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Setting Up and Understanding the Solar Oven

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Amazing way to cook when the power goes out! Welcome to the prepper kitchen!

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What happens here

Paul demonstrates the quick setup of the solar oven, which involves unfolding its reflective panels and adjusting the angle using a built-in tilt mechanism. He explains that the oven's reflective surfaces are made of highly polished, anodized aluminum (86% reflective), which will not oxidize or rust. He also points out the internal cooking chamber, noting its ability to reach temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, consistently maintaining around 350 degrees Fahrenheit, suitable for baking, boiling, or steaming. The inner box is made of black anodized aluminum, and the outer box is ABS plastic, with non-toxic food-grade fiberglass insulation between them, allowing the exterior to remain cool to the touch even when the interior is very hot. He also mentions the wind resistance and the ability to stake the oven to the ground.

Goal: Properly set up the solar oven and understand its operational principles.

Tools and materials

  • All American Sun Oven Sun Oven — Unfolding and adjusting the oven
  • Glass Cleaner Windex — Cleaning the reflective surfaces

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all right guys so one of my passions not only is farming and playing music with my guitar and banjo and and harmonica and enjoying that stuff but one of my real passions is cooking and i love to cook what's the use in raising all these animals here on the farm if we're harvesting animals and i'm not cooking delicious wonderful meals for myself so what we have here are three sun ovens they're all set out right here and paul with sun oven has come out here to our farm and he's going to be talking us through what these critters are and how they work now paul's getting ready to go paul i guess you're going to uh prepper going to prepper camp prepper camp here in north carolina north carolina this weekend nice awesome i'd never heard of prepper camp paul said he was in the area and i heard of paul through my friends doug and stacy with off-grid with doug and stacy and they're good friends with paul and they basically i think they referred you to me didn't they yeah i think so yep so show us what we're cooking paul i prepped the chicken up man this is the chicken you've got all ready to go and as you said everything goes better with bacon oh yeah what do we got in here we got some carrots potatoes um a little bit of onion bacon and we're gonna cook a chicken this morning awesome well we've got a couple more things we've got some bread rice i'm gonna put the camera on paul and let him just show you what we're doing well thanks josh for inviting me to be here it's really exciting to to have some time here with you and from introduce this set from our mutual friends doug and stacy for those who aren't familiar with this is a sun oven it folds up it carries like a suitcase it only weighs 23 pounds and setting it up takes a matter of seconds it's a simple one piece construction just opens up your food goes in here and then it actually has a rack that if you raise or lower it to follow the sun your food will stay level on the 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…

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