Parabolic Solar Cooker ~ Ultra Lightweight “snap together” design. sun powered “off-grid” cooking04:33

video of a parabolic solar cooker. it works very well, is very inexpensive, is lightweight (around 3.3 pounds) and when disassembled the dish fits in a (15.5″ x 12.5 x 4″) size box. *not much bigger than a large phonebook. when assembled it is only 3 feet across. it will cook just about anything that you would normally cook on the stovetop and in about the same time. i use various metal pots and pans that i painted with a high heat flat black barbeque paint. i try to always use glass lids when cooking to keep any splatter from hitting the solar cooker.
Because this video is long, ive included a general timeline. this should make it easy to fast forward to various sections. the following is a general flow of the video in minutes and seconds. From 0:00 – 1:20 (1 minute and 20 seconds) i talk about the cooker itself. then from 1:20 – 2:35 I talk about the burner assembly I designed. At 2:35 I show focal point and water heating. At 3:55 I show water boiling. At 4:33 pasta cooking. At 5:55 heating sauce. At 6:40 cooking soup. Then 6:59 – 7:27 cooking grilled cheese. 7:33 – 8:21 frying eggs. 8:21 egg sandwich. Then at 8:27 – 9:18 caramelizing onions. And finally from 9:18 to 9:57, I show where I store the cooker and the box that it came in.
I bought the metal stakes and some mounting hardware from home depot (about $11.00) and the flower pot holder and high heat flat black paint for painting the pots and pans from ace hardware. got almost everything for about $92.00. one point about safety, the soil where i live is practically hard as a rock. this is why i didn’t need to secure the stake more. however, in many areas of the USA and many areas of the world (probably most areas) the soil will probably not provide enough support at all to hold a pot or a pan safely. For extra PICS and INFO. go to my YouTube channel page and click on the (photo gallery) “Website Link”