Mini Portable Solar Oven…

I received the mini Sunflair oven last night. I am no stranger to solar cooking, but have only used home made cookers so far. This one seemed a little small to be efficient, but mostly I wanted the collapsible silicone pot, so... Today at 1:55 pm I threw two eggs (in the shell, no water) in the silicone pot good sun. and set it in the driveway facing the sun. Ambient temperature about 32 degrees, no wind. A little less than 2 hours later, after 2 minor adjustments to face the sun and tilt it forward for the low sun, I decided to check the eggs, with little hope that they were cooked. To my surprise, they were perfectly hard boiled. Not bad for late afternoon in mid-winter. Happy with my purchase, and looking forward to more fun. I'll probably buy the full sized version soon. Update: if you want higher cooking temperatures, place the pot inside a turkey roasting bag available at any grocery store. This also helps contain the steam coming off the food s theres less condensation on the clear front panel of the cooker. The bag puffs up, helping th keep the clear panel from drooping onto the pot inside. Maybe some of the reviewers who complained about low temps could try this out. Another update: where this thing really shines (pardon the pun) is heating MRE's and preparing freeze dried meals. MRE's often contain 2 pouches of food best consumed hot, but only one chemical heater, so I ended up with some leftover pouches and no heaters. I dropped one on the trivet in the sunflair and 30 minutes later it was almost too hot to eat. I think 20 minutes would be enough for a hot meal. Freeze dried meals placed in the silicone pot with cold water and placed in the oven come out more thoroughly hydrated and plenty hot than when using boiling water. Takes 30 minutes to an hour, but worth the wait, especially when you account for the ease of set up and no monitoring necessary. Great for camping during wildfire danger. Still love this thing, though still think it's too smal for household use. Still want the bigger one... For those having trouble, consider the size. It's fine for re-heating and very simple cooking on clear days, but beans and othe things will take a looonnngg time. My brother-in-law has the bigger one, but gave up on it because it was "too hot". I have played with lots of designs of solar cookers, and consider this one a good accessory, not a go-to cooker. Worth the money, but if you are new to solar cooking, get the bigger one, make your own (search for Teong Tan's designs) or try the All Season Solar Cooker. Also, the temperature inside the pot will be higher than outside the pot, so don't trust it entirely, check the food temp after a while. There's a learning curve. It works, but learn how it works.

What a FANTASTIC product! I finally tried it out, and was so impressed with it. It heated up to 210 degrees in about 20 minutes (on a sunny 75 degree day), and steamed some zucchini in about 10 minutes. It was so easy to use and so efficient. And what a great feeling to be able to cook with just the sun-it was empowering! (is that a pun?) Directions were easy, set up was easy (thanks for the pictures). I think I will order some non-collapsible cookware however, because it was difficult to pick up the silicon bowl with my oven mitts on (I kept making it collapse!). The oven is very hot inside when in use, definitely need mitts on. Even the zipper pull was hot. But in the shade, it cooled off very fast. Thanks for a simple and effective product.

It got up to about 175F and wouldn't go higher. This is in direct sunlight in San Diego in April. There's not a very easy way to tilt it up to receive more sunlight without toppling over the water you're trying to boil or meal you're trying to cook. I really like the effort but the execution wasn't quite there.

I am currently in Kuwait and thought “hey we have all this sun and heat, I’am pretty sure that we can cook something out here.” So I googled solar ovens and the sun flair came up. The price seemed reasonable. The first thing that we cooked was apple crisp. It was amazing! We then cooked peach cobbler and it wasn’t to bad either. We then tried a Mexican cheese dip. That was pretty good too. My oven has consistently reached 200 degrees. I am considering the bigger oven. It gets a thumbs up.

The solar oven was delivered and was missing parts to it. It was missing the silicone pot, and the thermometer , and the color I had ordered was to be a camo color , but came in orange colored instead. Unfortunately, I had to send it back and request a refund. And hopefully the Sunflair company does right by me and refunds me. After all, this product was not cheap, it cost me over $100.00 dollars.

There's more cloud than sun today but I still see this thing hit 80C and stay there for a while.