Top 4 Solar Stoves for Camping: Expert Picks

Customer Review: Produit reçu rapidement et en parfait état. Il est super efficace, facile d’utilisation. Idéal pour des randos ou du camping. Attention sa capacité est vraiment pour une personne. Pour plus il faudra renouveler la cuisson. Cuisson rapide, je fait un œuf en moins de 5mn avec un ciel dégagé. Cuisson de la viande et légumes en environ 10mn. Le petit cadran permettant de s’aligner correctement avec le soleil est très pratique. Il est léger en rentre facilement dans un petit sac à dos.

Customer Review: El termo y las placas reflectantes funcionan muy bien. Tan solo una pega y es que el agua de la bandeja se sale gota a gota por el lado del cierre, hay que colocar algo para que empape. Por lo demás bien, contenta con la compra.

Customer Review: This is a good camping solar oven or good addition to your prepper supplies. It is well made, lightweight and easily stored. It is a good size and will hold a 5-qt Dutch oven. It is a great, easy to use product, limited only by availability of sunlight. It is a well thought out design to maximize and focus the use of the sun’s heat for cooking and warming food or heating water. Folds up and comes with its own bag with handles for easy storage.

Customer Review: Tried these on a clear day and they didn’t heat up past 300 degrees. We put in some left over food we had grilled the night before and it heated it up to a nice temp. I don’t know if the sun was to low on the horizon or what but we will try again once the days get longer and warmer.

Customer Review: I was very surprised how well this oven worked. As the developer promised, pay close attention to the folds and construction. Even before I realized my mistake with the order and the folds, I made a toast and melted cheese sandwich, followed by some stir fry veggies and an egg. Once I got the building figured out, the device got up to 325 degrees on a not particularly sunny but hot Arizona late morning (from 10 a.m. to noon) and quickly cooked up a batch of muffins. Next came a couple of quiches, and then some more muffins. These were done without the best of vessels. A pizza rock that had blackened with use was turned upside down for the base on top of a veggie holder that came in our new indoor oven. (The round grill that came with it was not easy to use as it is easily tipped.) I used my red silicon muffin form on the rock and then covered it with another blackened pizza pan set up on a couple pieces of wood on the side so the pan didn’t touch the muffins. All that went into one of the two plastic bags that came with it. Ordered a 2-inch high pizza pan (in black) to take the place of the shallow pizza pan. It makes the process of sliding tray into bag and onto cooler a breeze. And I did go ahead and get a set of pots to make life easier with beans, rice, etc. A black wrought iron skillet worked well, too, for first toast and cheese. And today with leftover muffin batter, I put it in a bread pan, put that into the small black skillet with the big skillet on top, and that went into plastic bag on top of the unsteady grill. That all went onto of a couple of car window reflectors. What can go wrong? As for the cooker, besides getting the folds worked into the “memory” of the material, it’s important to position the oven for morning/evening and 10 to 2 cooking. As the developer said, practicing and working with the unit is necessary to get it right. You have to see where the sun is reflecting into the tray and then you have to learn how to set the wingnuts to hold the panels in the correct position. Wind was not the problem I feared it might be. We have some pretty strong winds in the afternoons in Arizona. Luckily the All Season Solar Oven has plenty of spaces in the design that allow wind to go through it without carrying it away. Plus, the food inside is going to weight it down. And I’ve got three bricks to use around the base to keep it from sliding on the table. I see many hours of usage for this thing. Beans, rice, quinoa, bread, muffins, stir fries, pizzas. Besides cutting down on oven use and cost, the greater advantage results in keeping the house cool and comfortable without having to run the AC more. I tried a couple of less expensive cookers, but they were flimsy and not worth the money. This one is a bit more expensive, but with it, in our opinion. Also, it’s easy to clean.

Customer Review: I’ve been solar cooking for several years now with an All-American Sun Oven, which I absolutely love. But I’ve always been intrigued by the All Season cooker for a few reasons: You can actually fit a turkey roaster in it, it looks cool and, I like gadgets and wanted to try it. I’m glad I did. I agree that the assembly instructions could be better, but that’s no big deal. If you actually READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and watch the inventor’s YouTube videos before frantically trying to put it together, you’ll be fine. Here are my two favorite things about it: You can cook larger meals in it than other solar cookers, including a turkey, and you can use it from the time the sun rises because of the way the panels adjust for low-and high-sun conditions. Because of this unique adjustability, you don’t need a leveling tray like you do in the All-American oven. This quickly got to 250 degrees. While it won’t get as hot as the Sun Oven, it easily cooks and bakes things. Like with ANY and EVERY product, it takes a little time to fully learn how to use it. Take that time! Because of the adjustable panels, I’ll be able to use this in the winter when the sun is low in the sky. The affordable price is another great thing about this solar cooker, especially if you want to buy one for a friend, child or relative to introduce them to joys and thrills of solar cooking. This thing is also portable, meaning light-weight. I don’t always enjoy lugging the 25-pound Sun Oven out of the garage. I’m looking forward to cooking more stuff in this, especially a turkey. I might update this review later on. If you want to try solar cooking, this is a great start. I’m so glad that this cooker is out there. This is a great product and I recommend it to anyone who wants to try solar cooking. UPDATE. July, 19, 2025 When I first reviewed the All Seasons cooker two years ago I basically said it was a good starter solar cooker. After two years of cooking with this thing, I’m now reassessing my original opinion. I now think that this is the best solar cooker out there. There are five reasons for my saying this: price/affordability. capacity, adjustability, versatility, and the customer service, meaning the accessibility of the inventor Jim LaJoie. I’ll go through my reasons. Price. At just over $100, this is wonderfully affordable. Anyone can afford it. And the value and usefulness for the money is over the top. My first solar oven, the All-American Sun Oven, is now selling for $750! Seven hundred and fifty bucks. That’s insane. That company a few years ago was selling two stackable, three-pound-capacity enamel pots for ninety-nine dollars. Crazy. It’s so nice to see that LaJoie is keeping his American-made product affordable and not trying to force American customers to subsidize customers in other countries. Capacity. From what I can tell, this is the largest capacity solar cooker for the home market. I can fit–and I have–a full-sized roaster in this thing and cooked a seventeen-pound turkey. That’s crazy good. The capacity of box cookers is limited by their inside dimensions, of course, and even the largest can’t hold a full-sized roaster. Other panel and parabolic cookers can only hold a single pot. The All Seasons cooker beats them all when it comes to capacity. Adjustability. The panels are easily adjustable. You can easily slide them to catch the angles of the sun as it moves across the sky. And, because of this adjustability, you can cook with this thing from early morning to late afternoon. Not all solar cookers can do that. Versatility. You can cook with this in the fall and winter. By flipping this thing over you can adjust the panels to catch the sun when it’s low in the sky in the fall and winter. I guess that’s why it’s called All Seasons. Finally, the inventor/owner Jim LaJoie. He is accessible. Jim has a YouTube channel and he promptly answers questions about how to use the All Seasons cooker. It’s damn good customer service when the owner gets back to you. So, for all the reasons above–especially the price and capacity–this is the best solar oven you can buy. I’m glad I bought it, and I will buy another one just because I can.

Customer Review: I bought this for emergency preparedness. I live in Western Oregon, and it is partly cloudy a lot. Because of the vacuum tube, this works when other solar cookers don’t. I have had this two days. The first day, under partly cloudy skies, it got up to 240 degrees and cooked white rice in 1 1/2 hours. Today, I tried cooking whole-grain einkorn that I would normally cook on the stovetop for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. I put it in the solar oven while cursing the partly-cloudy sky that made shadows intermittent. Because of the sky condition, the oven only got up to 220 degrees. I didn’t check the einkorn for five hours. Big mistake – it was way over-cooked and mushy by the time I finally opened it! Very impressive. I can’t wait to try it with beans; this time with a shorter cooking window. I love this cooker; I’m hoping that someone will make sturdier cooking pans for it.

Customer Review: I cook lunch and dinner every day. This is my second unit, my first one I’ve had for 4 years. Still works fine. I just wanted another one.