Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

You can experiment with solar power just by using an ordinary pizza box or any normal box with a flap. Build and use a simple solar oven. Have you ever wanted to make sure you got an a on that assignment on heat energy. Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot.

Watch more cooking equipment videos. Materials needed for this step. Plastic wrap or large transparent plastic bag. Remove the tops of both boxes and place the small one inside the larger one.

Cooking ingredients like those for some mores or nachos don t use your oven to prepare raw meat. 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. To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven. Clear type of tape.

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. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. 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. Take the 2 sides and do the same thing.

How to make a pizza box solar oven. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie. This step is to just make the top of the solar oven. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper.

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. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. Dish or pie plate.