty seconds in which I thought may seem to be a great way to describe this type of solar cooker to a young boy, lol. Henceforth is shall be named the “Solar Death Ray.”
Since it’s a huge parabolic solar mirror you could, of course, use this for more than just cooking. It could be a great way to start tinder for a fire, perhaps as a signaling device, to extend or amplify a light source, and much more.
Most of the video is of assembly and setup–which was a bit too tedious for me–but you can skip to about the 15:30 mark to see the solar oven in action…
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