Cooking Experiment To cook hotdogs using solar ene

The solar hot dog cooker uses the heat of the Sun to cook hot dogs (Light, 2006: Solar, 2003). It consisted of a series of skewers poked through the sides of the bottom half of a shoebox, going in one side and out of the other. These were to hold the hotdogs. The skewers were first poked through one side of the box, then through a hotdog from one end to the other, and then out of the other side of the box, so that the hotdogs were suspended over the bottom of the box. The bottom of the shoe box was lined with aluminum foil to reflect the sun. A large magnifying glass was positioned above the grill, with the handle set in a grooved block so that the glass of the magnifier was