There may be a new, energy efficient way to roast food coming soon. According to InventorSpot, a food stand owner in Thailand has invented a solar powered roasting oven.The oven uses mirrors to focus sunlight on the food, and in the case of its inventor the food is chicken. The inventor says he got the idea from childhood memories of playing with magnifying glasses to focus sunlight. He claims that his oven can roast a small chicken in ten minutes on a sunny day and twenty when it's cloudy out.
The article also comments on the food stand owners' power bill: nothing. In a time of rising energy costs and environmental worries, this is the kind of invention that needs to be developed and promoted world wide. It's great for third world cooks, but I hope it can be developed for my kitchen as well.
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4-22-2008 @ 10:16AM
Alex Falk said...
We used to do this in gradeschool, solar cooker, all you need is a box, aluminum foil and a wire hanger.
Countless weenies were cooked this way during the summer.
Granted glass mirrors would be much more efficient.
Hackaday.com had someone that made a huge parabolic mirror out of small mirrors and it got hot enough to obliterate a VHS tape.
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/03/23/solar-death-ray/
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4-22-2008 @ 10:21AM
Philip said...
Does no one remember this from Mr. Wizard or elementary school? We made something just like this for science class; though I don't think we could cook an entire chicken in a mere 10 minutes... We simply used aluminum foil lined in a cardboard "frame" (think upside-down square-ish cone) which was open on top but had a piece of glass over it to keep the heat in and bugs out.
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4-22-2008 @ 1:59PM
Felipe said...
Sorry, but what the new about this?. Solar ovens are old, just google solar oven and you'll get a lot of diferents kind of solar oven.
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