I Bought a Solar Oven on Amazon for Van Life Cooking

I love Solar Ovens!!! Free cooking from the sun for the rest of your life--what's not to love. The best ones here can cook year-around and cook anything an oven can cook. Best of all, it's impossible to burn your food and it tastes better!!
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[@rebeccatreeseed410]

I had a large wooden planter sloped out at the top. Lined it with aluminum foil, topped with a piece of glass (taped edges). Have cooked in it for 15 years. Things don't burn or dry out. I mostly cook in a black pot like a slow cooker, but it bakes too. I live in the NM mountains, sun 300 days per year.

[@MossadGanistic]

I'm going to do that! thanks for this comment! ❤️

[@judywhite7782]

Food for thought on the glass... I saved the glass doors from an old TV stand, the edges are beveled/smooth. An old stereo unit or similar will also have these tempered doors so not as fragile as plain glass.

[@bsteven885]

The review starts at 7:07 -- you're welcome.

[@lilsimonebiss8472]

thx

[@BuddhiYoga7]

@E Marie or actually 8:08 haha . 5 min of how well they cook, i get it!

[@kindredspirit3875]

l0l thank u

[@GoatZilla]

thamk u

[@arroyobaby38]

B Steven -THANK YOU!!!

[@reneebrown2968]

The best thing about a solar oven is not heating up your house. I dont mind baking inside in the winter but lawd have mercy, you can't be in my house if you have my oven on for more than a few minutes.

[@SunOvensolarcooking]

An All American Sun Oven is designed to use in winds up to 40 mph. It is 20% bigger than the Global Sun Oven used in the video. It can be turned on its side to be able to cook from the first lite of day or for winter cooking. A 21-pound turkey can be baked in a baking bag.

[@solarboondocker4597]

I love my sun ovens but please, 40 MPH winds? Not a chance

[@Allen-yv3ue]

I trimmed the swing metal rake at the top in older Sun oven, more swing angle ( purchased in 2007 - still works)

[@johnproffitt3272]

When I was doing construction in Kansas, I took an aluminum cake pan, put a piece of 3/4" double foil faced insulation in the bottom of the pan with the top side painted flat black. I could put a TV dinner in the pan in the morning and cover it with the clear plastic lid and I had a hot meal for lunch.

[@lindasue8719]

After I watched this video a few years ago I bought the inexpensive foil model. I don't remember the details of my test but it got a mug of water extremely hot in very little time! I keep it permanently in my vehicle now because whether camping or in an emergency, if you've got some sun it would be a great way to warm up some water to drink or wash with!

[@WH6FQE]

That is actually the smaller Global Sun Oven, not the All American Sun Oven. I own both versions of the Sun Oven. The All American Sun Oven is blue and is 20% larger than the Global Sun Oven model that you demonstrated. This past Thanksgiving I was able to cook a 20-pound turkey in a cooking bag in the All American Solar Oven, so the 20% size increase makes a big difference.

[@MakelleBell]

I'm so bummed Solavore went out of business.

[@partridgepear]

I have had a Sun Oven for years and it's wonderful. You can make one out of a cardboard box, glass to cover the opening, and tin foil on the flaps. It can boil water for you or cook if the sun is out.

[@Magicmushroommasteryguide]

Doesn't the heat destroy the box?

[@Darkdusk87]

Best video out there that really goes into the true pros and cons and which may be a better option for your particular needs. Awesome video! Thank you!

[@katcankan7129]

I never knew that such a device existed.

[@sherried79]

I love to cook too and I am so thankful for all the info others share here. Thank you for the video. Even 4 yrs old it's still useful

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

Mr. Jim, can you please do your rib recipe cooking demonstration!? and other things you cook in the solar ovens, please! UPDATE: okay I found your Jim's solar boondocker channel and see how he does the ribs. Thanks so much, Bob and Jim!

[@boldlygorv]

Hey Jim! Where will you be cooking this Thanksgiving? 2018?

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

BoldlyGo RV, ha! 😁

[@katwoman6523]

Lol! Yes, please, send us your coordinates!

[@madhabitz]

lol... I am so there :)

[@thegeneralstrike6747]

WERD!

[@solarboondocker4597]

Currently I am in Greeley, Colorado and did a 10 pound turkey in the sun oven.

[@pepejohn9307]

Yoo wicked set-up, does anyone have any estimations for cooking time : weight : volume? Season average... Recommendations for auto (?) sun tracking? Polish grit size of Al for max reflection? Can't wait to join the SolarClub! Cheerssss

[@gibsongirl6816]

Jim is excellent! That is the most thorough review I have seen and I watched close to a hundred easily. THANK YOU Jim!!!!!!

