Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

You cut a flap out of the pizza box s lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. Plastic wrap or large transparent plastic bag. Take the 2 sides and do the same thing.

The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. Box cutter or scissors. You can experiment with solar power just by using an ordinary pizza box or any normal box with a flap. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box.

Build and use a simple solar oven. The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse allowing sunlight to pass into the box while also keeping the heat in. Clear type of tape. The solar oven you will build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper.

How to make a pizza box solar oven. Materials needed for this step. Making a lightweight solar oven 1 place a cardboard box inside a larger cardboard box. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie.

Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Dish or pie plate. Watch more cooking equipment videos.

Remove the tops of both boxes and place the small one inside the larger one. To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven. Have you ever wanted to make sure you got an a on that assignment on heat energy.