Joel Dufour, the author, removes a hot skillet from his mobile solar oven. On most solar ovens you must lift off the glass top to check on or remove food. A rear door makes this process a lot faster, ...

We have also invested considerable time and some money experimenting with the many ways to cook food with the sun. Just imagine! You can actually take scrap materials–old cardboard boxes, newspaper, a ...

While you may not want to fry an egg on a sidewalk, you can make a delicious frittata in a solar oven. We are blessed with plenty of sunshine in central Montana making this an ideal location to ...

If it’s easy and free, it’s too good to be true, right? Not when it comes to solar cooking. Just as the term suggests, this cooking method captures the power of the sun. It’s a passive process, ...

Ashlee spent time as a newspaper reporter, AmeriCorps VISTA and an employee at a healthcare company before she landed at CNET. She loves to eat, write and watch "Golden Girls" (preferably all three at ...

We've already seen the Solar Kettle, which uses heat from the sun to boil water. Now we have a product called SolSource that also harnesses the sun's heat, but instead of boiling water, it can cook ...

Heat waves have been the bane of summer for many in the Midwest and Northeast, including the millions left powerless after severe weather earlier this month. As we reported, many people without power ...

From cool, dewy European mountain ranges and humid Central Asian forests to the urban sprawl across North America and the arid landscapes of the African continent, millions of people are cooking with ...

With summer in full swing, few things are as satisfying on a warm afternoon than a perfectly cooked Hebrew National. Thing is, few people actually enjoy fumbling around with a bag of coals and a jug ...

Meyer had her eureka moment while writing her final report. “That’s when I realized that fantastic work we’d done creating new products and designs and finding new markets was not going to improve the ...