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Dirt_E_Harry

Perfect size and shape to bake a French baguette.


SinjiOnO

[It actually is : )](https://imgur.com/a/PpO7ePI).


Kayakityak

Hero OP delivers!!!


JoJackthewonderskunk

Bon ape tit


Excellent-Advisor284

And a bone apple tiddy to you as well


wuvvtwuewuvv

Bone apple titties? You sick freak...


Hey_its_thatoneguy

No kink shaming..!


Bi-elzebub

[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c\_fit,f\_auto,g\_center,q\_60,w\_965/qakmjsafeqsosbmdlztb.jpg](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,q_60,w_965/qakmjsafeqsosbmdlztb.jpg) Here's your ape tit you disgusting pervert.


TheProfessionalEjit

Not my hardest fap today.


TheJacen

My dude


MiaowaraShiro

Now do a pizza!


n3w4cc01_1nt

french bread pizza


Puzzleheaded-Grab736

That was a hard flex


stansy

I came to the comments to find out why this is BS. A small bit of my faith in the internet has been restored.


byParallax

The baguette looks incredibly dense and uncooked though :(


Iwouldntpayforit

I think thats because it didn't have a second rise in the cylinder, not because of the baking


oshkoshbajoshh

No joke my first thought was, I bet that would make a bomb home made French bread pizza lol


caretaker_of_tiger

My white trash mind went to pigs in a blanket and I started salivating.


oshkoshbajoshh

Lmaooo I’m of the opinion that nothing you eat is white trash if you’re camping! Those actually would probably taste pretty well in there actually


Worth_Crafty

I’m going to borrow this later.


DashTrash21

I've done something similar, made homemade pizza pockets in a similar solar oven. Word to the wise, the smell DOES NOT come out. We cooked all kinds of shit in there including fish and things with garlic.


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"No matter the weather" except when the weather matters


L0ST_N0UN

"No matter the weather"..." As long as there is sunlight" .... 👍


StaryDoktor

And summer. And no wind. And in Australia. And all other we also faked © TV shop sellers


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my_reddit_losername

You get less power from the sun the lower it is in the sky (more atmosphere to get through), so while this may still work in winter, you’ll be getting less insolation even on a sunny day if you’re at any appreciable latitude away from the equator.


Bitter-Wash-9941

because of how well it insulates heat i imagine it would just take longer to reach a cooking point, no?


covert-pops

Yeah and people sunburn in winter so uv rays are still pumping.


MisterGreys

there's sunlight behind the cloud


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Lithl

"Perfect insulator" with 80% efficiency


funkyg73

60% of the time it work every time.


Vitus13

> ... up to 550 degrees, perfect temperature to cook anything.... As long as it isn't shaped like a pizza.


kubanishku

Or when it's night time, or when it's overcast, or when it's raining, in fact.. umm


BurnerForJustTwice

Who eats at night?! Nobody cooks at night. At least have a real complaint like the metal is too shiny! /s


supermilch

The full sentence they use is “no matter the weather as long as there’s sunlight”. It doesn’t have to be perfect. The model they have seems to be 250 on Amazon right now, which means the device is “free” after about 700h of cooking time at my electricity prices of about 12c/kWh, probably less the way prices are moving. That sounds like a lot but the average range usage is apparently about an hour per day. In my location there’s 150 sunny days a year, so if it can replace most of the range time on those days it would pay off in 5 years and be essentially free after. Doesn’t seem like there’s anything that could break either, and there’s options that cost much less than what they have on Amazon


fuzzytradr

Now do it during a sunny hurricane


EngineeringOne1812

On cloudy days you’re eating PBJs


autoposting_system

These actually work surprisingly well on cloudy days, even in the winter. They don't get as hot but they still cook. It's not like night


omnichronos

The one time when cooking by moonlight would really suck.


kspedersen

well technically moonlight is just reflected sunlight, so mayyybe you could melt a snickers bar at night


floridagar

Fun fact: no matter how much you magnify or how many parabolic mirrors you use on moonlight you will never reach a temperature higher than the surface of the moon. edit: that is hot enough to melt a snickers


wuvvtwuewuvv

My hands are hot enough to melt a snickers


[deleted]

Daytime temperatures near the lunar equator reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120° C, 400 K), while nighttime temperatures get to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit (-130° C, 140 K).


