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.
PHOTOS OF COMPLETED PROJECT
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this project totally work is cool.
This particular project it is too much to do. It took me like 2 days to do this.
i am needing a hot dog cooker with no wood for school project this is no help
Well it took me like 6 days! 😛
This is a great idea. The solar cooker for a hot dog needs direct sunlight (no shade trees) and the outside temperature needs to be above 94 degrees Farenheit to cook the hotdog in about fifteen minutes or so ( usually with a Heat index of over 107 degrees Farenheit)– about the same temperature as cooking an egg on a cement sidewalk which does not have shade trees around. This is a great idea as a school science fair project. It’s a way to have a hot, cooked meal using absolutely no matches or charcoal.
YEAH!!!!
How long does it take?
This is a great idea. The solar cooker for a hot dog needs direct sunlight (no shade trees) and the outside temperature needs to be above 94 degrees Farenheit to cook the hotdog in about fifteen minutes or so ( usually with a Heat index of over 107 degrees Farenheit)– about the same temperature as cooking an egg on a cement sidewalk which does not have shade trees around. This is a great idea as a school science fair project. It’s a way to have a hot, cooked meal using absolutely no matches or charcoal.
im doing this in my science fair this year. this is my first science fair and i hope this project works!
im doing this in my science fair this year for the first time i sure hope it works!
good luck
does work, me and my friend used it for a science project…was pretty easy too
it totally works!!!
my project better work