The Coo-Kit is a panel-style lightweight solar cooker. It is a simple, portable solar cooker and comes along with two high-temperature cooking bags, which are required for holding the heat. The Coo-Kit folds flat to 13"x13"x2" and is easy to store. It is made of foil and cardboard, which helps in reflecting maximum sunlight on a black cooking pot, converting sunlight into thermal energy.
The Coo-Kit is a family-sized solar cooker, large enough to feed three to five people. For a larger family, you can opt for a large-sized solar cooker. Panel solar cookers require a black enamelware pot, which is to be wrapped in a turkey roasting bag for holding in the heat. The heat-resisting bag which surrounds the pot acts like a greenhouse agent by allowing the sunlight to hit the pot, and helps prevent heat from escaping. It is very suitable for slow-cooked crock-pot type dishes. It produces enough heat to cook simple casseroles and rice. You can make this cooker in one or two hours; all you need is cardboard, a knife, glue and aluminum foil. In this design, several flat panels that concentrate the sun's rays on a pot under the glass bowl are placed in the center, or inside a plastic bag. It is a great option to use during camping or for emergency purposes.
Coo-Kit has helped replace open fires with enhanced cooking stoves. It is both environmentally friendly and user friendly in its operations. The Coo-Kit uses no fuel, so you can save expensive and scarce fuel for the times when you cannot solar cook your food. You can also add high-cost cooking improvements such as bio-gas, smoke hoods, liquefied petroleum gas and modern biomass. With some sunshine for a few hours, this equipment can make delicious meals for 5-6 people at normal temperatures, and it preserves nutrients and cooks food without drying it out or burning.
This miracle cooking equipment helps to save fuel-wood more than four times its value each year. If stored and used carefully, Coo-Kit can be used for over two years resulting in a reduction of fuel-wood consumption by two tonnes. Cleaning up Coo-Kit is very easy, as the food never sticks to the cooking pot or burns. Without having the efforts of gathering dung or wood, breathing smoke or tending a fire which are associated with traditional cooking, Coo-Kit is also safe for people with respiratory diseases, the elderly, disabled people and children.
This simple looking, deceptive and elegant solar cooker is an effective, convenient and affordable way of cooking food.