Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

How to make a pizza box solar oven.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

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. Materials needed for this step. You can experiment with solar power just by using an ordinary pizza box or any normal box with a flap. Dish or pie plate.

Remove the tops of both boxes and place the small one inside the larger one. Clear type of tape. Plastic wrap or large transparent plastic bag. You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s.

This step is to just make the top of the solar oven. Watch more cooking equipment videos. Build and use a simple solar 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.

Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Take the 2 sides and do the same thing. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie.

Cooking ingredients like those for some mores or nachos don t use your oven to prepare raw meat. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. Box cutter or scissors. 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.

The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse allowing sunlight to pass into the box while also keeping the heat in. Making a lightweight solar oven 1 place a cardboard box inside a larger cardboard box. Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot.