Solar ovens are devices that concentrate and retain heat from the sun to cook foods or disinfect water.

The ovens may have integral cooking containers but more commonly a black pot is placed into the oven.

Advantages: * free! * “Low and slow”²⁾ techiques adapted from crockpot recipes may be useful.

Disadvantages:

The acronym CARD describes what is necessary for solar cooking:³⁾

• Collection (reflectors)
• Attraction (black pots or painted oven bottom)
• Retention (“greenhouse” enclosure or insulated box walls with cover)
• Duration - time in the oven

One might add S for Sunshine.

• Global Sun Oven (aka Burns Sun Oven), used by Bob Wells of Cheap RV Living and Nomadland fame.
• Amazon search for solar ovens

• solarcooking.org solar oven plans
• Pocket Full of Wanderlust's $5 DIY solar oven (from the wayback machine)
• backwoodshome DIY solar oven

• Bob Wells' article on solar ovens