[@authordebradickinson]

Hi Jim! Just want to tell everyone that if you ever camp with Jim and he offers you food, jump on it! :)) I know it's not your fav, Jim, but I still want the Solar Flair Oven and have ever since I interviewed you on my channel last year after you cooked baby back ribs for all of us. Yum! Thanks for this comparison and review. HugZ!

[@solarboondocker4597]

Hi Debra! I am glad to see you well. Remember that there is not the best of anything, just the best for you. The SunFlair is a perfectly functional solar cooker.

[@threedogsandacamper503]

After watching this I ended up buying a solar oven/cooker. I got a Gosun Sport which doesn’t cook a huge amount of food at a time but is relatively compact and heats up fast and to a high temperature. I’m even finding that it cooks with just the light of a heat lamp (cooking brownies right now). Thanks for the informative video!

[@solarboondocker4597]

The gosun griull looks like it will cook a more usable amount of food/ larger pieces

[@readoryx373]

THANK YOU for these wonderful, practiced questions

[@nancypeplau9747]

On the All American just clip a wire or thin stick to the top of the reflectors to stop them from flopping in the wind...great video, thanks

[@1thinkhealthy]

Thanks for the video. Will you still be making one about the other solar ovens you mentioned?

[@greggm7056]

Jim ought to design and patent a solar oven based on his knowledge. Thanks Jim and Bob!

[@robync7358]

Jim should have his own RV Cooking show on KZbin.

[@solarboondocker4597]

I will start doing more cooking on my channel here soon. As it is I only have one video about baby back ribs posted.

[@charlescarabott7692]

I dont cook or watch cooking programs but i would be interested in solar oven cooking.

[@michaelbrown2690]

@@solarboondocker4597 1

[@shelbyhensley8660]

Cooking show is a great IDEA.

[@mustseevideos7777]

@@solarboondocker4597 this would be very interesting and timely Jim! The world really needs this knowledge due to the looming blackouts in the US and Europe! Thank you for sharing!

[@roaminginmyrv6765]

Hey Bob, where's Part 2 of the solar ovens? I'm thinking about getting the Solar Flair but I'm waiting for the review. Been 2 weeks. What's up?

[@Endeavor545]

I have heard the Solavare is great. I had a parabolic type that concentrated the heat to the bottom of a cast iron pan and it got to well over 400 degrees F. I gave it away though. It was the size of Texas....

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

Just think of all the energy people waist just preparing meals. Wow!

[@christiansanchez8063]

He never talked or compared the other two smaller Sun Ovens 🤦🏼‍♂️ I was waiting to know what he thought on the All season Solar oven (the yellow one)

[@experiencesolarcooking2683]

We are using solar ovens in Haiti. Haiti is tropical country we can use solar ovens for cooking. We are learning a lot from

[@charlesuh60m]

I can't wait to see the other video with the all season solar cooker. I'm thinking about getting it but want to see your review. Thanks for your reviews.

[@soggynomadpress]

You had me at 'you can not burn something'. Thanks as always for the great info gentleman.

[@dogwhisper2384]

I bought the All American Sun Oven and it is awesome. I baked muffins and chicken with gravy. Love it!

[@MaLiArtworks186]

"Bob, you broke it!"

[@linda3703]

Oh no! I was waiting for info on the green one, since I just recieved a used one a month ago! Hope you get the second video up soon!

[@shaymcquaid]

Hey Jim!? What time is dinner?

[@willsmooth45]

Jim I’ll camp with you and supply the food if you cook it 😂❤️😂❤️😂

[@solarboondocker4597]

Music to my ears, bring it on!

[@danielobrein6496]

I have never seen anyone cook with a solar oven

[@finnblu3002]

If one of those units can toast non- frosted pop tarts... I’m in.

[@nanai5]

Honeys! wonderful explanations! thanks! I would like that you made some videos with recipes and instructions to cook on them.

[@محمدالامريكي-ج9م]

No gosun?

[@Michael-ou9pp]

0:52 "I love to watch people eat." That's not creepy lol

[@milesandcoffee]

The Sun Oven is very well made. I cook meals in it with no hassles. Best investment I've made in a long time.

[@johnsparkman1126]

I just upgraded my older American Sun Oven (like yours) with the newer leg and focus points and the newer glass for less than $90. Well worth the money. Do need a longer cover snap. Love mine, it will go in a Sprinter garage I will build in a couple years.

[@algray2604]

really eye opening,, now im hungry thank you jim and bob i spend a lot of time cooking on the Trager.

[@resourcefulgirl]

Thanks gentlemen. Great review. I'm leaning towards the All American.

[@rambling_rob7035]

Love my Solavore oven.

