The goal of the SOL Cooker’s design is to provide a simple easy to use product with portability yet still create an aesthetic appearance. In my research, I found no design esthetic is applied to current market solar cookers, in that they are either piecemealed together or are designed strictly for function ignoring form. None of them are easily transportable. Creating a light weight well designed solar cooker using current manufacturing technology makes solar cooking more attractive to people in developed and undeveloped countries.

My research indicated that in developed countries, cooking only makes up a small percentage of daily energy use, but this is because people in developed countries consume enormous amounts of energy for other purposes (driving, lighting, air conditioning, etc.). Introducing a well designed solar cooker to these individuals is an excellent way to show them that they can integrate alternative energy into their lives. Solar cooking is one of the simplest, least expensive ways to use solar energy to offset some of today’s current high energy consumptions. This will hopefully interest people in developed countries to the possibility of using alternative energy in this easily provided way. In underdeveloped countries, economics, lack of fuel sources and transient lifestyles, make this solar cooker a very desirable item.