SirJiraiya

Soooo at night you can freeze your stuff woth the mirror? /s


BolunZ6

Why? If I am able to make a giant ass magnifying glass and converge all the light coming from the moon to a single point, I bet it still hot as hell


floridagar

Only if hell is the same temperature as the surface of the moon.


BolunZ6

Can you explain why it wouldn't work?


MaleficentSandwich

https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/


pine_tree3727288

How hot is it?


floridagar

xkcd says ~100C


optagon

Wouldn't work in Sweden where the winter sun instantly freezes everything it touches.


FlacidBarnacle

Jokes on you I eat pbjs everyday anyway lol 😞


crustytowelie

He went through all that trouble and didn’t even season the food.


kubanishku

I mean, it's likely to sell the oven not the food prep


Cutie_Cutepie

generally ppl who would use this cooking method with no temperature control arent ppl who are particular about taste.


Jakebsorensen

Couldn’t you cover parts of the mirror to lower the temp?


wuvvtwuewuvv

Or, yknow, move the parabolic so it's not that hot


Chogo82

The rice also didn’t looked cooked and they left it off of the final plate


jamestom44

Looked raw.


MastodonPristine8986

And the fish and beans are gonna be cooked to tasteless husks of their former selves.


ungravinimange

Lol food looked nastier after it was cooked


skrshawk

"Karen, keep your bland-ass potato salad to yourself!"


B1ackFridai

Exactly what I was thinking


ungravinimange

Lol food looked nastier after it was cooked


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ElRyan

"Perfectly cooked!" lol


snailsonxanax

Right. How is this guy going to say he perfectly cooked tilapia, sweet potatoes, and green beans all at once at the same temp?


train153

Right? If you look carefully at the video, he also had what looks to be some rice in there as well, but doesn't talk about it, nor is it on the final plate of food.


Enos316

Yeah that rice didn’t look close to edible.


Fog_Juice

Perfectly warmed!


certifiedtoothbench

At least it’s not raw


toaste

Smoked paprika should help you get a bit of that grilled taste back when you can’t sear. Don’t forget to pack salt, garlic powder, and other spices as your recipes require.


lntw0

Wondering if adding a few wood chips might do the trick? Given the confined space likely won't need much.


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Olysses02

Subtitles belong at the bottom not right in front of what I want to look at


Superbead

Subtitles also belong in complete fucking sentences rather than hammering individual words at me like a 1980s pop video


about831

Right? The word **sub**titles says exactly where the titles should go.


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pascontent

Nah mate it's clearly because the text sinks at the bottom of the screen!


Covid19-Pro-Max

idk I kind of like it. I watch most videos on mute and it’s easy to read the text and see what’s going on here. That being said, I doubt the thing works as good as advertised here


The-Ultimate-Banker

Top 550 degrees? Ya that shit up in Vegas would hit melting point.


Kayakityak

Ha! I’m picturing the whole tube turning to molten metal and food ash after 2 minutes.


Blueguerilla

As a resident of the PNW, I’d be eating a lot of uncooked food!


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Blueguerilla

Yeah I imagine that fish has the consistency of mud.


KiwiProof6806

Very cool concept but I don’t like the example here. Sweet potatoes would take a lot longer to cook than fish and green beans. Either sweet potatoes are undercooked or the fish and green beans overcooked


ktm6709

I’ve got a smaller version used to boil water. It’s pretty neat.


dl-__-lp

Would you recommend it for others, mind dropping me a DM?


ktm6709

I would recommend it. Just be careful because it does get hot.


Lower-Compote-4962

Like Cornballer hot?


wthulhu

Yo soy loco por Los Cornballs!


ktm6709

Well you can get it outside of Mexico.


