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My New Solar Oven

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Experiment Fun Food
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Lance Barker
Exploring my own creative expression and building things that help people.

I usually don’t like cooking in the Summer. Heats up my kitchen. Since I don’t have A/C I want to avoid this. Here is a solution. It’s kinda fun to play around with different food stuffs to cook. So far mostly it’s been veggies and chicken.

It’s just a glass tube, vacuum sealed with a dark coating, a simple reflector and a tray that slides inside the tube.

I’m also experimenting with cooking times and placement of the oven in my yard.

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