There are many different types of Solar cookers, however they all follow three basic designs: -
Box Solar Cooker:
Box cookers are the most common type made for personal use. There are over several hundred thousand in India alone.
Despite the name “box” cooker, they are made in both circular and rectangular shapes. They consist of an enclosed inner box covered with clear glass or plastic, a reflector, and insulation. There is a wide variety of patterns and plans for the box cooker. While they do not heat quickly, they do provide slow, even cooking and are extremely cheap to make. Box cookers are very easy and safe to use, and fairly easy to construct. Box cooker Building Plans
Panel Solar Cooker:
Panel cookers are flat reflective panels which focus the sunlight onto a 
cooking vessel without the inner box common in box cookers. Panel cookers are the easiest and least costly to make, requiring just four reflective panels and a cooking vessel, but they are unstable in high winds and do not retain as much heat when the sun is hidden behind clouds. The diagram shows a panel cooker with a dark cooking vessel and thermometer all wrapped in a plastic oven bag.
Parabolic Solar Cooker:
Reflective materials are used to concentrate light and heat from the sun into a small cooking area, making the Sun’s energy more concentrated and therefore more powerful, resulting in the fastest cooking times of all Cooker designs.
Parabolic cookers require more precision to focus the sunlight on the cooking vessel and are therefore the most complex design to build. If the sunlight is not focused exactly on the cooking vessel, the food will not cook efficiently.
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March 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
[…] the sun. Solar cookers concentrate the sun’s energy using various techniques such as the box, parabolic or trough design. All these designs in essence do the same job in that they heat food or […]
April 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
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June 17th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Thanks for reading my blog and guiding me to yours!
When you have this solar cooker up, I definitely want to have a look.
I have a neighbor who has a solar cooker and it’s amazing what she does with it. Being in a sunny country with most people being off-grid, there might be a market for them.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Hi Tropicat
I have added your website to my contacts.
I will let you know when I have my portable parabolic solar cooker up and running.
Many thanks for dropping by, I look forward to chatting more very soon.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
good stuff.. save the our planet!
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October 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Rock on indeed Rune