Energy Wise Premium Solar Oven, Portable Outdoor Solar Cooker & Camping Oven, Reinforced & Foldable with Support Rods, Carry Bag & Full Guide on Outdoor Cooking with Beginner Solar Camping Recipes

I rarely leave reviews but I had success with this oven, so happy. I was hesitant to buy this after reading some of the reviews saying it doesn't cook. I took a chance as I want to make solar cooking kits. Outside of making my own, this price was hard to beat in comparison to some very similar. Having been in numerous disasters, multiple ways to cook food is a must. Solar cooking is one of the best if you have sun. So after cooking daily, usually 2 meals per day, breakfast and dinner, I decided to buy several more for family, friends etc. My meal temps reached 190- 208F inside the food; safe temps. On average my cook time 1 -6 hrs. I also heated canned goods which took 1/2 hr. -40 minutes depending on volume of food. All were steamy hot, soups, veggies, beans, chili, spaghetti sauce etc. In emergencies I wanted to see if canned goods could be reheated rather quickly with no fuss. I'm satisfied. I love to bake in this oven. I've made several recipe variations of corn bread, banana bread, muffins, brownies, oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies, biscuits. My first cornbread I over baked a tad, see pic. I've also made a small pot roast, meat loaf, chicken breast, chicken thighs, hot dogs, ham/sausage n eggs, diced potatoes, oatmeal n raisins, all turned out great, fully cooked. The one food I haven't cooked in this oven is frozen food, so not sure about those foods. I have a Haines 2 solar cooker. In comparison the Haines 2 comes to higher temps, 350F for me. It does cook faster, a superb solar cooker, more expensive. Even so I'm glad I have both solar ovens. I live in a dense forest, 2700 ft elevation. The day temps have been 65-95F, some days little cloudy with a cool breeze, always filtered sunshine due to trees. That's my biggest challenge, finding the sun. The corn bread in the pic was cooked during the one cool day we had, 65F. PROS Portable, packable; can easily be carried, stored anywhere. Mid size oven, not too small or too big, takes a 5 quart Dutch Oven no problem. Reflective material is very reflective. (wear sunglasses) Temps are within safe cooking (for me) Reasonably priced Perfect for emergency back up cooking An inexpensive gift for anyone, homeless etc.. I didn't have any condensation issues. In any glass lids that had a steam release hole, I cut a Q tip placed it in the hole. This kept steam in the pot, not on the plastic. See picture, can barely see it in the lid hole. CONS Plastic cover does become pliable after several uses, oven can fall in with plastic touching the pot, so can melt the cover and ruin the pot * easily fixed...see note below Zipper was really difficult to line up correctly, once started works great The reflective material isn't as sturdy/ thick as I like. My trivet left indentations in the bottom, so with repeated use will eventually tear the material. Back supports while they do keep the oven from completely falling in, they need to be adjusted often, so can tear the oven. Opening the plastic cover to check food is a bit tricky Is light weight can blow away if windy. Tips Food pot should be elevated at "minimum 1-2 inches" off the reflector bottom with a trivet ( cooks best if there is radiated heat all around the pot) Place oven on a table or above ground on cement, not directly on the ground unless insulated, because Mother Earth will take the heat for herself. Black trivets are best with silicone protectors on feet. ( I used an Instant Pot stainless steel egg trivet, the feet began making dents in the bottom reflector, see pic. I now use my round open stainless steel wok base, more sturdy, no dents, works great, gives more elevation to pot, better heat circulation.) Use glass lids on a black thin walled stainless steel pot (See Haines 2 pot for reference) Use black Granite Ware, or similar thin walled roasting pan, 3- 4 quarts, bean pot etc. Use Turkey oven bags over trivet and pot if needed, increases temp, lowers cooking time. Preheat cooker, especially preheat with pot if using heavy cast iron pots. (I don't use cast iron in panel cookers, so I don't preheat my pots, but many do) Use your regular black pots / pans with glass lids, best if no long handles such as sauce pans. Dark baking pans with no lids; bread/brownie/cake pans, can be placed in 2 tempered glass Pyrex bowels/dishes; 1 bowel for top, 1 for bottom with pan in the middle, pan is sealed completely by the bowels...The round cake/pie pans fit great inside these round bowels, baking is so fast! Follow the sun, in this oven you do need to move it at a minimum every hour. Note See Picture of Cornbread To fix the falling in of the plastic cover and oven I cut/ sanded the tip of a wooden dowel placing it to the middle top of the back panel of the oven, extending it out over the pot to the middle bottom front near the zipper. It has not interfered with cooking evenly. It does keep the oven upright, sturdy and the plastic from touching the pot. The dowel is not touching the pot, nor has it indented or punctured the oven panels. A round thinner dowel would be better, but this is what I had on hand, works great.

