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Scott listed his contact email twice and his phone # once, feel free to use either to connect!

If you add enough reflectors and the angles are correct, it should cook. The less space the better but if you use black pots and pans, it will at least work as well as a crock pot. For reflector angles, you can test them by adding one reflector and see the sunlight captured entirely in the cooking area of the base. Take that reflector off, then put the next one on, to look for the same, and so forth up to a potential of 4 reflectors. You will need to move them as the sun moves, and one thing I see a lot of people do is put the whole thing on a large lazy susan so you can turn the whole gizmo to face the sun. I'd recommend joining facebook.com/groups/solarcookingdoityourself and sharing pictures of any variation you choose, and the group woudl be happy to add more tips...

A tube of the size Dan and others have used is no longer available for individual orders that I'm aware of. I'd suggest checking eBay and other e-tailers for tubes, though most I see out there are only 2.5" diameter, a tricky small size for cooking things.

Thanks! Megan went the whole 9 yards preparing to demonstrate the Wonder Oven and discuss in detail how easy it is to use and to urge us to use retained heat cooking as part of our daily lives.

No sound. It was just me muttering under my breath as I dodged the lumber stored on my deck :)

It certainly does! It made me wonder what happens in the winter if you leave the oven door open does that add heat to the house?

Could be -- my visit with The Frugal Green Girl illustrates how one attempt at extra room heating with DIY solar set up lead to it doing both, just hanging out a window -- th-cam.com/video/40eVigEwzYY/w-d-xo.html

Thanks so much! My visit with Linda was one of my first online attempts and though Zoom and Skype can sometimes wash out the sentiment behind the ideas, Linda's enthusiasm is contagious and so glad I could share her positivity with the rest of the solar cooking community!

There are several in other conversations--look up Dave Chalker, Steve Harrigan, GoSun/Patrick Sherwin, and Johan/Erika Van Wyk. In order, solar box cooker with electric backup, barrel/box cooker with rocket stove attachment, electric heating element in a tray that works in the GoSun Fusion, and another box cooker on a stand, with electric backup. Also, the Sun Oven Villager has a pipe running into its half-barrel shaped box cooker, that is set up to take a propane wand when clouds roll in or if one wants to cook at night.

You can contact Brent for current prices, his info is included in the video.

Yeah I try to pick the best one from my phone-cams, or the H2N podcast audio recorder, or sometimes, the one with the least "wind fry" :) Hence my title "Rank Amateur Videographer"!!

@@SolarCookingMuseum A set of wireless lavalier microphones would improve the audio quality greatly. They are available very inexpensively these days. Clip one to yourself, have a separate one for your guest.

Laura's vacuum tubes were special order size from China, a smidge over 4" inner diameter and about 28" long. There are many on ebay that can be ordered in bulk in the 2" to just under 3" inner diameter.

Could you specify any time frame in the video you find problematic for audio? I reviewed the whole video, except for a couple spots where two of the cameras' audios overlapped by a smidge, I'm not hearing any issues.

Great idea--when I hit the road I always pack my sunplicity.fr portable/collapsible deep parabola cooker. Very fast + it can be used where there are fire bans, as there is no hazard of the focal point escaping and even inside the parabola, it's not hot enough to start any combustibles on fire. Depending on how much space you have, a box cooker like the Solar Oven Society/Solavore Sport might make sense to be bungeed to a trailer so you can cook while rolling down the road :)

@@SolarCookingMuseum I honestly didn't think I could start dinner while riding and have it done for when I stop. Good call!

I'd thought about this since starting to collect cookers, and recalling Steven Roberts' recumbent ride across the country in the '80s-- bikepacking.com/plog/steve-roberts-computing-across-america/ All his tech gear minus the solar panel would fit in our cell phones of course, and thinking of the average bike trailer I've seen, the Sport would fit nicely. Maybe even the Sun Oven though it's 2x the weight at least. Looking forward seeing when you cook your first meal while pedaling :)

The satellite dishes and some manufactured parabolas are "shallow" dishes, as in, the focal point reaches outside the edge of the bowl, so they need monitoring and prudent placement for safety. However there are "deep parabola" cookers where the focal point does not leave the inside of the bowl. The SunPlicity, for instance, is a deep parabola and can be used for camping where there are fire bans. Also, they don't need to be refocused every 10-15 minutes like a shallow parabolic cooker. The SunPlicity can be set "ahead" by as much as 40 minutes, and cooks find for 80... I've never had to cook in it for more than 40 and so never move it. Anyway, the earliest manufactured parabolas being shallow dishes unfortunately created the concern for fire safety, but more makers are coming around to the deep dish style.

Check in with Tom via his web site www.solarovenreflectors.com/

I started a list of the most likely environmentally conscious celebs that we might approach, and where we could implore them to direct their creative energies--once I reach the point I might "brighten their doors" with a pitch, I'll let my whole network know!

Hi Do you happen to know where I can purchase some of these books and also Tor’s book? I loved this video and all the others! Thank you!

I neglected to put his web site in the comments, I just did but here it is again -- solarschoolhouse.org/ I'd recommend the usual book sites like Powells, Alibris, Half Price Books, etc., to find some the books by title etc., not sure if the Solar Schoolhouse sells to other than schools and teachers...... But no harm asking...

Send me a note to the email listed in my "about" section, and I can forward to Andy :)

Thank you! It is a labor of love :)

Unfortunately as Dave announces in the video, he has retired and is hoping to sell the business. You can contact him through the web site, email is listed here: www.sunbdcorp.com/

he's retired, so you'll have to look on eBay or other sites like that

I wonder if the glass back then was higher quality... borosilicate? tempered? I hear so many cases where the thermal shock imploded tubes, maybe it was carelessness with a heated tube and sloshing cold soup like the disaster on one cooking show on cable...

@@SolarCookingMuseum never had that issue…yet.

@@SolarCookingMuseum They are supposed to use borosilicate for these since they handle temp changes much better than soda lime glass (and even better than tempered). But China being China, it's possible that they have been switching out the borosilicate for tempered or even soda lime glass. It's actually not that difficult to make a vacuum insulated cooker. Not using tubes, but larger cylindrical glass containers.

De acuerdo, la mejor de ambos mundos--solar fotovoltaic y termal!