[HN Gopher] At This Armenian Restaurant, the Ovens Are Satellite... ___________________________________________________________________ At This Armenian Restaurant, the Ovens Are Satellite Dishes Author : CapitalistCartr Score : 23 points Date : 2022-01-05 11:49 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | dredmorbius wrote: | Direct use of solar heat is a simple cooking option, though | somewhat inconvenient. | | I'd like to see a solar oven based on a thermal transfer medium | which heats a cooking void indirectly --- steam or other working | fluid. | | Advantages would be that the cooking itself would be more | conventional, within an oven (possibly resembling a thermal-mass | wood-burning stove, and ideally, usable with fuel for instances | in which sunlight was insufficient). Several cooking / heating | chambers and/or surfaces could be arranged for different heating | needs. | | And because of the thermal mass, the at least over the course of | the day, cooking and baking would be reasonably insensitive to at | least short-term interruptions of clouds or other weather. | | You might have to get used to cold breakfasts however. | | I find few references for anything resembling this design, far | more common are solar "box cookers", typically achieving | temperatures of ~150-160 C (~300-325 F). | | This somewhat resembles the concept: | https://www.webplaces.org/solaroven/design.htm | ksec wrote: | >On mild sunny days, it cooks in 20 minutes or less. During the | hot Armenian summer, the temperature in the pan can reach up to | 700o Celsius, | | I dont understand why it would taste better than inside an oven | other than temperature difference. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-06 23:01 UTC)