Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — COOKING BY THE SUN’S RAYS. [ARTICLE]

COOKING BY THE SUN’S RAYS.

Novol I’lan I u veil led by Man from a** Fraud* co. Cooking by the beat of tho sun Is a novel Idea, hut suggests economy, and Is certainly practicable If there is no exaggeration in the claims made by a San Francisco Inventor in behalf of a nswly patented contrivance. The apparatus consists of a sort of oven made in the shnpe of a rectangular box, open on one of its four sides (through glass) to the direct rays of the sun, and similarly exposed on another side to solar rays reflected from a series of prlsmllko mirrors. Inasmuch as the box and mirrors are adjustable at various angles, the rays of the sun may be concentrated upon the inside of the oven at any hour of the day. The oven is set upon ons edge. Whereas the upper two sides are of glass, the lower two sides are of wood, and the wholo box, save for the two glass sides, is double-walled and lined with felt and sawdust. Thus, glass being also a nonconductor, the heat that enters the box does not easily get out again. In fact, if there were water inside, it is claimed that it would quickly boll on a sunshiny day. The Internal arrangement of the oven consists of three shelves which remain horizontal no matter at what angle the box is placed. On these shelves baking is done. Along the top edge of the box extends a fiat piece of metal, hollow inside, into which hot air is admitted from the oven beneath. This is a broiler, and the inventor says that ons may cook a steak on it nicely. One advantage of the solar method of cooking it that it is clean. No fuel has to be supplied, and there are no ashes to remove. It is a process that recommends Itself most strongly, therefore, to ths neat and thrifty housewife.