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Box cookers are slow but reliable and can be unattended. Parabolic cookers are fast, dangerous and must be attended. The idea is to design reflectors so that you can have a cooker with intermediate characteristics.

Safer than a parabolic, faster than a box and still capable of unattended cooking. I have made a mock-up of a reflector and you can see it in the first video. (My techniques have not yet been good enough to make an exact model but I can see the shape coming together)



gives you an idea of the scallop shaped design

and watch the second video if you need to understand why there has to be more than one bounce of light off the reflectors sometimes



This also helps explain why the end of the "scallop" is a tube

I would appreciate comments on both videos. Easy cheap apparatus so far. Couple of laser pointers, some wood, some strips of mylar, some screws.

Anyone want to try?

Brian