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  1. Donald R Roberts

    Cooks like a crockpot on sunny winter days.Waiting for summer heat to see how amazing it can be. Must have oven bag or clear pyrex bowls to trap heat.

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  2. Don T

    I don’t understand the 1 star reviews, this thing is great. I make rice and veggies regularly, about 3 hrs. I’ve “baked” pizza, bread, etc with ease. Put a dark, thin walled, pot inside a pyrex 4qt bowel, put another bowel upside down on top. Place in the ASSC – get up to 325deg inside the chamber, slowly cooks the food and the food will not dry out as the chamber traps moisture. I “follow” the sun, rotating and tilting about every hour for fastest cooking (2 – 3 hrs) or just orient in the general direction of the sun and leave for the morning or afternoon for slow cooking. I enjoy cooking with it enough that I bought a 2nd one. Sure you can make your own for less but it will not have the quality – coreplast may seem vulnerable, but this thing holds up to wear. Mine 1st is 3 yrs old and still works just fine and in regular usage. I store in my garden shed when not in use. Or if I intend to use the next day, I remove the sun guide, clips and trivet (take inside) and just turn the box upside down on the deck to avoid rain (or bird droppings!). Couldn’t be easier. I enjoy it enough to highly recommend it.

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  3. CS

    Like many, I was astonished at how well this lightweight contraption cooks food. (in February, no less!)It cooks food in the morning, in the evening, in the winter, and at more reasonable times of sunlight too. I have adjusted the cooker as suggested to achieve a three-hour cooking window, placed a pan of chicken in it, and left at 1:00 p.m. to go back to work. I came home at 5:00 p.m. to well-cooked chicken, still warm.The design lends itself to so many adjustments that it is possible to capture maximum solar energy at any time of the day or year. Of course, adjusting it frequently will achieve the most cooking energy, but setting it ahead of the sun and leaving it for a 2-3 hour period has worked well enough for me.I most like the ingenuity of this cooker. It’s pretty incredible that through intelligent design, plastic board and a shiny surface can be transformed to meet a universal human need–cooking food. It seems like that, with just a few uses, it can be considered a climate change gain. I would love to see this cooker distributed to areas of the world where women have no choice but to cook over open fires.This cooker is not an insulated oven, however, and I think some people have that expectation. There are ovens out there, and they are good, too, but they are not very portable. They are bigger than a suitcase and fairly heavy. I find that the turkey bag and the double bowl set-up does a fairly good job of retaining heat and creating an oven-like environment. It’s a trade-off, but to be able to fold this down to an inch-thick and easily store it is worth it!As for the size, well, are you really sure that you want the large one? All the YouTube videos I watched were of the smaller one (on the right in the second photo). The larger one is the only one that is being sold now, and that’s what I ordered, not realizing the distinction. (It is clearly stated that this a new, larger cooker, so it was my mistake.) I contacted the manufacturer because, aside from other issues, I couldn’t get the large one through my 22-inch door, short of disassembling it each time. I suspect that RVers may have narrow doors, as well, and this might be an issue, in terms of just getting it out of the rain, or out of sight until the next day. I purchased the smaller one which, as you can see in the third photo, I can, with a little scrunching, get through my door. (I have a friend who wants the larger one, so its all good for me.)What I found, though, by having both of them for awhile, was that the smaller cooker is more maneuverable and more ‘human-sized”. The larger cooker is harder to adjust. Forget the wing nuts, use chip clips, but even then, it’s not as easy. It’s not because it is badly designed, it’s because you can’t make human arms longer. It’s just harder to hover over the top of the larger one and reach everything. The larger one also doesn’t have quite as much of a stable non-moving base. This increase in size does have some trade-offs, but, apparently, everyone wants the larger size and immediately started choosing it over the smaller size.For me, however, the smaller size, with a 12 x 12-inch cooking space works quite well. I would so rarely need to use the 12 x 17-inch cooking space that the slightly increased awkwardness of adjusting it and hauling it around isn’t worth it. So, if you want the smaller size, you will need to contact the manufacturer. He said he has about 100 (well, 99, since I bought one) left.Overall, both of these cookers are really phenomenal. They are intriguing, fun to use, and reasonably priced.

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  4. Slam

    Unlike the tubular solar cookers, this unit will make a lot of food. Just yesterday I warmed up black beans w/rice and a chunk of meat in an hour and fifteen minutes cold from the fridge. Used Yodo black anodized pot with lid in a pair of 4 qt Anchor pyrex bowls. These bowls have no lip so I use 3 pcs packing tape to keep them aligned. Food was 160 degrees on a 30 degree day. Looking to do a pork shoulder in a few days. Have a Granite Ware chilli pot which need handles removed to accomplish this cook.This cooker is durable, light and fast to setup. Solar sight makes alignment easy. For long cooks precede alignment and allow sun to track over the cooker. No mess for 3 hrs.