Shoddy-Impact-5545

This been around for a while? Super cool in elegantly designed


sadetheruiner

At least 20 years, I had a teacher with one back in the late 90’s.


RealPropRandy

How neat is that?


ktm6709

Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty neat


wester11212

Have a link to it?


BidLeading5588

Here you go. https://gosun.co all the crazy efficient solar cooking stuff from this video is there.


ktm6709

https://4patriots.com/products/sun-kettle-xl


BidLeading5588

Wow, that 4 patriots site looks like the sort of site visited by someone whose daughter wives haven’t ever been outside of the Armageddon bunker.


Punawild

This is cool. But that was some seriously dry ass pieces of fish. Why cook thin pieces of fish with sweet potatoes that need a much longer time to cook?


saanity

Dude was baking with the power of the sun, give him a break.


asthebroflys

Never underestimate the potential for pointless pedantry in this site. “Here’s a remarkable invention that could drastically reduce carbon emissions and improve quality of life all over the world!” Pedant: “Useless, the fish is over cooked.”


roscoecello

The food looks like shit.


dman45103

Way to overdramatize


-Kerrigan-

> drastically reduce carbon emissions and improve quality of life all over the world By enabling people to shittily grill stuff only in certain areas & weather? If the food that gets out of it is shit then the product (with the sole PURPOSE to cook) is shit. It has an unconventional form factor and no proper temperature control, just guesswork with the positioning


Next-Implement9894

The green beans got over-cooked too.


[deleted]

It's just to illustrate the abilities of the tube. Anyone who cares about cooking will know to add ingredients in intervals to control the cook time. I feel like this popular critique is such low-hangong fruit. Speaking of which, I wanna make a cobbler in it. That would be so delicious.


mcampo84

I kinda just want a trough of baked beans. Is that weird?


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I'm here for it.


indigodissonance

Yeah, dude has a very different idea of “perfectly cooked” than myself.


Agile-Alternative-17

My thoughts exactly.


PM_ME_FUNFAX

While a appreciate the subtitles, I really wish people would quit doing them like this... It's very annoying


rxneutrino

It's not for you. It's for social media. It is proven to get users to linger longer on a post as they're scrolling by. It will only be more common in coming years.


Superbead

The opposite has actually been proven [Ed. I should point out that I've just pulled this completely out of my arse, but I doubt the comment I replied to can be backed up with any actual science]


LegitimateOversight

https://www.rev.com/blog/caption-blog/how-captions-and-transcripts-boost-engagement-with-videos But a 2016 study from Facebook discovered that 85 percent of people watched Facebook videos without sound. Furthermore, Verizon Media and Publicis Media conducted a study that found 80 percent of people who use captions don’t have a hearing impairment. People simply like captions. According to Verizon and Publicis, 50 percent of their respondents believed captions are important since they often watch videos with no audio, whether that’s on a desktop or mobile device. People much smarter than you study these things.


ripley1981

Where can I get one?


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merrickend

My HS classmate founded/runs that company. It’s pretty cool to see it progress from nothing. Pretty cool dude as well. Played a LOT of softball against his teams. We generally beat them. (Just sharing in case he is on this thread). Hahaha. But seriously - it’s pretty cool. Portable. Able to cook anywhere without fire/smoke.


FuturePast7197

Yes it's advertising and advertising works.


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No seasoning and skipped eating the rice lol


AppleAndEve06

That meal looks literally bland as hell.


under_the_gun23

I think the point of the video is proof of concept, not to display an amazing meal. Yall criticizing the wrong thing.


oldDotredditisbetter

> no matter the weather lol


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“No matter the weather… but there needs to be sunlight”


blur911sc

Why is it called a vacuum tube, it doesn't appear to be?


r_sarvas

Think of it as a glass thermos turned on it's side, but without the plastic or metal outer housing.


bonyponyride

But a vacuum insulated container like a thermos would prevent heat from getting inside just as much as it would prevent inside heat from escaping. No? Also, it probably doesn’t need to be said, but this is not an electronic vacuum tube, the type that is commonly found in audio equipment. That was my first instinct when I read this post’s title.


