Solar Cooking in Las Vegas
Imagine baking food with no energy costs. Imagine baking in summer months without heating up the kitchen or house. Imagine baking food that tastes better than almost any form of cooking. You’ve imagined a whole new way of cooking...
With Sunshine!

Solar Cooking is Fun and Practical
Bake wonderful bread, cook delicious roasts or cook perfect rice every time. Food cooked with a Sun Oven stays moist, and the additional juices make the food taste better. It is almost impossible to burn food (except cookies) in a Sun Oven.
Cook in Your Back Yard
Food does not have to be watched when cooking, even if you accidentally leave it in the oven hours longer than usual. Food cooks perfectly every time because moisture naturally stays in the food. Your family will think you have discovered a new way to make food taste better than ever before. You will be amazed at how simple and easy cooking in the sun can be. You will smile at the dinner table, knowing you didn’t use a drop of utility energy!

Many Styles of Cookers
There are many styles of solar cookers that you can make which work reasonably well. We find the Global Sun Oven is best because it reaches higher temperatures allowing you to use regular recipes.
Best Pot to Use
Though many types of pots will work with solar cookers, the best is dark, thin and has a lid.
Solar Cooking in the Third World
Benefiting Women and Children
Solar cooking is great for us in Nevada or the USA, but it is becoming essential for survival in third world countries. Women and children benefit the most when cooking with the sun. Wood-fuel used for cooking is fast becoming scarce throughout the world, making it more dangerous for families to obtain, often needing to travel 10-20 miles from their village.
Benefiting Women and Children
Solar cooking is great for us in Nevada or the USA, but it is becoming essential for survival in third world countries. Women and children benefit the most when cooking with the sun. Wood-fuel used for cooking is fast becoming scarce throughout the world, making it more dangerous for families to obtain, often needing to travel 10-20 miles from their village.
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Solar cookers can be very influential in helping the health of families in sunny parts of the world by reducing the health hazards associated with cooking fire smoke and unsafe drinking water.
2 Billion People Lack Clean Water
Finding clean water in many parts of the world is becoming harder every day. A solar cooker can pasteurize water safely for drinking. Pathogens and harmful bacteria in collected water can be easily killed using sunlight.

Water Purification Indicator
This simple device called a WAPI is made out of inexpensive materials to help the user know when water is safe to drink. By putting this small plastic tube in a jar of untreated water, then putting the jar in a solar cooker, the special soy wax melts when the water is safe to drink, saving costly fuel normally needed to boil water.
Tools to Help Families
A nice solar cooker like the Global Sun Oven would be invaluable to a third world family, but a solar cooker can be made out of simple local materials like cardboard and aluminum foil. Refugees and orphanages throughout the world are relying more upon the free energy of the sun to stay alive.
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Villager Sun Oven
The world’s largest commercial solar cooker will cook 50 loaves of bread at one time, providing hundreds of loaves of bread and other pastries each day for villages that have fuel shortages, or the fuel is intermittent and expensive. 12 to 15 women benefit from good paying jobs in the village bakery using the Villager. It can cook up to 1200 meals a day.
There are 200 of these giant cookers in third world countries helping small villages maintain a bakery. Most Villagers are donated by groups and clubs. One Villager can save 364,000 lbs of wood a year. The Villager and other solar cookers can make a huge difference in forest habitat and the health of nearby villages. You can help sponsor these life-saving solar ovens in many areas around the world.
The Gift of Solar Cooking
You can help spread the word about the gift of solar to your friends, associates, and youth throughout the world.
You can help spread the word about the gift of solar to your friends, associates, and youth throughout the world.
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Organizations distributing solar cookers to Third World: sunoven.com & solarcookers.org
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You can pick up a Global Sun Oven at Vegas Trailer Supply or order them from the two organizations listed above. Next time we will talk about using the Sun Oven for emergency preparedness. We will also discuss other solar products that will help keep your family safer.
All the best, Mike

