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I live in eastern North Carolina, where it can be cloudy for days and the humidity can limit the sun a little. However, I've been cooking almost exclusively in the sunoven for almost 2 months. If you're home during the day, it's not hard to get the cooking done with the sunover. I've been using it to cook rice, bread, eggs, sausage, soups and stews, and chili. For most dishes, you just put them in the oven and try not to forget them.

It's true that the sun over doesn't burn things, but you can overcook things. Also, if you have something you want to cook at 300+ degrees, you need to keep it re-aim it every 30 minutes or so. It does take longer to cook things in the sunoven than in the conventional oven, or on the stove. At least here in NC it does.

The ambient temperature doesn't seem to make any difference. If you have a nice, clear sky and bright sun, the oven will get over 350 degrees from about 10 am until about 4 pm (this is based on late spring in NC). It takes about 40 minutes to cook a loaf of bread that would take 20 minutes in the oven, but the bread comes out very moist with a thin, golden crust. With bread, I just leave it in until the crust looks about right. There is no set time, because the temperature may vary.

Aside from the first week or so when the oven had a polymer smell that affected the taste of some foods, I've been really happy with the oven and everything I've cooked in it. I'd rather use it than the conventional oven, any day. Now, on cloudy days, I simply don't cook. When the sun shines, I make rice, bread and whatever else I feel like making, so I have plenty of staples when the sun goes down. I do still use my microwave, but I could get along without my stove.

well i got the oven yesturday...it was a sunny hot day and inside the house it was 80...i set the oven up cleaned it out and began warming it up, after 1 hour of pre heating the temp was up to 350, thankfully the roaster i use to roast chickens etc.. fit inside perfectly

i began roasting the 5lb chicken at 1pm and by 4pm it was completely done! 1 hour sooner than i thought it would be,

the oven is great but aside from the the chicken was so delicious, way better than any chicken i had ever cooked in a gas or electric oven! this oven will definitely get more use than my gas oven...

everyone ought to own one of these little ovens!

its sunny again today...

maybe i'll cook a pot roast today.

if you took the time to read my review..?

it works ! buy it!

hmmmm lasagna sounds good too

I recently purchased a Global Sun Oven when I saw the price had dropped a little.

To make a long story shorter - the Sun Oven works great to cook pizza. This last weekend was very sunny and I had to try pizza with the new oven (seeing as how my gas oven did not work). I left the pizza in the oven for 2 hours while I went mountain biking. When I returned the pizza was brown - but not burned - and tasted very good. I did not need to leave the pizza cooking that long but wanted to test the "no burn" quality of the oven. It works, the pineapple chunks were not scorched. The oven did not heat up the kitchen either.

Clean up is with a window cleaner (I used vinegar and water) to clean the glass and the reflectors (tree pollen).

I think that I will forget about replacing the thermo-couple in the gas oven and save some money that way too.

btw, I give The Global Sun Oven a 10 out of 5 (thats 2 greats)

After 12 years of rugged use, I'm very impressed by my Sun Oven. It has been left out in sun and rain, and I only got around to oiling the wood this year - so the oven's not as pretty as it was, but it's still totally functional.
It cooks nearly everything (greens and brocolli overcook quickly, but everything else is easy), saves money, keeps the kitchen cool, and keeps me from ever burning anything. I love it, and have even held "solar oven workshops" for my neighbors - actually three because word went around.
On very windy days, it's good to brace it somehow to keep it from blowing over, but that's the only problem I've had (I used to live where it was *very* windy). Once, I left the door unlatched, and when it tipped over, the glass door swung open and shattered. The door cost about $80 to replace, so keep it locked, and it will not break.
Because the wind at my old home used to blow so hard, the reflectors would swing slightly but constantly on their hinges and, after ten years, got weak. Last year, I decided to replace them, and Sun Oven was very helpful, and sent them out for a very small fee. (A friend with a pop rivet gun replaced them for me.)
Finally, food tastes better cooked in a sun oven - seems the energy of the sun is more natural and embues food with a lovely quality. One Summer Solstice, I got up early, started potatoes by eight a.m. for a potato salad, then followed those with a whole series of items, finishing up with an apricot cobbler which I took out bubbly just as the sun was setting. What a great day!