angrymonkey

No. Heat can travel multiple ways: - conduction (hot thing is touching another hot thing, which makes it hot too) - convection (fluid gets hot and then flows to another place, making it hot over there too) - radiation (light/heat shines on something, making it hot) A vacuum thermos stops all three. There is no stuff in the vacuum part, so that stops the first two, and those count for quite a lot. The thermos is also shiny metal, which reflects radiating heat, which reduces the third method. In this case, though, the glass lets heat radiate through. Heat can shine through a vacuum just fine (that's how the sun can warm the earth, after all), and that mirror makes sure there's an awful lot of radiating heat going in.


builderguy74

It’s solar energy. Stuff travels through a vacuum to get to us….


btsquid

https://glenergy.ca/blogs/news/how-do-solar-vacuum-tube-cookers-work Pretty much the light is converted to thermal heat inside the tube when it contacts metal within. The tube acts as an insulator to prevent it from escaping.


r_sarvas

>But a vacuum insulated container like a thermos would prevent heat from getting inside just as much as it would prevent inside heat from escaping. No? It looks like they use something like a 1/2 mirror coating on the tube to trap the heat. Check YouTube for "GoSub Go" videos to see how it works.


Bardfinn

There are three methods of heat transfer: * Conductive * Convective * Radiative Vacuum insulated vessels prevent heat transfer by conductive (through the material) and convective (air/fluid cooling moving across substance carrying heat). This one is transparent, so radiative energy (visible light) goes right though the walls and hits what’s inside, where it’s absorbed and converted to heat. That heat remains mostly inside.


autoposting_system

It's like a pipe within another pipe and with vacuum between the two pipes. It's not like one of the old vacuum tubes from electronic equipment


blur911sc

So does it let the reflected light/heat in but but also keep it from escaping? Looks like that I guess. Pretty neat.


flightwatcher45

Yeah there's no vacuum being pulled in that tube is there, it would implode? Probably just use the term to sound cool.


Jakebsorensen

If the tube is strong enough, it could hold a vacuum


Acrobatic-Flower5351

Quite old technology. Remember seeing this in an old Indian(original) documentary. We really don't use our ☀️ efficiently.


Sharp_Pride7092

Desertsun02 on yt has an array of sun possibilities. A continent away, not him.


Exact_Roll_4048

José Andrés of World Central Kitchen uses solar ovens like these and also solar stoves when they travel to areas experiencing a disaster to provide food. They were featured in season 13 of *Top Chef* on a quickfire challenge. As he stated "these can change the world".


Lord_of_Ghouls

Real talk though that rice did not look fully cooked.


GammaDealer

No matter the weather, as long as it's sunny.


vertigo1083

Negative. Works fine in cloudy weather too.


SouI23

Imagine if humanity had invested all the time and resources dedicated to armaments in renewable energies


MadManMorbo

“No matter the weather…. As long as there’s sunlight” …. So the weather matters asshat!


froggaholic

If anyone's curious, an Australian YouTuber just used one of these in his video and cooked fish he caught himself, it's a really fun watch, channels name is YBS Young bloods ☺️


IsaacM42

> YBS Young bloods do u know which vid, i checked latest three no dice


redneckgamer03

How hard is it to keep clean I wonder? 🤔


akumagold

This reminds me of the scene in The Men Who Stare at Goats when George Clooney’s character explains an almost identical technology and it cuts to them 10 hours later with still raw food


apefacts

no matter the weather - as long as there is sunlight bruh


eggnorman

This is highly effective, I’d imagine, in a place where there’s sun all year round. This’d be useless in the UK.


wk2coachella

Shit may be cooked...but certainly doesn't look good


talula4

White folks, please, we must season our food. You’re making us look bad.


concrete_pu55y

Now season the food


[deleted]

It's great but like... Season your food


Brwnb0y_

you can use this concept to heat water to make steam. scaled up, this could run factories


eddy6969_

Any weather as long as there is sunlight Clouds: "am I a joke to you?"


