Things To Do With Sun Ovens:

Things to do with sun ovens:

Here are my notes from a webinar that was presented by SunOven.com

any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

You can cook, purify water, bake, roast meats, boil, steam and dehydrate.
Sun oven can get up to 350 to 400 degrees.
Use because people don’t have access to fuel. Seals for canisters are only good for about 5 years
Need to see how much propane you can legally store 2 for 20 lbs. canister.
Nothing burns and nothing dries out because all items in oven have the same temperature
60 % comes from sun 40 %comes from reflecting light.
Adjust sun every 30 min and a chicken will only cook 15 min longer than a conventional oven
Pays for itself by energy savings by not using cooking fuel.
Outside temperature does not affect performance. As long as the sun can cast a shadow. In winter can use an oven but hours for use is shorter.
Baking bread. Preheat sun oven. Rise or proof dough until lit is 1/2 to3/4 an inch below tje top of bread pan. Spray a light mist of water on dough just before placing in sun oven. Then it can raise the rest of the way in the oven. Mist of water can help your bread brown. One loaf 45 min and 2 loaves over an hour.
Sun cooked beans are soft and yummy add 2 1/2 cups of water for each cup of dry beans. The ratio of beans to water will vary depending upon whether you are simmering or boiling. Or you can simmer all day better to have extra water.
Sun baked turkey. Bake a turkey up to 21 lbs. put in a taking bag. Tie baking bag tightly. Do not cut slits in baking bag.
Sun oven are great for rehydrate freeze- dried preparedness foods. Use 26% less water. Put in sun oven and will rehydrate fine.
Hard boiled eggs without water. If have fresh eggs, they should peel easily from sun oven cooking. Anywhere eggs touch each other get brown spots. You can cook them in tier half cardboard trays. Put in for an hour. If spin and it spin well its cook if it’s wobbly cook it for another 15 min. if take out 30 min early from fridge
145 for 10 min can kill bugs and eggs in food supply
Cook food half way put in oven and let it cook rest of the way.
You can use any pan that is oven paste. Enamelware. It’s popular and nice because it’s thin and dark.
Dutch ovens take an hour and half longer to warm up than other pots.
Dutch ovens are good for slow cooking or to let it continue cooking.
You can use glassware or corning wear.
Silicone: muffin tins etc.
Avoid stainless steel pots. Shiny pot. Put a dark dishtowel and over it. p
On tin foil, put shiny side facing the food and a dark dishtowel to cover.
Pasteurize water 165 degrees for 6 min to make it safe.
At 212 degrees water can boil.
Some will get cheese cloth to filter out objects for dirty water.
Herbs should be dried at 100. At a higher temperature, the essential oils and vitamins break down.
The thinner you cut food the faster it will dry.
Buy parchment paper so it can be used as shelf covering for dehydrated foods.