Note: found this in my drafts folder, from 2009
Ever since going to the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair last year and seeing rows of solar ovens baking fragrant loaves of bread, I have wanted to own one of my own, and reduce our need for propane, which promises to double in price this winter. Last year my son and I made a kid's experiment of a solar oven out of cardboard, with disappointing results.
This year, I caved in and ordered what well may be the Model T of solar cookers, the sturdy, serviceable Sun Oven, for a few hundred bucks. Why rely on propane all the time? Why heat the house on a hot day with a conventional oven?
When my sister came over and saw it, she just asked "Why?"
(Can you tell she's a Republican?)
Make the jump for a report from a solar-cooking noob.