Why a Solar Box Cooker...

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Solar box cookers are great tools when it comes to harnessing the sun to cook food.  They run solely on the sun’s rays which makes them the ideal cooking solution for many areas where electricity and fuel aren’t options.  They’re also wonderful for outdoor cooking because they pose little risk of forest fire and are much lighter than hauling fuel around in your backpack.

There are actually more than fifty different variations on the solar cooker theme.  However, they typically fall into three basic designs or design principles.  These include:

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