by Texas Homesteader~ 
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I came across a great deal on a huge back of potatoes recently. So I figured  I’d use my solar oven to cook up baked potatoes.

Well folks it’s still hot in Texas. And that’s not exactly the best time to throw on your heat-producing electric oven in your kitchen and bake potatoes.

Aaaaaanyway, here’s how I baked my potatoes.

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In my case I was ultimately going to end up dehydrating most of the potatoes for future consumption and more compact pantry storage. But I know that you have to cook the potatoes before you can dehydrate them.

So I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone today. Enter my handy-dandy solar oven. MAN I love this thing!

I purchased the optional accessory kit when I bought my solar oven. So that oven’s been going almost every day for the past two weeks either cooking or dehydrating garden  produce. 

(for those of you asking, I have a Sun Oven* solar oven.

Preparing The Potatoes

First I scrubbed enough potatoes to fit snugly into a black enamel covered pan. Then I used the sharp point of a knife to lightly pierce each potato several times and packed them into the pan.

There were lots of potatoes I needed to get used. So I wanted to pack that pan as tightly as possible.

It was like playing potato Tetris. HA! But they all fit in quite nicely.

Now here’s the really hard part. I placed the pan of potatoes into the solar oven, covered the pan, closed & latched the solar oven’s lid, pointed the reflectors at the sun walked away. They were cooked to my liking in about 3 hours.

How’s that for easy!??

The temps inside the solar oven stayed about 300 – 350 for most of that cooking time. I adjusted the reflectors about every hour or so to help keep track of the sun. That keeps the solar oven working as efficiently as possible.

But you don’t even have to adjust the oven throughout the cooking process to closely track the sun if you don’t want to. Those potatoes will still cook up just fine. Simply cook them a smidge longer until they’re as soft as you want them.

Setting Up A Solar Oven When You Won’t Be Home

But a rule of thumb if you’re not going to be around to babysit the oven is to point the reflectors at the sun when you start your timing, then additionally rotate it about 30-degrees clockwise.

This gives you approximately 4 hours of average sun before you’ll need to realign the reflectors to keep the heat going.

Although you sacrifice some of the consistent heat inside the oven by using this averaging method, it’s often offset by the convenience of set it & forget it for 4 hours. You just need to add a little more cooking time to compensate for the slightly lower temps.  EASY!

Anyway the baked potatoes were done to my liking after about 3 hours. It doesn’t get much easier than that!

Of course we enjoyed baked potatoes with our supper that night but most of these potatoes went into the refrigerator to cool overnight to prepare them for dehydrating the next day.

I’ll be dehydrating them into Hash Browns!

~TxH~

Looking For More Solar-Cooking Recipes?

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• Using FREE Solar Energy Instead Of Kitchen Appliances
• Meatloaf In A Solar Oven
• Cheesy Chile-Chicken Casserole
• Boneless Breaded Pork Chops
• SW Chicken w/Seasoned Brown Rice
• BBQ Pork Sandwiches
• Homemade Marinara Sauce
• Pumpkin Bread
• Chunky Apple Cinnamon Bread
• Baking Bread In A Solar Oven
• Cooking Hard-Boiled Eggs In A Solar Oven
• Baking Potatoes In A Solar Oven
• Brewing Tea With The Sun

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