After lots of trial and testing, the wide body ASSC is finally in production. The new cooker has a wider cooking floor, no front wall and uses an improved reflector that is easier to clean.   Yes, that is a turkey roaster.

December 21, first day of Winter. Actually, the following day is the first full day of winter. Forecast calls for rain. And rain. Hope to cook solar sometime before Christmas

Solar cooked turkey. Was gonna do a video but that was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

But here are the results:

13 pound bird
Start temp was 35º
End temp was 165º ("done" for  poultry)
Start time 8:20
End time 12:50
4.5 hours or 21 minutes per pound.


After the turkey was out of the cooker I steamed 4 quarts of beets, kale, chard and beet greens.
2 big meals, one cooker, same day.

Breakfast Lunch and Dinner
Camped on the Oregon coast.
First meal - quinoa
Second meal - chicken/apple sausages and portobello mushrooms
Third use - drying firewood
Third meal - started at 5 p.m. Spinach omelet with cheese

Diving the Big Sur coast:
Stopped at a viewpoint for another spinach omelet (yes, my depth of recipes is shallow)

Stopping at Moro Strand State Beach - quinoa again (see above) but spiced with olive oil, garlic and onion

Parabolic cooker works like a stovetop on high. It is known as an attended cooker because it requires watching, stirring and refocusing.
Box cooker is like an oven on medium heat. It is known as an unattended cooker because it cooks more slowly and requires less frequent refocusing.
A panel cooker is like a crockpot. It is also an unattended cooker. It is the slowest of the cookers but still produces good results.
The ASSC is a box cooker that has had the oven door removed and does not have insulated sides. Instead, it achieves the lightweight convenience of a panel cooker and the power of the box cooker,

I need an army. Or at least a platoon to feed. We have had great solar cooking days and if I used my cooker to capacity I could feed everyone on the block. Users have asked for a larger ASSC. What about a smaller?

I have added some recipes and cooking tips and safety tips to the website. Hope you enjoy them

After a very frustrating 10 days of being out of stock, our cookers are now back on the shelf.

Compilation of solar cooked meals

https://youtu.be/dsYf__RB4XQ

April 9, 2015.  Baked portobello mushrooms. Recipe is on AllSeasonSolarCooker.com.

April 8, 2015. Two pots of steamed veggies, pinto beans from scratch and brownies from a mix.

I love solar cooking

Five (5) yes five, cinco, 20 liters, whatever, pasteurized in less than 4 hours

Wow! I put a 5 gallon solar shower in one of my cookers. Five Gallons. That is 40 pounds of thermal mass. Reached 165 in about 3.5 hours. 178 was the high for the day - but I was not really concentrating so could have done better.
Got a solar shower - put it in the ASSC!!!!

The advantage of starting early.

Yes it is still February. I extend my solar cooking day by starting early. In the first 30 minutes my pot of beans has increased in temp by 70º F. Critical for long cooking foods. Winter beans? Yes!

Cooking weather has been fantastic. Here in Southern California we get a winter wind called a Santa Ana. Warm winds blow in off the desert and out to sea. The air is incredibly clear with great (for the area) stargazing. Solar cooking from early morning to late afternoon.

Mid winter chicken
Here is my recipe
Wash Chicken
Put chicken in pot and put pot in All Season Solar Cooker
Remove chicken when done - 6 pounds - 2.5  hours.

Tastes like chicken

Hurry,
If you did not receive an All Season Solar Cooker during the holidays, now is your chance. Please help me set a record month. Six more cooker sales will do the trick.

Thanksgiving Turkey and Sweet Potatoes

Thanksgiving day was bright and sunny here in SoCal.
The turkey (16 pounds gross*) went in the cooker at 7:30 a.m.
Starting temperature was 45º
Five hours later the Turkey was at 160º
Then 2 things happened:
1. The family ready to eat
2. A high cloud obscured the sun.

Solution: The bird was placed in a conventional oven for a few more minutes until the temperature was correct.

Sweet potatoes
4.5 pound gross
Scrubbed then rubbed with olive oil
Way done in 2 hours

Lessons learned:
You may have all day to cook but if the family meal is planned for noon - you have half a day to cook.

*gross weight includes the food and the pot

First time out with the wide body prototype. Great ribs. 

Just added some great videos to the allseasonsolarcooker.com site.
Or you can check them out here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBfAvUUd4kM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFEg6Ph2DSs 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3MH5py0nJM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRmGkBZkizI 

What I really like about these is that they were created by users of the All Season Solar Cooker, not by me. So check them out and see what others have to say

Here is the logo for the all season solar cooker

Today, stack pot cooking. Got the idea from the indian Tiffen. I have a LOT of solar cookware, so I stacked two large fry pans and one smaller, all with lids so they stack. Bottom pan: Portobello mushrooms stuffed with onion, tomato, jalepeno and cheese. Middle pan: Kielbasa and onions Top Pan: Brown rice At the solar workshops people ask about putting two pots in at once. We are gonna find out