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Ok, so unless you are truly inspired to reduce your carbon footprint you most likely will not be cooking in your solar oven daily. But, if your environment has enough sun then you really have nothing stopping you. I completed these plans and when i was done i was so excited. My wife told me that it was an adult version of the famous 'EZ Bake Oven".

First off you should know that commercial solar ovens are available on the market and are way more advanced than these simple plans, but these plans will cost you nothing. The best part is that you will most likely have all the materials handy which makes for a really fun and easy project.

So what do you need?
A coupe of cardboard boxes
Aluminum Foil
Elmer's White Glue (Make sure that it is nontoxic)
Invisible Tape (Make sure that it is nontoxic)
Newspaper
Black Construction Paper
Stapler
Scissors
Plastic Wrap
Pencil

Lets Get Started
I built my solar oven with two cardboard boxes, these can really be of any size but the larger they are the more materials you will need. Make sure that one box fits inside the other box, and that there is a 2-3 inch space around the smaller box.

Insulating the large and small cardboard boxes
Next you will need to line the bottom of the larger cardboard box with wadded up newspaper. After you have done this place the small box in the larger cardboard box and begin to fill the gap of the smaller cardboard box with wadded up newspaper as well.

Line the insides of the smaller box
You now will need to line the sides inside of the smaller cardboard box with aluminum foil, this is also where the tape comes in handy, like i said make sure that you have nontoxic invisible tape to hold the aluminum into place.

Line the bottom of the smaller box with black construction paper and the purpose of this is really just to absorb as much heat as possible.

Creating the Reflector
You can place another piece of cardboard on top of the large cardboard box and trace the shape of the box to build the reflector.

After you have cut out the traced shape draw a 2-3 inch line inside the piece of cardboard and cut it out. Next, cover this piece of cardboard with aluminum foil (try to get the foil as smooth as possible for maximum heat reflection). Tape or glue the aluminum foil to hold it into place.

Attach the reflector to the outside back of the large box. You can also hold the reflector in place with a metal coat hanger and you can just bend it to the shape that you need.

Start Cooking
You will now be cooking with a really simple and low cost solar oven. Happy solar cooking!

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