Easy Inexpensive Solar Oven

Take a car tire or black inner tube, place it on a piece of plywood. Line the hole with aluminum foil. Place a cooking (ovenproof) dish, black enamel pot, roaster, etc. in the middle of hole with the food to be cooked. Cover tire with large piece of glass. This will work on a sunny day.

By Tammy from Columbia, Missouri

Editor's Note: Here are plans for a similar design.

http://solarcooking.org/tire_eng.htm

Here are some plans that use sun collectors and plywood instead of a tire.

http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/offthegrid/solaroven.shtml