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Lytefire DIY Oven

Build your own, powerful solar oven for baking with Lytefire's DIY construction plans

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112 pages to guide you step by step

This construction plan summarizes more than a decade of field experience to reach the best design! Check all the users and see all the great things you can do with Lytefire here.

Package Content:
  • 1 Solar Concentrator Construction Plan: step-by-step instructions + detailed parts fabrication (70 p., available in English and French)
  • 1 Solar Oven Construction Plan: step-by-step instructions + detailed parts fabrication (42 p?, available in English and French)
  • 1 Tutorial Video: Installation and Setup of your Lytefire
  • 1 Tutorial Video: Mirrors callibration for efficient use
  • 1 Technical Booklet: Use and maintenance
  • Up to 3 hours of technical assistance during your building from one of our trainers. We support you, at your own pace, on the phone (chat or call). We’re here to make your project a full success.
  • Your access to Lytefire Hub with a dedicated builders forum where you can share and get tips in English and in French
  • 1 Lytefire’s solar baking Recipes Booklet (in English only)
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€ 499
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Construction Plan with the step-by-step instructions and detailed part fabrication drawings (70 pages for Lytefire 5 and 42 pages for the Oven, available in English and in French). **Disclaimer: Lytefire is powerful. The use of our construction plans and the solar cooking is at your own risk. Please follow carefully the safety instructions that are listed on our Terms. Thank you.
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What can you do with this Lytefire ?

Oh you can bake so many yummies!

  • 50 kg to 110 kg of fresh bread every day
  • Up to 500 buns or cookies
  • Pizzas, pies, cakes, quiches
  • Brioches, croissants, all kind of delicious "viennoiseries"
  • Can also be used as a regular cooking oven
  • And the food tastes the same!

More questions? Check the FAQ

Lytefire DIY built is recommended only for private or semi-professional uses. This Lytefire is not a mobile unit.

Disclaimer: Lytefire is powerful. The use of our construction plans and the solar cooking is at your own risk. Please follow carefully the safety instructions that are listed on our Terms. Thank you.

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So much delicious food you can bake here
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So much delicious food you can bake here

Technical Specifications:

  • Uses only direct concentrated sun ray, no fuel costs
  • Produces 3500 Watts of thermal energy
  • Reaches up to 300°C / 572°F (the oven is hot at 240°C after 45min-1 hour)
  • Even heat distribution for high quality baking
  • Immune to blackouts and brownouts
  • No fuel costs (requires sunlight, but that’s free)
  • No automated tracking: you need to slightly turn the Lytefire 5 every 10 mins to follow the sun
  • The combined surface of all mirrors is 5 square meters
  • Requires a sunny flat space of at least 7 meters of diameter in which to operate with no shade
  • Easy to clean: only water and soap to clean the mirrors. Clean the oven as normal.
  • If properly built and painted, the Lytefire will last about 16 years
  • The materials are regular steel, bolts, and mirrors, and they can be found almost everywhere. The price can vary from one retailer to the other so take your time to compare.
  • With good conditions, it takes up to 10 days to build your Lytefire and its oven.

Security:

  • As for any stove or fire, you do not leave the device unattended.
  • When you are done building, we recommend you perform the burning stick test for your family so everybody can see the actual power of your solar concentrator
  • Wearing sunglasses while baking is recommended
  • After usage, always turn down all mirrors to completely turn off the concentration.

More questions? Check the FAQ.

Solar baked buns in Uganda
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Solar baked buns in Uganda

Baking:

  • The baking happens exactly as on any oven :)
  • On the side of the oven, a lever allows you to change the inclination of all the mirrors at once to increase or decrease the heat.
  • Solar cooking doesn’t change the food’s taste
  • Bake 50 kg to 110 kg of fresh bread every day
  • Up to 500 buns or cookies
  • Pizzas, pies, cakes, quiches
  • Brioches, croissants, all kind of delicious "viennoiseries"
  • Can also be used as a regular cooking oven

Weather:

  • You need a clear blue sky for the Lytefire to work. If can be a fresh spring day, a hot summer morning or a sunny winter afternoon.
  • The mirrors array should be dismantled and/or stored indoor in case of heavy storm / hail storm. For more about the weather, see FAQ.
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Solar pizza in Switzerland.
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Solar pizza in Switzerland.

Check out how Lytefire Oven works!

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Connect with Lytefire Users all over the world

After your purchase you get access to the Lytefire Hub, where you can download your construction plans, how-to-videos, and acces a forum where you can ask questions and get answers quickly. It is a safe community where you can share updates and learn from other users.Join us and share your journey, challenges and transformation with all!

This map is private to the community, so you decide if you want to be on it or not. It allows you to check if someone near you shares the same Lytefire passion. We show here some of the users of the Hub!

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Testimonials

Your design is easy to understand and straight-forward to build. We achieved the advertised temperatures in the first try with none of the complications experienced by other students that used a different solar concentrator design.

Bilal Gondal, Engineering Undergraduate, Pakistan

These tools are quick to build and effective for the job. As indicated by the Lytfire team it really did take us 2 hours to calibrate the mirrors.

Kurt Baumann, Building Teacher, Switzerland

I’m especially excited about this technology because it can be built locally, so it will not be limited by the harsh import duties imposed on us

Moutasem Hassan, builder and entrepreneur, Palestine

"Instead of buying charcoal, we use the sun", great to see such a simple solution with so many applications - including commercial food production - in so many places (many in Africa, but also the video features Switzerland and Finland).

J. Turner

Want to cook instead of bake?

Get the Lytefire Stove Plans and build yours! Or purchase yours from one of our local manufacturers!

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A Lytefire Stove and a Lytefire Oven in a Swiss garden.

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