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Solar Cooking Project (Box Cooker)

This project is made by Joshua Ma and Jacob Khuong

What is a Solar Cooker? A solar cooker is a device that uses the power of the sun in order to cook food. The thermal energy transfers from the radiation of the sun, reflects off of a mirror and onto a pot, and then the conduction of the metal will make the water rise inside which is convection.

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Here are the 3 most common types of solar cookers and the pros and cons of each design.

General (All of them)

Pros:

  • Cheap and simple
  • Can be used to bake bread and cake
  • Eco friendly
  • Non-electric/gas

Cons:

  • Gets lower temperatures
  • Can’t fry food
  • Must be sunny and hot enough
  • Takes longer than other methods
  • Your food will only be partially cooked if the weather changes while cooking.

Box Cookers

Pros:

  • Solar Box cookers will usually maintain cooking temperatures between 200° F up to 350°
  • Easy to make
  • Can be in a rectangular prism or cylinder shape
  • Better at retaining heat than the other 2

Cons:

  • Harder to transport

Parabolic Cooker

Pros:

  • Most advanced and efficient than the other 2

Cons:

  • Hard to make
  • Not as good as retaining heat
  • Harder to transport

Panel Cooker

Pros:

  • Easy to make
  • Easy to transport (You can make it collapse)

Cons:

  • Must be hot enough to cook the food
  • It might take longer to cook
  • Not good at retaining heat

For our project, we chose to create the box cooker. We chose the box cooker because it was simple, easy to make, and effective.

Want to know how to make this? Check out our procedure! Very easy and simple. For kids aged 5-10.

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Here is a 2 minute video I made explaining the experiment and results at the end

 

Works Cited:

“Solar Panel Cooker Designs.” Solar Cooking, 21 Oct. 2016, solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Solar_panel_cooker_designs.

“Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a Solar Cooker.” 6 Negative Effects of Alternative Energy | DoItYourself.com, DoItYourself.com, 3 May 2010, www.doityourself.com/stry/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-a-solar-cooker.

Keiren, et al. “The 4 Types of Solar Cookers.” Insteading, Insteading, 4 Jan. 2018, insteading.com/blog/solar-cooker/.

 

 

 

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