Diy Solar Oven Cardboard Box

Solar oven diy the base of the project was a couple of personal size pizza boxes i saved in my craft stash just for this project.

Diy solar oven cardboard box. You can make a lightweight solar oven out of a cardboard box if you want a portable oven for camping or your backyard. This is a fun science experiment for kids which really works. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. Printable chart for recording results is also included.

When you select the solar oven cardboard boxes make sure that one of them is of the same size as the glass frame while the other one is 2 3 inches larger. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Diy advanced solar oven. This simple oven works because the cardboard and plastic wrap insulate the oven.

Cut a hole into the large one so that it can fit the smaller one inside. If you want a really heavy duty solar oven that will last a long time you can make one from a metal drum. Made w real wood real glass and real mirror 350f. The space between the two boxes fill with the crumpled newspapers.

The marshmallows are cooked during absorption when the heat energy is transferred into the marshmallow. Prepare the frame and the boxes. The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse allowing sunlight to pass into the box while also keeping the heat in. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside.

The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. Even if you have electricity a solar oven can be an effective energy saving way to cook your food. 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. Lightweight flat pack materials like cardboard can assemble into an oven that harnesses sunlight for heat.

To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven.