Solar cooking is easy, but getting into the habit of using your Sun Oven can be hard at first. The biggest challenge for me was planning. You don’t have to plan a week’s worth of meals, but you will have to start thinking about what you’re going to make for dinner early in the day or even the night before. It’s so much easier when you have all the ingredients you’ll need on hand when you get up in the morning. Having said that, there’s still plenty of room for spontaneous, spur of the moment, solar cooking. Today, after getting my pre-planned main course going bright and early, I found some baby veggies on sale at the grocery store. I snatched them up, tossed them in with some olive oil, and added them to the Sun Oven to cook along with it. Now all we needed was a nice loaf of bread and we had a meal.
are you using cast iron? what size is the cast iron pan? I’m afraid my cast iron will be too heavy for the leveling tray
Yes, it’s a cast iron frying pan (10 inch) on top of a cast iron Dutch oven (4 or 5 quart I think). I do this all the time, it’s not too heavy for the leveling tray. In fact the weight of the pots will may the Sun Oven harder to blow over if you’re in a windy area. However, cooking times will be longer whenever you use heavy cookware.