Solar Cooker

 

In our country energy consumed for cooking shares a major portion of the total energy consumed in a year. In villages 95% of the consumption goes only to cooking. Variety of fuel like coal, kerosene, cooking gas, firewood, dung cakes and agricultural waste are used. The poor of the developing countries who have been using dry wood, picked up from the fields and forests as domestic fuel, have been affected in their own way, due to scarcity of domestic fuel in the rural areas. The supply of wood is fast depleting because of the indiscriminate felling of trees in the rural areas and the denudation of forests. There is a rapid deterioration in the supply of these fossil fuels like coal, kerosene or cooking gas. The solution for the above problem is the harnessing of solar energy for cooking purpose.

The most important is that the solar cooker is a great fuel saver. It is calculated that a family using a solar cooker 275 days a year would save 800kgs of fire wood or 65 liters of kerosene. Similarly an industrial Canteen or a Hostel mess using the larger community solar cooker which can cook for 20 to 25 people could save 400kgs of fire wood or 335 liters of kerosene per year.