SUNGOOD Solar Cooker

This product does not work after 4 hours in 24 degrees sunshine the food was barely even warm. It would have been warmer if I had left it on the window sill. It is badly made, doesn't fit together properly, and doesn't work. I want my money back.

For a relatively modest outlay, it is entirely possible to cook meals for free, but it's true, you need to be aware of a few things to be successful. This type of solar oven can direct the sun to your meal, concentrating the heat where you need it be to cook your food. First of all, you need to use either clear cookware, or black or dark coloured pots. Shiny metal pots will just reflect the heat away instead of absorbing it. It needs some help to retain heat, even if the sun dips behind an occasional cloud. It comes with a big bag you can enclose your pot in, which will help retain the heat for longer- an inexpensive pack of turkey roasting bags can be used and reused when the one provided wears out, or, at home, a covered clear pyrex container will do an even better job. You also need to keep the solar oven facing the sun, adjusting its position every half hour or so, to cook in the fastest possible time. There are other ways to help, like choosing a sheltered position, using additional reflective materials to help concentrate the sun's rays, etc, but when you get it right, this is a brilliant, fun way to take advantage of a sunny day to cook yourself some delicious food.

I purchased this because it seemed to be a good price for my first solar oven experiment. The cooker comes in a box, and inside the box, packaged in a nice canvas bag, but upon opening it up, I discovered there are no instructions and no recipes at all. I was hoping to use it for a camping trip the next day, so I decided to take a chance and try to put it together myself. It was easy to figure out where the sticky reflectors go on the panels, but trying to figure out how it folds and clips together was a nightmare! I couldn't figure it out. Finally, I found a pic on the Solar Brother website and managed to figure it out based on enlarging that... But it seriously took me FOREVER. It's not intuitive at all. Once it is folded and propped up, I was unsure about how long the plastic tabs would be good. It doesn't seem like the sturdiest set up. I imagine after a dozen or so uses, they'll probably just give up and I'll have to duct tape it together or something.Also to note -- you won't find any English language documentation on this thing online -- it's all in French. And Google Translate doesn't really capture anything on the manufacturer's site anyway.Once I got it set up, I tested it with a few different pots. Since there's no English instructions or recipes, I had to wing it. I used a black mental enamelware pot with a lid, and an amber glass pot and filled both with water. The black pot got much hotter. I'm not sure if it ever got to boiling, but it did burn my fingers when I touched the pot. The amber glass pot got hot, but was always touchable.I added rice to the enamelware pot when I started to see tiny bubbles in the water to see if it would cook. Sure enough, it did cook the rice! It took about an hour and a half. It was in full sun the whole time.I have pretty mixed feelings about this product. On one hand, I guess it works. It's the cheapest pre-made solar oven I could find, so I guess you get what you pay for, but it was still $50 and I'd hoped it would work better than that. I don't know how much use I'll get out of it and based on my experience, I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone else.

J'ai acheté ce produit pour compléter mon four solaire sungood de la même marque. Et éduquer mon fils par la même occasion sur l'énergie solaire. En plus de l'intéresser à ce sujet on prépare des goûters on fait sécher des rondelles de fruits pour en faire des chips, fondre du chocolat pour un goûter gourmand. Le fait qu'il y ait un thermomètre nous permet de comparer les journées avec moins de soleil et la durée de cuisson. Donc ça me permet de comprendre aussi l'utilisation de mon four solaire. Vous voulez payer moins d'électricité alors il faut apprendre à s'en passer quand on peut. Ceux qui s'intéressent à la cuisson solaire apprendront beaucoup avec ce kit pour débuter. Il peut faire office aussi de séchoir. C'est pour cela aussi que je l'ai acheté. C'est vraiment ludique et pratique. Ça peut être un premier pas avant le four solaire ça permet de se décider et d'apprendre en famille tout en se régalant!

Easy to set up and use

Correspond à la définition.

Comme j'ai également un four solaire en parabole qui fonctionne à merveille, j'ai voulu tester celui-là et je ne comprends pas comment il peut chauffer alors que les rayons ne convergent pas vers la cible ! J'ai abandonné après avoir voulu faire chauffer de l'eau dans une casserole. Après je n'ai peut-être rien compris :(