Global Sun Oven
I received a Sun Oven from my husband as a gift this year. www.sunoven.com He had actually owned one years ago when he was a teacher in Illinois – he has been tuned in to this green stuff far longer than I. I look forward to some of WI first sunny days this spring so that I can “play” with it. The instructions say that after a few times, I should feel like an expert! The oven does not burn anything, and if you are cooking anything besides baked goods, you will not need as much moisture, because the oven also doesn’t dry things out. the trickiest thing to learn is focusing it so that it is in sun, not shadow for the entire cooking period – so you need to think ahead and plan for the shade progress across the cooking area. On a sunny day, the oven will reach 300 degrees in 20 minutes. The sun oven web site has recipes too, which I will check out – but here’s my goal – I want to be able to make muffins and breads for The Green Leaf Inn’s breakfasts and add them to the menu so that our guests will be able to experience solar baking. On sunny days, they may also see me using the oven to bake some muffins for the next day’s breakfast. I will be selling them too, so they can purchase one to take home. Each purchase of a Solar Oven helps support Sun Oven’s outreach projects in deforested countries on 5 continents. As the population grows, this way of cooking will help to save the forests we have left. I’ll be back to let you know how my first cooking lessons go!
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on April 21st, 2009
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