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Solar StoveTop Cooker : Pattern, Instructions, Recipes
by: Jack Howell

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780962906978
ISBN: 0962906972
Label: Morning Sun Pr
Manufacturer: Morning Sun Pr
Number Of Pages: 16
Publication Date: October 26, 1998
Publisher: Morning Sun Pr
Sales Rank: 280591
Studio: Morning Sun Pr

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Product Description:
Imagine a solar cooker just like the grill on the top of your stove that when you focus it to the sun it will reach 650 degrees F within minutes and only weighs 3 pounds. It will hold a 15' frying pan for grilling sandwiches, frying chicken, poaching fish, or making pizza. It will hold a pot of water for steaming corn or vegtables, and a coffee pot for perking coffee. The Solar StoveTop Cooker is like moving your stove outside except it is lightweight and portable--you can take it anywhere. You don't have to plug it in and it's a lot more fun to use. The pattern makes it easy to build. All the critical angles that are important to get the proper focal point have been included. All you have to do is cut them out, trace them onto cardboard and assemble the cooker. There is no figuring to do and just a weekend of work. Included is a 16 page instruction booklet that lists all materials needed to build this amazing cooker. It gives complete and easy step-by-step assembly instructions with 27 illustrations and photos, offers a few recipes and resources for more solar cooking information, including a solar cooking discussion group on the web. There is even a phone number to call if you run into problems or if you just want to talk to an expert. For a weekend of work you'll be cooking outside with free heat from the sun, with no smoke or pollution, without ever using a single kilowatt of commercial power, and you'll be doing something good for the environment.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- short term solar cooker
Using a solar cooker year after year requires a box constructed of material that will last. Cardboard does not. That's okay for short term or camping but if you want to use it regularly, it should be built of something like heavy wood. Ours is a wooden box with a glass top for prevention of bugs and dirt, then the reflector panels at the top. They are adjustable to catch the sunlight and the whole thing sits on a pole burried in cement. The box can be rotated to catch early or late sunlight which makes it usable for many hours. Too bad the author did not include some adaptable directions for a longer lasting solar cooker.

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- Nice kit!
We did the whole thing in a day and had just enough light left to test the focal point with cardboard and have it burst into flames!

I'd give it 5 stars, but there's one detail left out of the instructions: When you're tracing out the reflector patterns and gluing them to the reflective material, make sure you've laid out how many of each identical shape have to go "right side up" or "upside down." We traced all the multiples of the various pieces onto the posterboard at once and used 3M spray adhesive to attach uncut chrome mylar to the untraced side. When we cut them out, 4 were backwards... coulda been worse!
And about that mylar - use it. It really is like a true mirror, it's thin, and it bends well. Much better than the tinfoil I've seen on other units. We got a 50ft.roll of chrome mylar at our local art store for $17.00.

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- Works great, but go slow and think things through.
This is easy and readable, but be very patient forming the pieces, and don't count on getting done "in a weekend." It took me about ten lunch hours - and I could wait between lunch hours for glue and paint to dry. They could also have put some more tips in on how to get things to work well.

F'r instance:

1) Have a rolling pin or something you can roll the reflector material down with onto the glue to get it as flat as possible. You might not need to do this if you can find roll mylar or you cough up for Monokote.

2) Hot glue works great but you have to go FAST: it will start to set up by the time you get the bead laid.

3) Use a permanent glue stick to fasten the edges of the reflective material. If you get a big one, you can even use it to stick the front. Rubber cement does NOT bond well to Mylar.

4) If you don't want to use foil and can't find or don't want ... Read More

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