Sun Oven International
The sunny Eugene weather is ideal for cooking with my sun oven. I got this Sun Oven International from Alternative Power Ent. when I worked there. We'll see how many days the rest of the year will be good for sun cooking in Eugene! I've made rice, beans, soups, curry dishes, stir fried veggies, bread, brownies, apple crisp. . . .anything is possible! Noel made my custom casserole dish to maximize the interior volume, the dark glaze helps retain the heat, and can make enough soup for many meals. I've also been playing with what to cook while I'm at the studio all day. In the morning I put all the soup ingredients in the casserole dish, set up the sun oven to face south, then let is slow cook throughout the day. This has worked really well, but need to add a bit more water to rice so it doesn't dry out. But things will never burn because the moisture is retained within the sealed cooking box.
When the sun goes down, or doesn't even appear we can the cook more with our wood fired cob oven in the back yard. Here Noel is cooking a pizza, takes about 30 seconds- 1 minute depending on how hot the fire is in the back.
Build your own! lots of resources available for Cob Ovens or also known as Earthen Ovens
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