Researching ways to cook, I found solar cookers, solar ovens/stoves as well as

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plans to make them. If you do a search of solar cooker or solar ovens, you will find that they often cost over a hundred dollars in the USA. Sometimes a percentage of the money is to assist people in other countries with obtaining a solar cooker. Right now, I can't afford that. But if you search for solar cooker plans, you will find some plans that you can make them for way less than that. You can also find articles that explain even southern Canada and most of the northern USA can use a solar cooker for months of the year. I was surprised to learn that my area can use them for 3 to 5 months a year when the sun is shining. If you would like to go directly to www.solarcooking.org , then you can. I'm NOT affliated with them, they just had plans in the middle of the page (when you page down) and some wonderful articles. You need to think slow cooking like a crock pot, NOT fast like a microwave or conventional oven on high. There are even recipes on some sites for solar cooking on these. In our area, a solar box oven and reflector combined would be good. The electricity, gas, wood, or other fuel savings would be wonderful for many people. The variety of plans could help people around the world. Many of the cheaper plans are made with recycled materials. Have you ever researched different ways to cook? Have you ever seen a solar cooker/oven/stove? What recycled materials would you use to make one or more than one? Could you afford to buy a ready-made one to help out people in developing countries? Would you make a cheap one now and maybe, later on, make a better one from better materials? Had you ever heard of such easy ways to use the sun for cooking before now (other than sun tea, before I learned of this, no, but I learned of this a while ago when searching for uses of solar)?