Solar Parabolic Cooker

A solar cooker is like a hot box, in which we can cook our food without any cooking gas or kerosene, electricity, coal or wood. In a solar cooker we can boil, bake and roast, and in a cooker for domestic use, we can cook food for four to five persons. Bigger size solar cookers are also available for cooking food upto 15 persons.

What can be cooked in a Solar Cooker?

We can cook a large number of items, like pulses, rice, kheer, khichri, vegetables, cereals, etc. which are needed for our daily meals, in a solar cooker. Some special dishes like Muthia, Handva, Patra, Idli, Dhokia, Lapsi, Dudhpak, Pulao and soups can also be cooked. To add to the list, we can bake bread, biscuits, cake and nankhatai, etc. The non-vegetarian items like fish, chicken, meat curry, shami kababs, etc., which are boiled or roasted can also be prepared in a solar cooker. The time taken to cook will depend upon the type ;of the food, time of the day and solar intensity. However, the time taken to cook some of the dishes in a solar cooker is as follows : Rice (45 minutes to one hour), vegetables(about one to two hours), black gram and Rajma (about two hours), and cake(one hour).

Features:

  • Wide range of cooking like pressure cooking, single vessel cooking, frying, grilling, boiling, etc.
  • Multiple dishes preparation like Rice, dal, Vegetables, Meat etc.
  • Safe, Tasty, Nutritious, hygiene and naturally cooked food.
  • Cooking platform remains automatically within the focal area, so is safe and convenient to use.
  • Tracking by shadow indicator, no need to look into the reflectors for tracking towards the sun.
  • Quick and fast tracking compatibility adopted by well designed frictional lock.
  • Reflector adopts short focal distances and long tracking intervals.
  • Adjustable unique pot-holder helps to use different sizes of vessels could be safely used.
  • Solar Cooking can save thousand tons of firewood annually.
  • Parabolic cooker can save 10 LPG cylinders/year, 80-90 ltr kerosene.
  • Solar cooking does not emit any smoke unlike other conventional fuel.
  • Solar cooking retains higher percentage of protein, Riboflavin, Vitamin A and C, thereby food cooked by solar cooker is healthy.

  • Item Cooked Max Qty Loaded Cooking time**
    Rice 1000 Kgs 45 mins.
    Dal 1+0.5 Kgs 45 mins
    i)Carrot/Beetroot
    ii)Onions
    iii)Potatoes
    i)390 gms
    ii)450 gms
    iii)500 gms
    i)30 mins
    ii)30 mins
    iii)30 mins
    Eggs 5 nos 20 mins.
    Chicken 1.5 Kgs 1 Hr. 20 mins
    Mutton 1 Kg 1 Hr. 40 mins

    Box type Solar Cooker

    Features:

  • For cooking like Single vessel cooking, Boiling etc.
  • Multiple dishes preparation like Rice, dal, Vegetables etc.
  • Safe, Tasty, Nutritious, hygiene and naturally cooked food.
  • Unique pot-holder helps to use different sizes of vessels could be safely used.
  • Solar Cooking can save thousand tons of firewood annually.
  • Box cooker can save 5 LPG cylinders/year, 40-50 ltr kerosene.
  • Solar cooking does not emit any smoke unlike other conventional fuel.
  • Solar cooking retains higher percentage of protein, Riboflavin, Vitamin A and C, thereby food cooked by solar cooker is healthy.