Damn! I was just going to add a superbly halfbaked idea - the solar-powered barbeque - but a swift web-search shows me that about a million people have thought of this before me. I'm still going to add it though as even if it works, it *looks* halfbaked.

By the way, I am longsighted (US: farsighted) and so I can char (I was going to write 'cook', but this would be innaccurate) small amounts of food by focussing the sun's rays with my glasses.
-- hippo, Aug 17 2000

(?) Solar BBQ http://www.users.bigpond.com/solarbbq/
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(?) Solar BBQ http://home.att.net...ar/solarbarbecu.htm
[hippo, Aug 17 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Solarcooking.org http://solarcooking.org/
[hippo, Aug 17 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(?) Solar BBQ (DIY model) http://www.geocitie...Lab/1135/cooker.htm
[hippo, Aug 17 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(?) Solar cookers http://www.panasia..../crt/photosolar.htm
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2,510 hits on Google http://www.google.c...ch?q=Solar+Barbeque
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This is a spectacularly wonderful idea . . . and so easy to implement. Ingredients: 1 pig; 1 shovel; 1 bucket with lid and hose attached; 1 match; 1 matchbox; steel plate; raw animal flesh and onions; solar energy. Method: . . . naah, you get the picture.
-- webster45, Jan 29 2003


Damn! I was hoping this would be about rocketing food towards the sun.
-- pompombala, Feb 01 2003



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