Lytefire DIY Community Solar Cooker

Installed in a Swiss garden.

Get your Lytefire DIY Community Solar Cooker Construction Plans

65 pages to guide you step by step in English or in French

If you are willing to cook for your friends and family, these construction plans are for you!

Package’s content:

1 Construction Plans with the detailed step-by-step instructions (35 pages)
1 User Manual, with the instructions on assembly, focusing and using, site selection and safety (30 pages)
Video Tutorial: Installing the Mirrors (in English, with French subtitles)
Video Tutorial: Building the Upward Reflector (in English, with French subtitles)
Your access to Lytefire Hub with a dedicated builders forum where you can post, learn and get tips

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Solar Cooker Construction Plans with the detailed step-by-step instructions and individual parts fabrication drawings (65 pages, available in English and French)

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What can you do with Lytefire Cooker?

Make pancakes, bacon and hash browns for 20 people
Solar cooking for 20 people, like fry 25 eggs in 5 minutes
12 kg of rice and 5 kg of lentils very nicely cooked in 1 hour 5 minutes (50 liter pots)
Boil 8 liters of water takes 30 minutes
Cook crêpes, jams, jellies and marmalade
Make big quantities of tomatoes sauce after harvest season
Cook a big stir fry or an nice pan pizza
Pan roast delicious nuts like almonds, hazelnuts or cashews for your granola
Roast raw coffee beans
And the food tastes the same!

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Lytefire DIY built is recommended only for private uses. This Lytefire is not a mobile unit.

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Examples of Lytefire Cooker in use.

Technical Specifications:

Uses only direct concentrated sun ray, no fuel costs
Produces 2000 Watts of thermal energy
Reaches up to 300°C / 572°F
No automated tracking: you need to slightly turn the Lytefire every 10 mins to follow the sun
Width: 2m, length: 3m, height: 2m
The combined surface of all mirrors is 4 square meters
Requires a sunny flat space of at least 4.5 m of diameter in which to operate with no shade
Easy to clean: only water and soap to clean the mirrors
If properly built and painted, the Lytefire will last about 16 years
The materials are plain steel, bolts, mirrors and can be found almost everywhere. The price can vary from one retailer to the other so take your time to compare.
With optimal conditions, it takes 3-4 days to build your Lytefire . Otherwise, count 1-2 weeks.

Safety:

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 cooking is recommended
After usage, always turn down all mirrors to completely turn off the concentration.

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Lytefire in a sunny Swiss garden

Cooking:

Cooking happens exactly as on any stove and you watch the pot :)
Food taste the same with solar cooking
Dark pots are recommended. No fat is leaking down to the reflector.
On the side of the Cooker, a lever allows you to change the inclination of all the mirrors at once to increase or decrease the heat.

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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Preparing for pan pizza!

Check out how Lytefire Community Cooker works well in Finland even in November! And yes, at the time our brand was GoSol :)

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**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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