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As we continue our Sun Ovens Cooking Essentials series, today we're going
to talk about how to set up and how to focus the Sun Oven. The Sun Oven
folds up. It carries like a suit case. It only weighs 21 pounds.
Setting up is actually very easy. It's a simple one piece construction. You
just unsnap this latch. You open the Sun Oven completely up and there's a
little notch here that allows you to hold it in position. You set it in the
sun and simply it's ready to go. Now, setting up doesn't take any time at
all.
Now, the sun does move throughout the day. So, there are two ways to cook
in the Sun Oven. One is you could just set the Sun Oven with the sun's
going to be halfway in the time, you're going to be cooking and let it slow
cook. But, if you want it to maintain the maximum temperature, then what
you want to do is, refocus the Sun Oven every 30 minutes or so.
Now, there are two things involved with focusing the Sun Oven. One, and the
most important one, is that we're going to want to set it in the sun and
then look at the shadows the oven is casting. So, what we want to do is,
we'll set it in and now we see we've got the shadows even on both sides of
the oven. That's the most important part of focusing the Sun Oven.
Now, we're in September. It's late in September. It's about 11:00 in the
morning. So, we are going to need to raise the leg up. During the
summertime, you really don't need to use the leg unless you're cooking
early in morning or late in the afternoon to tilt the oven up.
But today, what we're going to need to do is raise the oven up until it's
in a position where the sun is even with the very front of the oven. So, if
we raise this up about, one more here, the appropriate - we raise it up.
So, when you raise the leg, what you want to do is think of just having a
straight line from the sun down to the ground. So, I'm just using this
board here to show that it's a nice even line.