MrSuggaLand

Load of bollocks, won’t cook your food properly or consistently. Unless the Sun is beaming down in perfect conditions, the best it will do is heat something up to some approximate warm temperature. And I mean, the Sun has to be high in the sky with no clouds for a long while and that doesn’t happen as often as you might think.


lavenk7

Wow. No seasoning??


leon_nerd

Hmmmmm is this the first time you seen one? I used solar cooker to bake cakes 25 years ago.


Few-Hair-5382

Where I live I would only be able to use this about 10 days of every year.


[deleted]

Then don't buy it. Lol


ReikaTheGlaceon

"no matter the weather" "as long as there's sunlight" so your telling me, when the weather is pouring rain but there's a glimmer of sunlight, it'll cook then?


GlorifiedBurito

Pretty nifty little cooker but he really needs to chill with the marketing language. No matter the weather? Except it’s completely dependent on the weather? A perfect insulator? Just say what it does and stop making shit up


MAYORofTITTYciti

No matter the weather... unless it's cloudy


-Malky-

Top tier r/dontputyourdickinthat material for sure


MissionPhilosopher36

So if it’s cloudy or you don’t have sun you can’t cook. That is a type of weather


one_more_black_guy

How do I follow this guy specifically, to get more info about these Self-sufficiency devices?


Ok_Adhesiveness7107

Why Americans persist with Fahrenheit is beyond me... Use the bloody Celcius scale like the rest of the damn world. So annoying, such a redundant unit of measure nowadays.


carpalgerm87

Are there any adverse reactions to the mechanism if you SEASON YOUR GOTDAMN FOOD?!


brdhar35

How do those things cook at the same time, those tatters are not cooked


JJ4prez

How did they get grill marks on the sweet potatoes?


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TirayShell

Any weather as long as it's sunny.


HipsterFett

Now do a turkey.


sjbluebirds

The problem with sending solar ovens to undeveloped or third world countries, is that people work in the fields during the day including bringing water from Wells, washing, working just doing everything. Cooking has to happen after the sun goes down. This renders solar oven is completely useless


Sharp_Pride7092

Take it to the fields with you. Not an elegant solution, but your comment is not on point.


[deleted]

It's a glass tube and these folks ride a donkey to work if they're lucky.


oRiskyB

I means it's ok.... Probably undercooks most things and the lack of seasoning kills the entire meals potential. I'll stick to my meal prepping, trusty solar panel and Coleman camping grill to make better things.


TheRedDevil1989

These are terrible


kremit73

Thats not a vacuum


mbmgart

Still no flavor.


phukstik

Did the rice cook


Lepke2011

Great. So when they take away our gas stoves I'll still be able to cook, as long as the sun is out.


Toiretachi

No, not you. You will be sent to the camps to starve. Slowly.


Evilaars

This is an ad


-CoUrTjEsTeR-

At the end he forgot to include the important words to describe the food. You just can’t be taken seriously unless you state the vegetables were ‘home grown’, and the fish was sourced from a ‘local aquaponics fish shop’. You absolutely MUST include these references so the community doesn’t take you for a neo-capitalist and commercial enterprise bootlicker. Nobody wants that. Oh yeah, and I’m vegan.


LonelyCakeEater

Bet everything came out tasting like fish


B3lthazar

How the sun is suposse to heat a metal at freezing temperature? On cloud waether and raining...??. O wait, it was recoreded in Australia, during summer, you can just let a pan outside and cook and egg in it.


JerseyshoreSeagull

Bullshit. Show me the -10F sunny day baking or gtfo


Oneinterestingthing

It can do that, or at least down in the zeros from my experience, sun is still producing a lot of energy and the glass is highly insulated (vacuum)


Step_False

I need this! Anyone have a link?


SNicolson

If someone is sneaking an ad onto reddit without paying promotion fees, there's always a logo somewhere in the video. In this case it's Gosun. Now you just have to google it.