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Solar Cooking Pictures & Experiments

These are some of the initial photos and notes from my first attempts at solar cooking…

I’m using a 6 quart cast iron dutch oven camp stove.

I love cast iron because it heats up so easily, heats uniformly, and stays hot for much longer periods of time. I figured …


How To Cook With Solar Power

The most obvious way to cook food with solar power is to setup enough solar panels to power a standard stove. There are many better and much less expensive ways to do this though, so we’ll look at some of those options here.

Solar cooking can be done is a wide …


How Much Solar Power Do I Need?

I’ve been reading and studying a LOT of information about solar power in the last 6 months or so, because I’m making preparations to move to a remote area and live off grid. Our plan is to start with a small solar panel setup - just enough to run the …