What's the use of Solar cooker?
Is it efficient?
INSTRUCTIONS TO USE A SOLAR COOKER
1. In order to have the best heating conditions, the shadow of the wooden bar should be parallel to the band in the middle of the cooker.
2. The reflection of the sun has to go into the solar cooker.
USES OF SOLAR COOKER.
1. Making jams and Jellies solar box cookers are great due to the fact that they are great for simmering.
2. Canning fruits and tomatoes in a solar oven (only fruits and highly acidic items like tomatoes can be canned using a solar oven)
3. Ironing clothes using the old-style hot-irons that were heated on stovetops, or a charcoal iron does the same by heating the iron on a parabolic cooker which is the only cooker that can get hot enough and fast enough.
It is estimated that the efficiency attained by the solar oven with the parabolic collector at 150 minutes is 53.62% whereas, for the same time duration, the solar oven efficiency without a parabolic collector is estimated to be 35.86%. The solar oven would be very useful to conserve electricity and healthy food cooking