Thursday, July 21, 2011

Solar oven confessions

Now I remember why the solar oven lives in the attic.  We fired up the house oven after all to finish baking our brownies.  I think to give solar cooking a real chance I need to restrict my experiments to between 11am and 3pm (daylight savings time which is 10am-2pm solar time).  If I have successes in the future you'll hear them here.  Failures may or may not be reported...

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Heat-wave baking

Katherine wanted to make brownies today, but we are in the middle of a two or three week heat wave with temperatures over 100.  We're finicky about using the indoor oven even in an average summer, so it was time to retrieve this little box from the attic.  The is my much-upgraded second solar oven.  (The first was cardboard.)  This one was meant to be built from plywood, but about that time I met Scott (and his sheet-metal leaf-brake) and the rest is history...