[@FreeRV]

Hi:) Cody wanted try samples of cooking;) Thank you for a lot of helpful information! It’s looks like a fun and interesting way of cooking!

[@travellover9446]

FreeRV I love Cody:)

[@ladlad6215]

Cody is great 🐕 dog

[@shenlun]

Jim and Bob, great reviews it would of been nice demonstrating them. 2. if you could have just 2 solar ovens for the rest of your time which 2 would you pick and why?

[@kissameaburame376]

Great video, It was interesting

[@wecanmakeitbuttercup]

Does anyone think Jim sounds like Vincent Price? Great Review.. enjoyed!

[@speakeasydoorman4966]

He does....good call

[@raybon7939]

all part of the retirement plan.

[@hopemore3493]

Anxiously awaiting part 2. Jim, Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@manofthetombs]

American Sun Oven, 2021 price with Preppernet discount was: oven, drying racks (no pots), a few assorted items included was $450 if I recall.

[@off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez]

I need one desperetly propane is crazy high. I usaullay cook on woodstove,but I need a quick oven I want cookies without burning them LOL

[@RwP223]

Microwave ovens use man designed frequencies and harmonics, Sun ovens use natures spectrums of frequencies and harmonics, probably more benefits than taste

[@retired_man_about_town]

you could store pot/pans inside the oven when not in use.... for the larger ones, i would think.

[@lightdark00]

Where's the video covering the other two ovens? I made the cheap option, cardboard and aluminum foil, and I use a 5 quart cast iron Dutch oven to bake a 4 cup flour load of bread. Only wish I did a better job gluing and not reusing foil from my first failed square type oven. Scattering sunlight is not letting me get the max temp I should be getting, because it's huge from a large tv box.

[@hopemore3493]

Thank you for this, I was leaning towards the Sport Oven, now I know I want one. Can't wait to see the comparison of the other two. I built one but it's just too heavy and big to use on the road.

[@mkbartley07]

Thanks Bob and Jim!

[@hopntobewheatnotatare5314]

I'm furious...this crap should be taught in every school. Why are we wasting our time on algebra when we dont even have the basics of how to truly live? *Plus, this looks fun to learn...kids like to learn when its interesting.*

[@gwendolynfloccari4927]

Wish I knew about this the past 4 summers. It's hot where we live summer days 100 or above many days, I could have made more meals with using stove.

[@maribethspence9458]

I've seen the All American one before at this organic farm I used to volunteer at, but never got to see it being used to see how it worked. So this was nice to see

[@TravelDuster]

whatever is taking advantage of free nature as it is sun rays and weather is great :-) like when we, or i put water bottles on top of my car so i can take a shower with some less cold water lol :-) thumbs up and take care all

[@kellydoyle]

Great topic! Is there a part two? Or did I miss the review of the small ovens??? Was very interested in hearing about the folding ones and how they work! Wonder if they’d cook a frozen pizza!

[@solarboondocker4597]

I have cooked both fresh and frozen pizzas in the ovens but have not tried it in a reflective cooker. I have cooked bread in them so I do not see why not.

[@lockergr]

This is a really useful video, but I really don't understand how that first oven works. Where do even set the pan? It looks like you would have to set it on the side. I don't see the lid either.

[@wally1957]

I was thinking why not heat the RV during the winter with the solar oven. Just add pipes and a small solar fan. Do you think it would work?

[@owlnationlegal4228]

think you underestimated the appeal of this sort of RV/Car living blog since an increasing number of people are choosing "mobile lives". Besides rent/mortgage/rat race reasons, I dumped 5 homes I owned by the beach in SoCal to first live in a schoolbus for 2 years and surf the entire coast, then switched to a sailboat, earning enough to eat by carving wind gen blades for rv's, sailboats, ham radio heads, cabin dwellers; a great green craft to know. Today I live on a boat at anchor, all wind/solar, zero petro and to me its cleaner than my life when I was addicted to fuel and utilities. Rent/travel expenses are even lower and I can get by on $300/month, so if I have a $2000-$5000 month as a software engineer (#1 skill) or electrician (#2) or just want to make neautiful, powerful wooden wind gen blades (#4 skill) or play keyboard in a rockband (#3 BUT #1 for love) I can do whatever the heck I want, even volunteer to teach classes in youth centers. You can't buy time and hamster wheel lives chasing rent and mortgages is a fine way to fry your life to a crisp. Whether you choose a backpack, an old van, a nice RV, a log raft on a river or a sailboat and a lagoon in Fiji, anyone stuck in a polyester stufffed apartment is dying and killing our planet, while folks on the road, in the woods or on the sea are free of most of those headaches, and have a much smaller footprint on Earth. I do suggest anyone who tried an rv and liked the freedom find a harbor and bid on a sailboat auction/lien sale. Any sailboat 25 ft or more will do as long as its got fair rigging, sails and a rudder and it'll probably cost you just $100-$200 bucks. That c4aft can take you to an anchorage...free rent...or a marina surrounded by rich folks who need work done. If you can wrench, wire, sand, paint, you'll never be out of work and can charge $20-$100/hr depending. BYW the windgenzen (c0m) sitr has free blade carving classes and electrical diagrams and folks in RVs can make a great rig for less than $100 and stop buying petroleum! (Except to drive of course). Thanks for the tips on solar ovens. I want to make one.

