Thursday, September 3, 2009

Solar Power Fun

What a great science week! Bug decided to make a Solar oven and try his hand at cooking lunch on it. So he's spent the week doing some research on Solar ovens- and found this pdf file that has lots of information and instructions on how to make a solar cooker. Yesterday Ben and Bug got it all laid out on the cardboard, and cut it out. Today- Bug glued the foil onto it, assembled it, and cooked his lunch out in the sun. The pan on the left is a fried egg, and there's 3 hot dogs in the pan on the right. He put the hot dogs in first- they cooked for about 1 1/2 hours. He put the eggs after a while, and they were done in about 45 minutes.





Bug with his Solar cooked egg.The finished product.He had fun with it- and wanted to try popcorn. lol- not sure if that will work or not- but he put it out in the oven, and it's hopefully cooking right now.

4 comments:

Diana said...

Yummy!!! Kenna had fun cooking muffins this summer in her mini homemade solar oven. I was hoping to see you guys at our ice cream party, hopefully next year. We miss you guys.

Anonymous said...

Impressive! What a great lesson plan!

I don't think an egg would cook out here where we live even with the oven.

But where we used to live in Texas
you could bake cookies on your dash board!

I know it would work there!

Stephanie said...

Wow! I wanna come to school at your house. I gave you an award -- http://starkravingbibliophile.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-blog-award-for-stark-raving.html

Kendra said...

That's been on our plans for our big camping trip this year.. The sun is closer and much more intense here so now I'm interested to see if it takes longer here to cook foods or not!