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.
PHOTOS OF COMPLETED PROJECT
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I didn’t try this yet,but it is awsome!
thats easy
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. π
thats cool
this is the best idea I have ever heard
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)β 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. Itβs a way to have a hot, cooked meal using absolutely no matches or charcoal.
YEAH!!!!
it dosent work not good directions sorry
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.
this is cool
Is that really work by using aluminiumfoil ?
i was just wondering how long it will take to cook the hot dog and how to build it
Looks easy, but hard! I guess it will probably explode! π―
how long will it take?
This hot dog cooker is awesome I’m sooo using this for my project. Hope I get an A+.
i made it got 2nd place
this is the most awesome ,stinky project i every did
hmp!!!! I WISH i had the materels!!-.-
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?
sweet
This idea is swell. I tried it at home with my fam. We all enjoyed the hotdogs.
interesting
it makes me feel hungery
i luv hotdogs
this cooker stinks
neato
it sounds like a cool idea!!!!!
It is also very green
i am going to use this for my project
cool idea
why didn’t someone tell me that before it would have saved me some time i love hot dogs
This is kinda cool! I wish I could do that!
My class does this on Fridays
That also happened to me. Not a dream!
And so I was dreaming I was being attack by a monster in the first place.
This looks like an art project from my school!
I did that in school!
OK… now I’m hungry…
that is cool my 8th grade class is do it in science it is alsome
=) 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
hey this idea is craaaazzzzyyyy n i love it!!! hahahahaha xD
AUSOME!!!!!!!!
I wish I could use a knife.
thats awesome how did you think of that!
this works really good
Not that cool
WHAT!!
my class is going to do this
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!
This is awesome– I will definitely use this.
AJM