[@maggiem.2919]

Such great information. Thanks guys!

[@SpazzYettii]

Gosun solar ovens, I love mine I got the sport. Check it out if you have not already. I only cook for me. It works for 2-3 people.

[@josephrobi6806]

It is strange that we got to wait until 2020 to get those sun oven. We must a been indoctrinated not to start that before and now is like boom 💥 is there and the construction of it is ridiculously nothing 😅

[@deezynar]

Does anyone make a permanent unit, rather than these portable ones?

[@deezynar]

@@andreawisner7358 I guess astronomers are unable to point those giant telescopes at anything in the sky because they are permanent.

[@solarboondocker4597]

I have seen a sun oven built into the southern side of a house with doors opening into the kitchen.

[@deezynar]

@@solarboondocker4597 That's the idea I'm looking for. Do you recall if the oven rotated to track the sun, or was it fixed at one angle?

[@solarboondocker4597]

@@deezynar I was at a fixed angle. It's here on you tube somewhere.

[@deezynar]

@@solarboondocker4597 OK, thanks. I'll hunt for it.

[@brianjones7521]

To put out that Thanksgiving Meal you better know your stuff. Many opportunities for disaster. Jim knows his stuff.

[@offgridmangogrower]

If just baking cakes and pies and you want it to last….what brand can you suggest.?

[@WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK]

Definitely going to try a solar oven! Great video, gentlemen!

[@birchandmorley]

It appears the solarvore sport oven company is now out of business

[@allglad]

12:55 ish...it can be leveled in ground thats has acceptable ground to grab a shovel and dig so that the angle changes? ...I think so although I dont have one.

[@terianderson7951]

Wonderful review! Thank you! I wonder about the Solavore oven, though... it doesn't seem to be available any more, and their website seems to be closed to the public. :o(

[@cathyjackson8337]

Show him baking something.

[@solarboondocker4597]

You can see baby back ribs cooked on my channel with more to come

[@angiekrajewski6419]

There is always ways you can do to prevent it from turning over.. your

[@stevee.asherhouseofasherpo8367]

Wish this would work in western Kentucky.

[@serialcarpens290]

My beagle would love if I cooked ribs in this thing on the ground

[@pamcox]

Does jim have a KZbin channel?

[@pamcox]

@@mikemead2315thank you

[@roberth.9558]

Enjoyable and informative. Thanks guys.

[@karen90631]

Where's the video review of the next two cookers?

[@cchoi108]

So fantastic about the TG dinner!!!!

[@lilyandrose8557]

Jim talks like a movie star from times gone by; I like it.

[@russellsherwood2315]

Jim, can you bake in them?as I bake a lot of breads

[@maggiefriedrichs777]

Thanks for the information. As always Bob, you find the best people to give us the best information available. Looking forward to hearing about the other two cookers.

[@angiekrajewski6419]

To fry a parabole sun oven is perfect !!

[@farismeh27]

7:15 review starts

[@redwoodsgal]

So where is your solar oven cooking show?

[@1polonium210]

In low light, you will get more heat from the All American Sun Oven than the Solavore.

[@solarboondocker4597]

This is true, The sport oven is limited to 300 degree F while my sun oven gets to 375. So it depends on what you are cooking really. Somethings benefit from higher temps. Others like ribs do better below 300 degrees

[@SK22000]

Added benefit is preventing a fire in your rv

[@sha2222sb]

Have you tried the Hanes cooker

[@epicscoreCS2]

gosun is just so much more efficent

[@mazibagnagar434]

I want one of this can I get? How can?

[@sunshinemodels1]

Bob loves purposely typing and saying "year-around" to piss off the haters

[@upriver7047]

Very excellent and informative review! I've been very curious about these ovens but there is not a lot of real useable info out there. Looking forward to your reviews of the smaller ovens! Thank you, gentlemen!!

[@brandie7291]

How do you know the temperature of what it’s heating at? Is there something that tells you the temperature?

[@TacticalGhost007]

Yes, it's called a thermometer.

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

I’m going to build One

[@matthewronson5218]

Gets to the direct comparison at 7:15