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Imagine having a functional, off the grid kitchen and using a solar oven for effortless cooking. Plus using the sun to make plenty of hot water, to dry and preserve foods naturally, and practical, easy solar methods for making safe, drinkable water.

And solar box ovens can be used to pasteurize milk, and sanitize dishes, utensils, cookware and much more. The books here will show you the many old ideas which are newly rediscovered for people planning sustainable and energy conscious living. Canning fruits and vegetables in a solar box cooker is easy!



Did you know you can pasteurize water in about 4 hours in a solar cooker, or 25 minutes in a solar reflective cooker? Make safer drinking water in an emergency. (Sunlight kills many bacteria, but won't remove chemicals or crypto- solar distillation alone will do that.)
Build a Solar Wall Oven
Barbara Kerr didn't begin solar cooking until she was 50, and now at 79 is an expert and inventor for solar methods. She patented her unique solar wall oven design, and continues to teach solar and low-fuel methods (Rocket stove cooking ala' Dr. Larry Winiarski's design) to this day in Snowflake AZ.
This small booklet is a step by step on how to build and use a permanent (plywood or wood) solar box cooker that can be mounted through a wall in a kitchen, barn, shed, even bathroom or hallway to make hot water, sterilize baby clothing, and cleaning cloths (dairy and animal) warm chicks, seedlings, and of course to COOK. Prepare everything from cassaroles, desserts, meat, fish, and fowl, to sanitizing water for safe drinking (and heating it for coffee and tea).
Barbara built her solar oven through her kitchen wall which allows effortless solar cooking, no burning, and no fuel needed.
These solar box ovens can be pre made and used on site while building a house at a remote location, and used to cook meals, warm foods, and heat water for washing up for workers, then installed into the kitchen.
Any south facing wall- for the northern hemisphere :) --can be utilized- even in travel trailers and mobile homes. Or cook ovens can be left outside mounted on a rotating table to track the sun for optimum efficiency.
5"x7" booklet teaches how to make and use. Published 1999.
#5008... $4.00- SALE...Order Here


Earth Ovens...


Here's an idea for people in climates where the clouds come over, and change your solar cooking plans. An earth oven is an outdoor 'retained heat' oven. Start a small fire in the morning, place bread loaves and meals inside at noon, and enjoy a delicious dinner at night. And, on sunny mornings,use a solar box cooker to start cooking, and then transfer pots to your earth oven and you can have fully cooked meals, delicious in flavor, with no burning or watching over pots. Also great for vegetarian and 'many-bean' recipes.

New Edition, expanded to 100 pages, color photos! Building Your Earth Oven by Kiko Denzer.
Learn how easy and practical an outdoor baking oven is to build and use. The design is a two layer retained heat oven, and can be built with onsite materials such as earth and sand, and uses a brick base-floor, or even an earthen floor. These ovens burn a small amount of wood, get very hot, and allow you to bake breads and meals slowly after the coals have been raked out.
Kiko sculpts his ovens with wonderful animal and nature shapes. Imagine a huge Phoenix bird , its belly the oven, the flue its throat, with smoke escaping from the upturned beak! Children can help build these ovens, and play with earth at the same time. Complete instructions, 100 pages, 8.5x7, line drawings, and wonderful COLOR oven photographs of frog, squirrel, and Phoenix bird oven-bench, plus B&W of a snail and other fanciful ovens. #1003... $15.00..Order Here


Build A Rocket Stove Cooker

..Shows how to make a portable, emergency stove - A hot, fast burning mini stove for boiling water, and cooking food. Made from inexpensive metal cans, needs only scrap paper, twigs, small wood pieces. (Folks I have made these with coffee cans and boy do they work! If you can punch a hole in a can, and follow the simple directions you can boil water, fry eggs and burgers, saute, steam, and cook just about anything.) Shows four different metal can designs, and a clay stove design which needs no tools to construct, and uses local clay and sand. Lots of photos and clear directions. You'll be amazed at how well these little stoves work. 12 page booklet ...#5012..$5.00.. Order Here

2nd ed. Rocket Mass Heaters-Superefficient Woodstoves You Can Build (and snuggle up to)
by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson TITLE change, EXPANDED TO 100 PAGES, WITH COLOR IMAGES. CASE STUDIES OF SPECIFIC STOVE BUILDING, and UPDATED TECHNICAL BUILDING INFORMATION.
Many people are not aware Ianto wrote a book on the Lorena stove many years ago, for a clay cooking stove used with low fuels. This booklet is the natural transition to home heating.
100 pages, B&W and Color images and illustrations, softcover book. $18.00...SOFTCOVER #4099...READ MORE &ORDER HERE
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