Anything you can cook in a conventional electric or gas oven can be cooked in a Enolar Sun Oven. You can bake, boil and steam using any of your favorite recipes.

The Enolar Sun Oven will reach temperatures of 360 to 400 F. The oven will generally reach its maximum temperature as it is being pre-heated. The temperature will drop when food is placed in the chamber.

The food tastes much better! Solar cooking allows many of the natural flavors of food, which get baked out in conventional ovens, to remain. The slow and even rise in temperatures in a Enolar Sun Oven gives the complex carbohydrates time to break down into simple sugars allowing natural flavors to emerge. Sun baked foods stay moist, the.natural internal juices do not bake out, resulting in a superior, moist taste asn much less shrinkage.

Cooking times are close to the same as those in a conventional oven. Because the sun is often trying to run away and hide behind clouds, cooking times can vary. At times it may take a little longer. The factors that affect the cooking time are the quality of sunlight at the time you are cooking.

No. But dark, thin-walled pots with lids work best. Dark pots change the light from the sun into Heat energy. Lids are important because they hold steam in the pot. If a lid is not used, the steam will dissipate much of the heat. Shiny aluminium pots and pans cause light to be reflected out thereby reducing the Oven's temperature. For baking cakes, breads, cookies, and pies, dark cookie sheets and baking tins work best.

Focussing an Enolar Sun Oven is very easy. All that is required is to watch the shadows created by the oven. When the shadows are even on all sides, the cooker is directly focused. The built-in wheel legs on the back of the oven allow for easy tracking.

The need to refocus depends a great deal on what you are cooking, the time of day, and the temperature you wish to maintain. A good rule of thumb is to plan to re-adjust every 30 minutes to maintain maximum heat. At noon, the sun is high in the sky and moves quickly past the maximum focus point, creating the need to refocus more often. Later in the day you will not need to refocus as often. The Enolar Sun Oven is equipped with a built in Levelator, which keeps food level and avoids spills while being refocused. Many meals can be cooked without refocusing. Enolar Sun Oven users will often put their ovens outside, focused for the mid-day sun, with their dinner in it when they leave for work in the morning. As the sun moves overhead, the temperature in the Enolar Sun Oven chamber slowly rises to a cooking level. As the sun passes, the food is kept warm and when they return from work they have a warm, sun-cooked dinner. (Keep in mind that the food will not burn in a Enolar Sun Oven and that the chamber is extremely well insulated, allowing food to stay warm for hours).

The only parts that get hot are the oven chamber, the cooking pan, and the glass door. Proper care must be taken to use hot pads when opening the door and removing food. The entire exterior of the oven, including the reflectors, remains safe to touch.

The estimated life of a Enolar Sun Oven is 20+ years. With proper care it should last a lifetime

The Enolar Sun Oven reaches temperatures comparable to that of conventional ovens, therefore no special recipes are required. A good rule of thumb is to add 10 to 15 minutes of cooking time for each time the oven door is opened.

The black surfaces on the inside of the oven capture and transforms the sun's energy into a form that cannot escape the oven chamber. When a Enolar Sun Oven is focused in the sun, the interior of the Oven is heated by the sun's energy. Direct and reflected sunlight enters the oven chamber through the glass door. It then turns to heat energy when the balck inner-shell and levelator absorb it. This heat input causes the temperature inside the oven to rise until the heat loss of the oven is equal to the solar heat gain. The light energy absorbed by dark pots and the oven's dark interior is converted into longer wavelength heat energy. Most of this longer-wavelength radiant energy cannot pass back out through the glass, ensuring more efficient cooking. The demands of massive population growth, and inefficient conversion of wood to charcoal, have outstripped the third world forests ability to regenerate. The ecological effect of wood fuel is burdensome and has a far-reaching negative global impact. These global trends will lead to environmental de-stabilization leading to deforestation, and global warming. Science strongly supports the fact that deforestation for agricultural and fuel use is changing weather patterns, causing soil erosion, and depleting plant and animal life. Sun Ovens offer a powerful solution to the effects of deforestation, and have an enormous positive impact on the every day life of millions of people in under-developed countries by improving their nutrition, health, and quality of life.