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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.
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Sep. 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm
This is awesome– I will definitely use this.
AJM
Sep. 6, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Wow….this would have been helpful!!! The dimensions were not included in the print instructions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We made one but it was too small and took way too long to cook the hot dog!
Sep. 8, 2008 at 3:55 pm
my class is going to do this
Sep. 8, 2008 at 6:31 pm
WHAT!!
Sep. 11, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Not that cool
Sep. 11, 2008 at 5:31 pm
this works really good
Sep. 22, 2008 at 2:29 pm
thats awesome how did you think of that!
Oct. 4, 2008 at 7:56 am
I wish I could use a knife.
Oct. 5, 2008 at 4:31 pm
AUSOME!!!!!!!!
Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm
hey this idea is craaaazzzzyyyy n i love it!!! hahahahaha xD
Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:50 pm
=) Hey i really think this is a great idea we are goin to do dis as a science fair project but one of our team member doent want 2
Oct. 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm
that is cool my 8th grade class is do it in science it is alsome
Oct. 24, 2008 at 2:33 pm
OK… now I’m hungry…
Oct. 24, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I did that in school!
Oct. 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This looks like an art project from my school!
Oct. 24, 2008 at 2:42 pm
And so I was dreaming I was being attack by a monster in the first place.
Oct. 24, 2008 at 2:44 pm
That also happened to me. Not a dream!
Oct. 24, 2008 at 8:34 pm
My class does this on Fridays
Oct. 26, 2008 at 4:47 pm
This is kinda cool! I wish I could do that!
Oct. 29, 2008 at 3:25 pm
why didn’t someone tell me that before it would have saved me some time i love hot dogs
Oct. 30, 2008 at 11:41 am
cool idea
Oct. 30, 2008 at 11:43 am
i am going to use this for my project
Nov. 1, 2008 at 9:40 pm
It is also very green
Nov. 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm
it sounds like a cool idea!!!!!
Nov. 30, 2008 at 6:26 am
neato
Dec. 3, 2008 at 5:24 pm
this cooker stinks
Dec. 4, 2008 at 10:03 pm
i luv hotdogs
Dec. 8, 2008 at 7:23 pm
it makes me feel hungery
Dec. 14, 2008 at 8:03 am
interesting
Jan. 5, 2009 at 8:57 am
This idea is swell. I tried it at home with my fam. We all enjoyed the hotdogs.
Jan. 24, 2009 at 2:37 pm
sweet
Feb. 5, 2009 at 6:50 pm
If you make the uprights and somehow the skuer bigger, you can cook other stuff. This is a great idea. Where did you get it at?
Feb. 8, 2009 at 8:54 am
hmp!!!! I WISH i had the materels!!-.-
Feb. 23, 2009 at 7:47 pm
this is the most awesome ,stinky project i every did
Mar. 9, 2009 at 11:43 am
i made it got 2nd place
Mar. 13, 2009 at 3:38 pm
This hot dog cooker is awesome I’m sooo using this for my project. Hope I get an A+.
Mar. 19, 2009 at 11:25 am
how long will it take?
Mar. 20, 2009 at 10:37 am
Looks easy, but hard! I guess it will probably explode!
Mar. 20, 2009 at 10:42 am
i was just wondering how long it will take to cook the hot dog and how to build it
Mar. 21, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Is that really work by using aluminiumfoil ?
Apr. 20, 2009 at 6:16 am
this is cool
Apr. 23, 2009 at 9:05 am
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.
Apr. 28, 2009 at 5:22 pm
it dosent work not good directions sorry
May. 10, 2009 at 8:58 pm
YEAH!!!!
May. 10, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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.
May. 13, 2009 at 11:53 am
this is the best idea I have ever heard
May. 27, 2009 at 3:27 pm
thats cool
Jun. 16, 2009 at 8:46 am
At my school we did practically the same thing except we used Pringles cans. THey work just the same and all you have to do is cut a hole in the can add plastic wrap and wait a while.
Jun. 17, 2009 at 3:09 pm
thats easy
Jun. 23, 2009 at 6:30 am
I didn’t try this yet,but it is awsome!