Posting this for our preppers and campers.
Posting this because I never heard of this product before …. and am assuming some of you haven’t either.
Posting this because I think it’s cooler than sliced bread.
Highlights:
—- Fuel needed: Sunlight
—- You don’t have to see the sun to solar cook, cloudy days are OK
—- Reaches temperatures above 550°F
—- Steam, bake, fry, roast and boil, anything is possible inside the tube
—- weighs just 4 pounds, and collapses into a small footprint
—- cost, $275
Web Site — http://www.gosunstove.com/
I’m expecting another nasty-ass winter here in NJ …. some shit about Polar Vortex, part 2, being a virtual guarantee …. and power outages. (Philly is expected to get 7+ feet of snow … hahahaha).
So, Ms Freud and I are considering getting this contraption.
So, I wanted to ask — has anybody here used this product?
TIA
What a piece of junk. Guess you’re only going to eat on a sunny day – not in the evening. Muffins and tube steak?
You didn’t spend 3 seconds looking at the website.
It doesn’t require full sun. Yes, you would need to cut up steak — and other foods, first. It cooks about 4 pounds of food at a time. As far as eating in the evening … you are obviously missing the bigger picture; having a way to cook food when there is no other source of fuel or power. Not meant to replace your home stove or outside grill.
It’s a very new product, and unique, so it’s hard to find reviews. Only 9 on Amazon … 7 of which give it 5 stars. I was just hoping someone has actual experience with it, or something similar. But, thanks for your input. If you weren’t such a dick, I might have found it useful.
It’s interesting, I like the concept, but I don’t think I’d shell out $275 for it.
Of course when I’m eating cold pork and beans out of a can during the polar vortex I may change my mind.
@Dutchman;
The tube steak goes into the muffin.
You and Billy could split the cost and bake sun bread together.
A propane tank and a propane stove is cheaper. A 25 lb tank and stove would run about 100.00 dollars, or so. I would check out the plans to make solar ovens online. I think you could make it cheaper and it may be somewhat effective IMHO.
@Gubmint Cheese: Does the muffin have hair on it?
Stucky,
There are a number of solar ovens or cookers out there, and they take some time and sun. I purchased a Volcano Stove which uses wood, charcol, or propane and you can BQ, cook lots of food in a Dutch Oven. When you use the Volcano stove with charcol you only need 7/8 charcols for four lhours of cooking. It is very compact and built well. It costs a hell of alot less than that solar contraption,
“A propane tank and a propane stove is cheaper.” —- Winston
Eventually the cost of propane will exceed $275.
As far as building something myself … fuhgeddaboudit. It took me an entire semester in high school shop class to make a fuckin shoebox. I ain’t gifted with my hands. Well, in some areas I am. Heh.
Stucky, please keep your boasts about your self-pleasuring skills to yourself. There are some things one doesn’t need to share with the group.
Stucky, you would seriously pay for this? With three cinder blocks you can build a small rocket mass stove to cook anything you want using twigs of dry wood that can be collected just about anywhere that has trees.
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Stucky,
Pretty cool, but I could spend that coin on something a bit more practical.
Was over at a prepping store the other day just south of Lexington. They had a couple neat rigs on display. Couple steel tripods – one big, one smaller (but still pretty big). Both had a firebox suspended on a chain hanging in the middle. Over the firebox was a grate that was adjustable for height… The grate was easy big enough for anything you wanted to cook on it. Also other points where smaller chains could be hung, for stuff like a teapot, etc..
You don’t have to build a fire on the ground. Build one in the firebox, let it burn down to embers, then make dinner. Since the fire is off the ground, you don’t have to notify anyone you’re making a fire.
Yeah, it’s big and bulky and heavy… but I’ll take a hardwood fire anyday. If I were on the move, then maybe that solar thingy… but having to make food for more than one or two? Nah..
I sample a little of Sunlights toasted perfection every chance I get. Medium rare and trim the fat please.
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My bugout place is “up north”. North from Minneapolis. Up beyond the Cilantro Line. That’s the dividing line, north of which – even before an Ebola-induced economic shutdown – no one has ever heard of cilantro – even at an ostensibly Mexican restaurant. It’s not quite as far north as the Romaine Line, though, beyond which the only known vegetables at any time of year are corn and iceberg lettuce. I can’t imagine that that solar cooker would work at -25F. I’m pretty sure I’d put in raw meat and take out frozen, raw meat. If I have to go to my bugout spot to wait out the halving of the Earth’s population by Ebola, I expect to be chopping wood (dead, fire-ready pines) with an axe about 8 hours a day. I have 200 pounds of suet on order. In addition to its caloric density, I figure no one will want to steal suet. Mmmm… tasty suet.
Thanks, everyone.
Based on the responses, we will forgo purchasing this contraption. We do have two outdoor grills … we’ll just buy an extra tank or two of propane. Also, we don’t “camp”, unless it’s at a hotel.