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I wanted to wait until I tried cooking a bunch of things before I reviewed this and I've been thoroughly impressed with this solar stove. So far I've cooked up frozen chicken tenders, cut up potatoes with sliced smoked sausage, hot dogs, croissant rolls, and even hard "boiled" eggs (you just place the eggs in the pan and let them bake in the cooker- they won't burst) and chicken drumsticks.. and everything has come out great. I think I'll be looking to pick up another one so that I can cook meat in one and the sides in the other. 2 servings is what you can expect with this version. What's neat is that you can turn the unit away from the sun, or close up the reflectors and the food will continue to cook and stay hot for a LONG time. Cleaning it isn't that much of a chore- they include an attachment that you can screw on to the tray and then use the tray to reach inside the tube to clean. The tray is easy to clean in the sink if you have a double sink. I use an small amount PAM when I cook with it so nothing sticks.

I know it's expensive but I love this thing. It cooked eggs to perfection in 15 minutes. Tamales and taquitos got nice and crispy. No need to heat up my travel trailer or use fossil fuels fuels. Two of us cooked all of our meals all summer with one of these. Now we are spoiled. Even with the largest one, be prepared for the small diameter of the tube. It can accommodate 3 tamales, 5 eggs, and 6 or 7 taquitios or hot dogs, a salmon patty and veggies... but you can't shove a frozen muffin in there. It takes a bit to master the timing, leveling, and aiming, just don't leave it empty in the sun.

This little oven is the bomb! My first meal was a very simple link sausage, cut up, with potatoes, green peppers, and onions. I through them all in together with some butter, salt and pepper. It takes a bit longer to cook than in the house, but in about an hour and 15 minutes, we were eating a delicious steaming meal! It is very portable with handles that transfer down and become the legs. It is built well, as there is an S-hook that connects the two legs for stability. With a liner of foil sprayed with Pam, it was simple to clean and put away. It is a bit expensive, but if you think of it as an investment, and use it often, you will be happy with this purchase. My only wish was that it came with a bag, but that has to be bought separately.

This is a great concept and I bought one as soon as I saw it. However using it is a mixed bag. First time trying it went great and terrible. Hot dogs were great and cooked quickly. Then tried to roast some corn. I guess my mistake was not letting the stove cool down between entries. The cool temperature of the corn shattered the glass tube immediately. Bummed, I called customer support. They were very understanding and said that it would be covered under warranty. Great! Very excited until a few hours later...received an email telling me ( for the first time, this was never mentioned live on the phone with customer service) telling me that to receive my replacement part I needed to submitted a credit card to pay $20 in shipping otherwise there is no coverage. I get it, it's just very disappointing and unprofessional. I would definitely think twice if your ever going to have any children around this stove as it is very fragile.

Wow, this thing is fun! I’m very happy with it. The kids go nuts for anything that comes out of it. We’ve made, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins, corn muffins (can hold 85% a box of Jiffy brand muffin mix), steak (in strips), hot dogs (fits 8-12), shredded baked potatoes, and tin-foil dinners without the foil (ground beef, potato, carrots, onions, seasonings), and probably a few other items I’m forgetting. This thing + hot dogs at the beach = a great, easy lunch! The baked items listed above of course aren’t muffin or cookie shaped, but log shaped. Still tastes the same. A couple things to remember. –Cooking times vary. I cooked some lunch in it, but the clouds came and it wasn’t ready when we were ready to eat, so we closed the reflectors and let it simmer until dinner time! I opened the reflectors again under a 100% overcast sky, and the remaining heat, and whatever heat that made it through the clouds provided a HOT dinner, no problem. –Don’t forget about what you’re cooking! I tried frying some bacon one morning under direct sun. I got distracted and went out to find out that I had INCINERATED that bacon. It was the WORST SMELL I’ve ever encountered. Even opening the door to the house for a second let enough of that smoke in the house that it smelled unbearably bad all day! Pay attention! Set timers! Set frequent timers so you can check on your food often. It’s good for fun, and a day at the beach, but this thing would sure come in handy during a natural disaster or other emergency. I wish it were bigger. They’re making a bigger solar oven/grill soon, but it’s $$$$$. For a meal like tin foil dinners, it makes enough to feed two barely peckish adults. For a side dish type food I suppose you could feed a family, just that one item, but not a whole meal.

Works great aside from having to tighten leg supports with an allen key whenever I adjust angle of solar cooker. Cooks most things, bread, meat, potatoes, hardboiled eggs, veggies. I use the webake silicone hot dog bun molds cut to size so I have less of a mess to clean.

So far I have cooked roasted eggs, fried eggs with toast, hot-dogs, brownies and boiled water with my GoSun. I live in Hawaii and did my tests at noon on clear summer days. I roasted two eggs for 30 minutes. I cracked one open, it was not even soft-boiled. I left the other one in for 15 more minutes, and it was somewhat overcooked. Really, 'boiled' eggs (as they call it) are a poor choice for the GoSun because you can't tell when the egg is cooked properly. The next day, I put some butter in the tray and cracked two eggs into it, and rolled up two slices of bread. After 40 minutes and some not very graceful technique for unrolling the bread, I had some dry toast and eggs over-hard. Again, cooking was difficult because the cooking time isn't known in advance, and you can't see what you are cooking while it cooks. Overall I don't think eggs are a good example for the GoSun and don't recommend it. The next day I made some hot-dogs. This took 20 minutes, twice the time the booklet says. The hot-dogs turned out perfectly. Next, I made brownies. I used a high rated recipe for regular brownies on the internet. The brownies came out perfectly after cooking for 1 hour. The downside was they stuck to the pan and left particles in the tube so it had to be scrubbed. I should have put the batter in aluminum foil, but I wasn't patient enough to line the tubular pan. Next, I wanted to test boiling water, but I saw a video that says not to boil water directly in the tube as it wears it out. I do not have a brewing insert (can you buy one?), so I made one with a red-bull can by burning off the plastic coating. I was able to boil water after 45 minutes in the sun, but the red-bull can didn't hold enough water for a cup of tea. I also used a wireless thermometer to measure tempuratures inside the tube and food. I think this would be a must for cooking many items like meat to guarantee the food is safe to eat. I was able to get the tube up to 411 degrees while heating a rock, I think it would have gone hotter. I used a laser thermometer to measure the heat of the rock, and it was 350 degrees after about an hour. I took the GoSun out of the sun, but left it sealed and came back an hour later. The rock was still nearly 300 degrees, so the GoSun could work as a food warmer. I am not sure how many people will be able to get practical use from the GoSun stove. You need a very special use case in order to rationalize using it; for example, when flames are banned. Now, it only works at mid-day, so typically you are going to want to pick recipes that cook during the day and kept warm until eaten.

easier to cook in that my other box style solar ovens. Cooks fast and is easy to transport, use and clean up.

This is a great product. You can make anything in it. All you need is the sun. We have used them when camping and on our boat and just for fun on a sunny winter day because we could. The product is light and well designed. Should you accidentally break the vacuum tube you can buy a replacement fairly cheaply, it’s just a great thing. Plus it s cool. The nifty little sun dial they are now putting on the tube fell off during shipping. We have reached out to go sun. I expect they will just send us a new one :)

Funktioniert bei Sonne prima, bei Bewölkung nur eingeschränkt. Ist aber logisch!!

Très bon principe. Testé une fois. A bien fonctionné quoique manque un peu d'uniformité dans la cuisson. À voir une autre fois pour mieux étudier le problème.

wenn man weiß, dass das Gerät nicht zum Wasserkochen (Nudeln) gedacht ist, sondern Fleisch, Gemüse, Baguette in kurzer Zeit fabriziert. Je nach Flüssigkeitsgehalt des Garguts muss man sich das wie eine Mischung aus Braten und Dünsten vorstellen. Natürlich muss alles entsprechend klein geschnitten in die Röhre gegeben werden. Die Vakuumröhre ist aus Glas und sollte daher mit entsprechender Vorsicht behandelt werden. Meine Gerichte sind nach etwas Üben gut und schnell gelungen. Das Teil macht Spass und man verbraucht keine Ressourcen!

I feel better knowing I have the ability to cook with the sun. Arrived quickly, light weight, easy to store.