Solar cooking refers to using energy of direct sunlight to cook and heat food. The idea of using heat from sunlight has been around since the time of Archimedes of Syracuse in the Classical World. The sun provides us with an inexhaustible source of energy. Where the sun shines, you can solar cook. See the infographic below on how many hours you can use your solar cooker to cook at different locations around the world.
Since Horace-Bénédict de Saussure created the first solar oven in the Eighteenth Century, different solar cooker designs emerged. Today, there are three broad categories of solar cookers:
You can pan fry, bake, boil, deep fry, grill and pressure cook. You can use the favorite recipes and regular cookware to cook the same dishes.
Solar cookers, such as SolSource, has uses beyond cooking meals. The intense heat that a parabolic solar generates can be used to
Watch Praxis Prepper combines SolSource with a pressure cooker to heat 4.5 gallons / 20.4 litres of water.