How long does it take to solar cook food?
Depending upon your food and the weather outside your cooking times will vary. A general rule of thumb though is that through solar cooking methods you can expect most foods to take about twice as long as opposed to traditional cooking methods. But as most practitioners of the art have discovered, much of the time cooking can be accomplished in equal or only slightly longer durations than traditional methods of cooking. As an example; on a mid summer day at midday on a cloudless afternoon you can do a casserole dish of home made macaroni and cheese from start to finish in about three to four hours – and that would include browning the sausage beforehand, cooking the pasta, combining all ingredients and then placing the whole mixture in a casserole dish and finishing the requisite cooking time indicated in the recipe directions. An egg can be fried in about seven minutes and white rice can cook up in about thirty minutes, just to give a few more examples. Cook times and durations can de
