Solar Oven Shoe Box Smores

I wanted something that will mostly work even if the kids are sloppy putting it together.

Solar oven shoe box smores.

Keep the s mores kind of spread out on the black paper in your oven. Just have an adult use a craft knife or scissors to cut the solar oven door. Our door was large to maximize our s mores capacity. When thermal light energy from the sun enters your oven the foil in the box reflects the light heat concentrating the heat into your oven.

How to make a diy solar oven. However my aim was to demonstrate the science principles rather than make something capable of cooking lunch although s mores would probably work. Build a simple box cooker using simple materials in less than 1hour. This is a fun optional step.

Really any box will do. Before you close it up for cooking you might want to tape a thermometer near the black paper inside the box. Here s the science behind how the solar oven works. With scissors or xacto knife with adult help cut a three sided flap out of the top side of the box leaving at least a 1 inch border around the three sides.

From shoe boxes to pizza boxes the choice of materials is up to you. A shoe box or pizza box works well because the lid stays attached. The marshmallows are cooked during absorption when the heat energy is transferred into the marshmallow. How to make pizza box solar oven smores 1.

Put it in a spot that you can see through the plastic liner so you can keep track of the temperature inside your solar oven. Harness the energy of the sun to make the best snack ever invented s mores. The size depends on what you are cooking and how much access you need. Think of getting into your vehicle on a hot sunny day.

Design and build a solar oven with a whole group or as a backyard boredom buster. No campfire needed with this engineering classic. You could probably just make the s mores on your car dash if you wanted but that s less fun and way more messy. In this video you will learn how to make a solar shoebox microwave oven.

Make s mores with a solar oven. Summer stem isn t complete until you have made your own sun oven or solar cooker for melting s mores. In this video you will learn how to make a solar shoebox microwave oven. A solar oven is a box that traps some of the sun s energy to make the air inside the box hotter than the air outside the box.

In other words the solar oven is like a super greenhouse. 1 cut the oven door flap on the box. 2 decorate your solar oven with sharpies.