It's a blast cooking with this! I also have two All Seasons Solar Cookers and this unit gives me a similar satisfactory experience. The other cookers require large plastic bags or glass pyrex bowls around the cooking pans, but this does not because it has a clear plastic top and zips up to create the greenhouse effect. Both designs use the sun efficiently. This cooker is smaller and much less expensive. I like to heat water in my large granite ware coffee pot, make egg dishes, or cook apples for applesauce. Be creative! You are only limited by a lack of imagination or no sun. This is a fun way to cook!

Worried about how to reheat that roasted feral cat soup you want to eat for supper? Effortless set up in any sunny, zombie free area. Just give it an hour to warm up and use it like you would a slow cooker. 2 hours in the sun and it got up to 200 degrees. Enough to concentrate heat to my iron cast Dutch oven. It is heating veggies as I write this review. I put the Dutch oven on a pie tin to protect the mylar material inside the cooker. It comes with a handy carry bag, support poles, an easy to ready guide and menu ideas, and the cooker itself. You can unzip and pack it quickly enough to scramble back into the safety of your bunker. So lightweight and small it will hardly burden a toddler to pack out of your bug out location.

This oven worked for some items but doesn't get very hot. With that in mind you could heat cans of food in emergency or else make cookies or small biscuits. I am happy with my buy. Great solar project (we compared to a home made style oven). Also good for emergency or for cookies/fresh biscuits while camping.

Tried to make slice and bake cookies. After 8 hours in the hot (90 + F) Georgia sun, the cookies were still not cooked fully thru. Uncertain how this oven could cook anything of real substance if these thin cookies were still raw after so much time in direct sun.

I wanted something that could help us cook without electricity 1) in case the electricity went out!, and 2) to lower our power bill in the summer. We live in southern Nevada and experience extreme heat in the summer as well as 360 days of sunshine a year (that may be an exaggeration, but not by much). So a solar oven is a perfect solution for both of those factors. I experimented with it last summer and managed to boil water, pasta, and make some low grade brownies. This summer, I'll work with it again to see what else we can use it for. Also a mention- I had to buy an oven thermometer to stick in there while stuff was heating up, just to get an idea of the temperature I was working with. The max temperature I saw was about 230*F. It's amazing what solar heating can do! This little oven is durable. It's easy to pack up and take out (assemble), it comes with a little pouch for carrying. Just make sure you rotate it to keep it in the sun. It's a good buy for the price. It's a good size for easy storage (we live in a small home, no yard, limited storage). Would recommend.

It's a little awkward to get it to stay open right, but it heats up well. Got around 150° in the sun. You can just barely cook with it.

This solar oven works great, if you give it time to work. It is light weight, so it is easy to carry around verses the more rigid and metal outdoor/camping ovens. This has the advantage of being silent, containing the cooking smells within the unit, and gives you full visibility to the food while it is cooking. Remember to wear your sunglasses when you look into the oven, because it is highly reflective. Common sized pans fit, too... so not special pan purchases are required. I baked a 9x9 cake in about 90 mins. Denser foods (like meat) will clearly take longer. Inserting a thermometer while you cook the meat helps ensure it reaches the desired temperature.

It's not quite as hot as you'd get from an oven or kettle, but it gets the job done without power to a satisfactory extent. I've heated up tea, water, and ready made soups from pouches with added pasta, and it was all cooked through and hot enough to be enjoyable.

I made my coffee in my usual pan with lid in this solar cooker. It was done in 30 min. I had to use oven mitts to get the pot out. Once I removed the lid I could see the steam coming out. No need of stove, matchbox or gas cylinder. I will try rice next in it. This was in the month of May, I am not sure if this will work in winter when its -30C.

Seems quite strong, and well made, but may require something in the middle to keep the material up when cooking. I have not used this yet, due to the lack of enough sun, but will try it, and forward a review. Hence only three stars.

You need to make sure that you move the bag often to direct to the sun. I use a round black enamel pot with a lid and have to have at least 6-8 hours of sunlight. I love it!

Ne fonctionne pas et le vendeur refuse de rembourser