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A collage of some of my favourite solar cookers.

1 - Parabolic Solar Cooker Array
2 - Parabolic Cardboard Dish
3 - Parabolic Solar Cooker
4 - BCK
5 - HotPot

Each week a new batch of solar cooker pictures will be posted including a review of each solar cooker.

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Popularity: 22%

Tags: bck | hotpot | parabolic | solar cooker

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What is the perfect solar cooker? How should it function and perform? And most importantly should it be cost effective and comparable to the more conventional cooking methods thus offering an alternative to our current reliance of fuel sources?

Solar ovens aka solar cookers fall into 3 distinct categories; the box solar cooker design, trough design and the parabolic cooker design. Each design offers its own features, benefits and drawbacks: -

For more information on the different types of solar oven, please visit types of Solar Cooker

Taking these factors into account, one must balance up the pros and cons of what the needs are for the end user. The predominant market for solar cookers includes developing countries, Tibet (lack of fire wood), China and India.

The Western world is now starting to harness solar cooking with the advent of peak oil prices starting to affect us all.

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Popularity: 66%

Tags: box | cooking | hotpot | parabolic | sangli | solar | Solar Cooking | spotlight | sunoven | trough

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