Solar cooker facts for kids
A solar cooker is a device that uses energy from sunlight. They use no fuel and cost nothing to run. They also help slow deforestation and desertification. Another benefit of solar cooking is that unlike cooking with fire, Solar cookers don't pollute the air. Solar cookers are also sometimes used for cooking outside, especially when using fire is risky or there is no fuel. The solar cooker is very useful. It is a renewable source of energy
Solar box cookers can be made of materials or be manufactured in a factory for sale. There are many kinds of solar box cookers, from small cardboard boxes, that can be used to cook a single meal, to wood and glass boxes built into the sunny side of a house. Although the solar cooker was invented by Horace de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist, as early as 1767, solar box cookers have only become popular since the 1970s. They are found in almost every country of the world.
Images for kids
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Hot dogs being cooked with a solar funnel cooker
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An Indian academic demonstrates a solar cooker in 1963
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Solar oven in use
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HotPot panel solar cooker
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A Solar Oven made of cardboard, newspapers, and reflective tape
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Solar tea kettle in Tibet
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A Scheffler cooker. This reflector has an area of 16 m2 (170 sq ft), and concentrates 3 kW of heat
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The Solar Bowl in Auroville, India
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A solar vacuum tube cooker
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Students perform an experiment using a solar cooker built out of an umbrella
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See also
In Spanish: Cocina solar para niños
