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Solar
Oven - Versitility is in the Air
Solar oven
harnesses the sun’s power to cook food. It lets you bake,
boil or steam food with the power of the sun. There is absolutely
no fuel needed for cooking in solar oven. Solar oven provides
you the amazing experience of creating your favourite recipes
as you feast upon natural sun baked treats.
Features
of Solar Oven
The key feature of solar oven is the power of the sun. It doesn’t
matter whether there is a power shortage at your place since solar
oven doesn’t depend on the power supply. However, it can
cook anything that a conventional oven can cook.
• Solar oven lets you cook anything – bread, cakes,
muffin, pizzas, vegetable, poultry, fish, meat, casserole, grain,
pasta, dessert and many other things.
• Solar oven provides cooking in high temperature - 360o
to 400o Fahrenheit, which is more than enough to boil, bake or
cook.
• Since sun-baked food remain moisture and has less shrinkage
than conventional ovens, you will never get any kind of burning
or scorching in the food.
• Solar oven is totally safe.
Each solar
oven is constructed with a strong plastic or steel case, which
is durable and easy to clean. It uses reflectors and tempered
glass doors to retain the sun’s powerful heat. It also features
an easily adjustable, self-contained leveling leg to maintain
the oven’s maximum exposure to the sun.
Solar ovens are totally portable; when it is closed it looks like
a small suitcase and also has a carrier handle.
Cooking in
solar oven is a great pleasure. You can enjoy the peace of mind
of knowing that as long as the sun is there you have the power
of cooking in solar oven.
Types
of Solar Oven
Box
Cooker – Box cooker is the common type of solar
oven, comes in both rectangular and circular shapes. It consists
of an enclosed inner box covered with clear glass or plastic,
a reflector and insulation. Box cooker provides slow but even
cooking. It is easy and safe to use.
Panel Cooker – Panel cooker consists of flat reflective
panel that focus the sunlight on the cooking vessel without the
inner box common in box cookers. Though these solar ovens are
easy to use and quite cheap they are not able retain much heat
for cooking when the sun is behind clouds.
Parabolic
Cooker - Parabolic cooker retains more temperature than
other solar ovens. It requires more precision to focus the sunlight
on the cooking vessel. However, if the sunlight is not focused
exactly on the cooking vessel it will not cook the food. The main
drawback of this oven is the risk of burns and eye injuries.
Just a few
thoughts as you are outfitting your kitchen. There are many more
kitchen articles in our kitchen
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