Solar ovens

I?ve used a friends Sun Oven, and I built a DIY version. Tested them side by side several years ago and the Sun Oven was far superior.

Main use is baking bread. I just looked up Sun Ovens, and they are stupid expensive even by my standards. Are there any decent alternatives to spending $440?

After reading your post, i started doing some research on them. With the S/O getting good reviews. Anyway. As i'm, walking up to a garage sale this weekend. Passing me is someone carrying one of those . Missed the DOTD by 10 min. He said he paid $75, as the seller never used it. Now i'm hitting garage sales where pictures show "self reliant" items, 4 sale .

That's pretty cool!

Wow, that's expensive!

My suggestion would be to check Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, as well as garage sales.

Let the bread bakers bake the bread

Go Sun makes the best solar ovens around. They use a vacuum sealed glass tube around whatever you're cooking and, unlike more traditional solar ovens, they can get extremely hot, up to 500 degrees.

However, they're expensive, about on par with the price you mentioned.

https://gosun.co/collections/solar-ovens

let me put on my way - way back hat - this might be a site that might have info on a do-it-yourself project.

https://permies.com/w/paul-wheaton

they use to show how to make one yourself - I think one of the cheap versions used old projector TV's Fresnel lens from the junk yard.

I have seen this setup used to melt metal on some random youtube video.