Cooking Beans and Rice

rack and it has a lake built into the back that allows you to raise or lower it to meet the sun wherever it is in the rise now by the way this is designed so you can cook in winds up to about 40 miles an hour it does come with stakes you can stake it into the ground so it won't blow over in the wind and it's got a latch in the front that latches the reflectors in place but the sun reflects off of these reflectors they're made of a highly polished anodized aluminum they're 86 percent reflective but they'll never oxidize rust or corrosion by the way you clean them with windex or vinegar water any kind of a glass cleaner you put your food in the chamber here in really perfect conditions it gets up to 400 degrees very consistently 350 degrees and it can bake or boil or steam foods this inner box is made of a black anodized aluminum the outer box is made of abs plastic but between the anodized inner box and the plastic outer box is a very thick bat of a non-toxic food grade fiberglass insulation so going to be 400 degrees inside the chamber you can touch anywhere on the side and you don't feel any heat it's got indicators that help you align it with the sun so there's no guesswork with that the glass is made of a low iron glass that filters out less sun and allows it to get really hot and there's two ways to cook in it let's say you're going to make a three pound chicken if we preheated the oven on a sunny day put the chicken in realign it every 30 minutes we could