cooking/dehydrating with the sun

mountainmoma's picture

I love using my solar oven ( Sun Oven) , and it is very durable, I have been using and abusing it for something like 15 years so far.

I use no energy to run it, and the heat stays outside and not in my kitchen !

Today so far I have baked a couple cookies for a snack, and made a loaf of bread, later I will heat up some dal for dinner. The temperature today in the oven was around 325'F.

Since there is no downside, I can just take dough out of the refrigerator and make a few at a time to eat warm with fresh goat milk....

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I ground the wheat berries this morning, and let it rise cooler, inside for the first rise, then formed it in a pan ( most of it, some of the dough I put in the fridge to use for flat bread) and set it outside in the shade where it is warmer for the second rise. Then I messed it up by trying to slash right before putting in the oven, which caused it to deflate some of the amount it had risen ! It was still plenty risen though

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steamed up the oven

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To eat a piece with butter

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ClareBroommaker's picture

I was just telling my spouse that I thought I read to do the second rising of a loaf of bread right in the sun oven, as it comes to baking temp. We haven't cooked bread in it yet. I think I will do some rolls for my first try. Here's a cake from the sun oven though....We had black beans from the solar oven for lunch today.

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My sun oven was already too hot to use for 2nd rise The sun oven, closed up on the deck was over 200'F when I opened the reflectors up ! I wanted a second rise for an hour, it just would have been cooked with no time to rise. The air temp in the shade was likely only in the 80's

Beautiful looking cake --