Easy Bake or Solar Oven

By Abrielle and Blake

          

  Abrielle and I want to see which was easier to use
when making  pretzels:  Easy Bake Oven or a
homemade solar powered oven?  We got the idea to
do this when we made a solar oven experiment

and we made smores earlier this year in Mrs.Rogers’
math class and it worked well.

  This time we are making  pretzels using the Easy
Bake Oven mixes. We waited until we had very
warm weather to do this experiment.

We  let both of the ovens bake for 10 minutes.   Now,
we are seeing which one cooked better.   

                           materials   

•    Solar oven
•  Easy bake oven                       
•  Spoons/whiskers
•  Bowls
•  Measuring cups
•  Water
•  Pretzel mixes

 

How To Make A

Solar Oven

These are the things you will need to
make a solar oven…A shoe box (pick a size),

duct tape, black paper, aluminum foil,
decor(optional), and saran wrap.  

First, you take the shoe box and if you choose to
use duct tape, you cover all the box with it.
After,  you cut the top or bottom out whatever
side you would like to use.  Be sure not to cut
off the flap of the box when  you cut. Once
you cut your hole, put foil on your flap so that
the sun will reflect more heat into the oven.
The sun shines on the foil and bounces off into
the pretzels. Next,angle your flap so that the sun
is shining on your oven.  If your flap

will not stay up by itself use a Popsicle stick or a
wooden stick.  

Cover the inside of your oven will black paper.  
When you decide to use your solar oven, put your
food in it. Once your food is in it put your saran
wrap over your hole on your oven.  

Finally,  you have made your very own solar oven!

Here are the steps

to doing the

experiment

1.You turn on your easy bake oven and you
put your solar oven outside were a lot of sunlight
will hit it.

2.Follow the directions on the Easy Bake Oven
pretzel mix and make pretzel in the shape or
form that you would like.

3.When your are done making the pretzel  
dough put your dough in your easy bake oven
and solar oven.

4.Put saran wrap over the solar oven and set
timer for 10 min.

5.When your timer goes off  pull your pretzels
out of the

easy bake oven and out of the solar oven.

6.See which one cooked better.

7. Enjoy your pretzels!