Remember those cookies that were baked on the dashboard of a car? Well, now someone who’s extra-crafty has upped the ante by converting a papasan chair into a solar cooker.
The apparatus is made of a reflective cone that consists of triangles of anodized aluminum bolted together in the center, which fits into the frame of the chair. There’s even a bamboo tripod to hang the food or water that the reflective cone will cook.
This idea comes from Appropedia, a site dedicated to sharing ideas and knowledge about sustainability. According to the author:
My hope was that, in the spirit of synergy, the whole would be greater than the sum of the parts and that people may find the idea of owning a solar cooker more practical if they can also sit and read a book in it when its not in use.
Compared to the traditional mono-functional Parabolic Solar Cooker, this project serves as a chair when not in use, which saves space and is less of a fire hazard than the traditional Parabolic Solar Cooker.
The site has a DIY guide to crafting your very own papasan chair-solar cooker. Sounds pretty sweet… just be sure not to sit on the hot aluminum cone.
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Image: Bart Orlando
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Papasan is going to be pissed when he finds out what happened to his chair.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Papasan can still sit in his chair… now he is just in the hot seat.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Now I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of mine!!!
August 14th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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