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  5. Desert Mom

    I like it because I can use it to cook a meal using the sun and not heat up my kitchen. I would LOVE it if I could use my huge turkey roaster as the ‘oven’ part to actually cook a family meal rather than relying on it to only be large enough to hold 9″ stir fry cast iron as my ‘oven’. I don’t like having to rely on nylon bags to contain the heat, I would much rather use something non-disposable and full of chemicals to surround my food. So, I will continue to just use very, very small cast iron dishes to cook a few things… but it would be AMAZING if it were larger. :)**Update one year later… I do still like and do use my all season solar cooker camper and increased the stars based on the usability. I did see that the seller did respond to my comment (which was so fantastic!) and he suggested a rectangle roaster. I do have one and I did try it but it didn’t really work for me.. that is ok though. I am using a Lodge 5qt double Dutch oven quite successfully and not needing a nylon bag. I just use it in my back yard and it works perfectly! I do highly recommend and it is quite easy to use. First photo is from last year using two small Lodge woks to roast a chicken with just dry rub added. Yum. Give it a try, I think you will appreciate the ability to not use utilities and to avoid heating your home in the warm months…. and also, it’s just fun.

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  6. Scott

    Easier assembly than the original. Cooks great. Folds down great. Can easily carry in backpack. Very durable. Almost indistructable. However cook with less water than recipe ask for. About half or 3/4. Takes a little practice. I suggest trying alot of recipes and writing down adjustments you made. Ie, water amount and time in full sun and part sun ect. But, this is the best one for the dollar. This cooker or two of them and maybe a solar grill would complement eachother. Also, it almost weighs nothing.

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  7. Mrs. Johnson

    Well made, yes, corrugated plastic but truly, it’s the perfect material because it is quite sturdy, versatile and light weight. I can tell that much thought was put into the design for ease of use and solar effectiveness. When assembling, I didn’t have any trouble except that the instructions were a bit scattered but eventually understandable. I have not been able to cook in it yet but will leave a more detailed review when the sun decides to return to the midwest!

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  8. Paul Brinker

    Works great. Boneless beef ribs, 3hr, brownies, 2hr, beef stew, 4hrs all perfect. Con. It wont last forever, I’ll have to get another

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  9. Linda H.

    When our solar oven arrived it had some nice surprises with it, i.e. a handful of the extra large cooking bags and a large ‘trivet.’ The trivet is actually like a cooling rack and it fits the entire bottom surface to accommodate 2 pans at a time. The rack will also be nice for dehydrating foods, which I love to do. The first thing we cooked was a Cornish hen & carrots in one pot, and rice in the other pot. We readjusted the oven every 30 minutes toward the sun and removed the food after 3 1/2 hours. It might have been a little over-cooked, and we could have removed it an hour earlier. We live in the NW on the Puget Sound in Washington State. It’s July and the sun is perfect for cooking on our town home back patio. It was a warm day and we didn’t have to use the kitchen oven! Also, this would be perfect in case of an electrical blackout (as long as there is sun). We are in love with this oven. It’s so easy to use… and fairly easy to put together (just be sure to follow the instructions; watching on YouTube also helped). Ha – we had a couple neighbors come over to see what it was we had outside and what we were doing. They were impressed. I would buy this again.

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  10. churro

    This thing is bigger than I had imagined, which makes me happy. The first one I ordered got lost in shipping, but the reorder arrived quickly.I am fairly experienced with home made panel cookers, so I have no doubts that this will cook well. Unfortunately, it’s cloudy today so I will have to update after cooking with it.The assembly instructions were clear enough, especially after watching the video on youtube. The instructions mention breaking it in to achieve the proper shape. I found a nice workaround using small office clips and some masonry twine. I clipped the clips to the corners and tied the twine with a prussic knot to draw the upper and lower panels together. Proper shape and more rigid, still adjusts easily.Can’t wait to cook!Update: I just braised 2 cornish game hens in red wine. Ambient temperature was 32 degrees F, 2 1/2 hours and they’re fall off the bone tender. Thin walled non-stick black pot with glass lid inside a large pyrex bowl with pyrex lid. Reached 225 F (inside the bowl on top of the pot- probably hotter inside the pot) and hovered there, simmering nicely. Started cooking at 10:30 am. Love this thing! Six stars!Another update: After cooking the hens, I still had time to bake potatoes to go with them. Those took about 2 hours, came out perfect. Also, today I found some half gallon canning jars that are amber (like beer bottles) which should make good cooking vessels. Also available on amazon in several sizes. Got them at Ace Hardware, Ball is the brand, new product, I believe. I might try solar canning some high acid fruits in these.Another update: Cooked a quiche sort of thing today. 1 lb sausage browned, 1 bell pepper diced, 1/2 onion diced, some frozen chopped spinach, dozen eggs, stirred all together, then into the cooker. 3 hours (partly cloudy), then into a Wonder Bag (look it up). an hour and a half later I had a hot meal on the table for my wife, after the sun had gone down. Still loving this thing.

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