sun oven ⁽¹⁾

It was during the pandemic, stuck at home and with an itchy brain, that I was watching some continuing education content from Appalachian State University in my good old home state of North Carolina, and there was an excellent hour-long lecture (click me to watch) on sustainable cooking using solar. I am cheap frugal, I like sustainability, and I like food. This all seemed like a win-win-win, plus I like to camp so this style of cooking could go camping with me and eliminate my low-key resource-anxiety (like range-anxiety, but for propane).

Through the magic of finding the right influencer for a product I already decided to purchase, I found some sort of sponsorship deal or special to make owning the All American Sun Oven, which I had settled on, more affordable. It was the pandemic. I was sitting at home anyway. So I bought one.

But then the question of what to cook came up. A Sun Oven without recipes is just a gadget and not a tool.

It turns out that in addition to being able to bake anything which can bake at lower temperatures in an oven - my Sun Oven never reports being above 300F and for planning purposes should be considered to be 250F, and that's in full sun at the beach - it can also cook any recipes that could otherwise be cooked in a slow cooker/crockpot.

Bingo.