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A solar cooker or solar oven is a way of harnessing the sun's power to cook food. A metal box forms the simplest solar cooker. A set of large mirrors or a large Fresnel lens to focus sunlight to a single point may also be added. On a sunny day a black baking tray or cooking pot can convert hundreds of watts of light into heat, in addition to any infra-red. Temperatures in a typical oven can reach 200 °C (400 °F).
Apart from the obvious need for sunlight and the need to aim the solar oven before use, using a solar oven is not substantially different from a regular oven. However since they use no fuel they are free to run, humanitarian organizations are promoting their use worldwide to help slow deforestation and desertification caused by the need for firewood with which to cook.
The first known western solar cooker was built by Horace de Saussure in 1767.
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