How To Make A Solar Panel Oven Pizza Box

Put the food on a preferably dark colored plate.

How to make a solar panel oven pizza box.

On the top of the pizza box s lid draw a square that measures one inch inward from each edge. Take the top flap of your solar oven that you had just cut out and take some of the shiny material that you are using for the oven to reflect. The solar oven you will build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Then fold the flap back slightly along the attached side.

The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. This makes it so no bugs land on your food. Wait an hour or so. Go outside and using string fix the top side of the pizza box to reflect the most sunlight on the food.

Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven. You cut a flap out of the pizza box s lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. Wrap plastic wrap on top of the bottom and secure with tape.

Cut all the way through the cardboard on those three sides. Because the only heat source is the sun this is a great cooking activity for younger kids. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. When we think about outdoor cooking most of us think about a grill or a campfire but did you know that you can cook in a pizza box oven.

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s. After cut out the right size of the material that matches the flap and glue it on there.