X|lab - Portable solar cooker

The solar cooker works by capturing the sun's energy through its collapsible fins.

Project Details

• Project Name: Portable solar cooker
• Client / end user: x|cruza estudio
• Project Type: Camping gear
• Principal Designer/s: Victoria Rique
• Design Team: x|cruza estudio
• Date of commencement of project: 2005
• Date of completion of project: Jun. 2006
• Usage environment: Outdoor

(Image order: from left to right, top and then bottom) The solar cooker completely unfolded; the cooking container; potatoes to be boiled; the making of a sandwich; completely folded solar cooker in a flat carry-bag.

Portable solar cooker - Component Details [opens in a popup window - 37 KB image]

Portable solar cooker - Unfolding Process [opens in a popup window - 72 KB image]

Words from Alejandro Salesi, x|cruza estudio:

"The solar cooker came out of our need to have some basic cooking equipment on our outdoor trips. From the beginning, Victoria experimented with the concept; searching for a range of possible, light and economic materials to obtain the best functionality off them. She conceived a solar cooker that is easily folded and reduced to the size of a handbag. Very Practical. The product has been quite successful. On our trips throughout Argentina, we've prepared anything from boiled water for 'mate' (Argentina's tea), to hamburgers, eggs and other meals."

Credits

• Text: Alejandro Salesi
• Photographs: Carlos Genoud
• Compiled and edited by Varun M. Ajani