Solar Cooking

Comment by David Atcheson on July 13, 2009 at 3:41pm

This is the cooker I made at the Sustainable NE Seattle solar cooker workshop on July 9.

I used two dark bread pans for this banana bread. The second pan was upside down as a lid for the first pan with the batter. I used twisties to secure it (the pan handles have little holes). During cooking, the pans were inside an oven baking bag, slightly inflated and tied off with a twistie. I elevated the pans inside the bag using a two small, rolled cardboard "feet."

Cooking time was about 3 hours starting at 1:40 p.m. in sunny conditions. I think it was probably done after about 2 hours, but it was still delicious after 3 hrs if a little drier than typical banana bread.

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