Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

Dish or pie plate. Plastic wrap or large transparent plastic bag. The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse allowing sunlight to pass into the box while also keeping the heat in. Cooking ingredients like those for some mores or nachos don t use your oven to prepare raw meat.

Have you ever wanted to make sure you got an a on that assignment on heat energy. You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s. Remove the tops of both boxes and place the small one inside the larger one. This step is to just make the top of the solar oven.

Clear type of tape. Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot. You can experiment with solar power just by using an ordinary pizza box or any normal box with a flap. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot.

Build and use a simple solar oven. The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. You cut a flap out of the pizza box s lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie.

The solar oven you will build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Making a lightweight solar oven 1 place a cardboard box inside a larger cardboard box. Watch more cooking equipment videos. Take the 2 sides and do the same thing.

Materials needed for this step. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper.