Sun Oven Chronicles Day Two: FREEZER PIZZA

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Okay, before anyone passes judgement…remember that I’m cooking in the Sun Oven on a daily basis whatever I would NORMALLY be baking in the oven.  While I wanted to do homemade pizza-I also didn’t want to spend all the time to make homemade pizza to not have it work in the Sun Oven.  So I played it safe and tried it first with a freezer pizza first.  And here is what I found out….

Sun Oven Try #2: FREEZER PIZZA

I bought some Di Giorno freezer pizzas from Costco and thought they would be great to try in the Sun Oven.  I was pleasantly surprised that the pizza fit perfectly in the Sun Oven (all 10.5 inches of it).  Luckily, I already had my Sun Oven out pre-heating just waiting for me to try something in it.  So, once I figured it fit, I put it on the rack and went back inside.  I came out to check on it and the 1/4 portion of the pizza hanging off of the rack was hanging down.  It looked like those clocks on Alice in Wonderland…the ones that are drooping off of things.  It makes sense that as the pizza thawed it would droop.  Anyway, so I had to think quick.  I ran inside and got my Mom’s turkey rack which is also the perfect size to place on the rack and hold all the pizza together.  In about an hour the pizza was done.  AND IT LOOKED GREAT!

See?!  Do you see?!  The Pizza actually got brown!  Maybe this isn’t as big to you but my mom had a solar oven growing up (different from a Sun Oven it was just a cardboard box spray painted silver with a piece of glass) and nothing…NOTHING got brown in there.  This gives me so much hope for so many other things that are not only going to be plausible but delicious!  I think next I’ll have to try some banana bread…whole wheat banana bread from homegrown bananas-to be exact!

SUN OVEN LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Pizza is DOABLE!  (With a rack or cooking sheet that will allow for it not to get droopy).
  2. Paul Munsen was right! The Sun Oven will actually BROWN food.

One more Sun Oven picture just for fun!

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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3 Comments

  1. Yes, things will get brown.  If you do cookies and layer the pans (the brownie type ones) you will want to rotate them if you like “crispy” cookies.  Bake one loaf of bread at a time if you are like me and make BIG loafs.  I need to get mine out of the corner and get it preheated for something…what I’m not sure.  😉  Happy cooking!

  2. Last summer I borrowed my neighbor’s Sun Oven for a ward emergency prep night.  I experimented for a couple of days with such cool results.  I hate heating up the kitchen oven in the summer, but I love baked potatoes, so the Sun Oven to the rescue.  It worked like a charm.  Brownies and some very moist bread that I took to the ward night amazed everyone.  Now I just wish that I could scrape up the extra money to buy a Sun Oven of my own!  I look forward to your summer of experimentation. 🙂


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