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Due to the success of the post: How to Build a Parabolic Solar Oven. It seems only logical to write a follow up post on the art of building a parabolic solar cooker.

There are so many different designs of solar cookers out there, choosing the right type of solar cooker can prove quite daunting.

So which solar cooker is the best design I hear you ask…

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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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Building a parabolic solar oven really isn’t as difficult as it may seem, once the basics are first understood.

There are many popular solar cookers in use today, including the Sun Oven, Sports Solar Oven, and the Cookit, to name but a few. However they all adopt either the box or trough design. Very few designs are actually parabolic, those that are, are generally quite expensive like the SK-14, compared to the more popular designs. The box solar cooker for example, is simply a cardboard box with reflective panels and a pane of glass which traps hot air in a box.

So what is a parabolic solar oven?

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Popularity: 64%

Tags: alternative | build | how to | oven | parabolic | solar | Solar Cooking

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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%

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