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Make a solar hot dog cooker
If you curve some aluminum foil just right, you can cook hot dogs with the sun’s heat.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Utility knife
- Tape
- Saw
- Drill
- Roofing nails
- Glue
- 2 sheets of corrugated cardboard, 7 1/2 inches by 30 inches
- 2 2-by-2-by-12-inch connector boards
- Piece of poster board large enough to cover the bottom of the cooker
- 12-inch-wide aluminum foil
- 2 1-by-1-by-13 1/2-inch wood uprights
- Small wooden dowl, sharpened at one end
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Step 1. Using the utility knife, cut a curve from the two pieces of cardboard.
Step 2. Connect the curves together using the 12-inch connecting boards, glue and roofing nails.
Step 3. Bend the poster board over the curves, mark with a pencil and cut to size. Glue and tape in place.
Step 4. Spread glue evenly onto the poster board. Carefully glue down the aluminum foil. Make it as smooth as possible.
Step 5. Drill a hole in one upright, cut a notch on the other and glue in place.
Step 6. Aim the cooker at the sun, skewer your hot dogs, and get the rolls and mustard.
HOW IT WORKS
The sun reflects heat off the parabolic curve and concentrates it at a single point.
Read 23 comments about “Make a solar hot dog cooker”
If you enjoy disapproving looks from those around you, then this trick is for you!
November 1st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
It is also very green
October 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
i am going to use this for my project
October 30th, 2008 at 11:41 am
cool idea
October 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
why didn’t someone tell me that before it would have saved me some time i love hot dogs
October 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
This is kinda cool! I wish I could do that!
October 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
My class does this on Fridays
October 24th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
That also happened to me. Not a dream!
October 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
And so I was dreaming I was being attack by a monster in the first place.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This looks like an art project from my school!
October 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I did that in school!