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Okay, if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. If life gives you intense sun, you cook with it.

We live in Tempe, Arizona, USA.  We cook with the sun and are curious why more people go to jobs to earn money to cook using something that is NOT free. Consider the Henry Thoreau philosophy had he been raised in Arizona instead of Massachusetts. (BTW, in Tempe, we also have lemons)

This page organizes our recent experiments with solar cooking that had the intent of making the practice more widespread. 
  • Approach 1: the box oven
  • Approach 2: the parabolic reflector

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