Solar Cooker - Invention from the Idea of Reflectivity

A solar oven or solar cooker is a device which uses sunlight as its energy source. Solar Cookers are a form of outdoor cooking and are often used in situations where minimal fuel consumption is important, or the danger of accidental fires is high.

There are a variety of types of solar cookers: over 65 major designs and hundreds of variations of them. The basic principles of all solar cookers are: Concentrating sunlight, Converting light to heat, Trapping heat.

Solar ovens can be used to prepare anything that can be made in a conventional oven or stove—from baked bread to steamed vegetables to roasted meat. Since solar ovens are placed outside, they do not contribute unwanted heat inside houses.Solar cookers use no fuel, which means that their users do not need to fetch or pay for firewood, gas, electricity, or other fuels.Solar cookers do not produce any smoke. Unlike cooking over an open fire, children cannot be burned by touching solar cookers, which are made from the cardboard or plastic and do not get hot.

Panel Cooker: The HotPot cooking

vessel consists of a dark pot sus-

pended inside clear pot with a lid

Box Cooker: Sun oven

Parabolic Cooker