As you know, me and my hubby have been working in the last year or so towards our goal of living "off the grid". We've been looking into alternative energy options and how to make the most of those by checking out non-electric resources and products.
A few months ago I read about Sun Ovens in one of my favorite magazines. As I was in the middle of dehydrating season I just had to look into it because I know we use some much electricity when I run the oven to dry my vegetables for hours on end! Here are some of the things I discovered about the Sun Oven.
In a Sun Oven you can cook anything that you would normally cook in a conventional oven. You can also cook just about anything that you would cook on a stove-top in a Sun Oven also. Cooking time in a Sun Oven is very similar to that of a conventional oven unless you have a disruption in the sunlight or if you open the door too many times.
Sun Oven's do not require special pots and pans so you don't have an additional cost! You can cook more than one thing at once to be able to maximize your oven time, and as a bonus, foods in the Sun Oven don't burn!
After learning more about the Sun Oven the thing I really love about them is that they are just like a conventional oven, but they don't use any electricity. If you aren't sure how they work, you can check out all these How-To videos on the Sun Oven website.
Sun Oven is one of our sponsors here at Little House Living this month and they have a great offer just for LHL readers that are interested in purchasing a Sun Oven! Get up $80 off your Sun Oven purchase with special coupon codes, head over to the Sun Oven site for the deals and codes.
Sun Oven International would like to give one Little House Living reader their signature product, a Global Sun Oven! ($299 retail price) To enter this giveaway just fill out the Rafflecopter form below.
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We have been comparing sun ovens for a few weeks now. I have my heart set on a Global Sun Oven!
Cool! I’ve wanted a Sun Oven for awhile now.
I would love to have a Sun Oven! I love the idea of learning traditional ways to do everyday things. As a homemaker and homesteader, this would be something we would use regularly. I can imagine how good bread or roasted chicken would be in one.
I have wanted a Sun Oven for over a year now! It would be such a blessing to win one:) What a wonderful giveaway!!
I have wanted one of these for a long time
I would love to have one of these!
I have wanted to have one of these for years! Thanks for the info!!
I was just telling my husband that I want one these for Christmas.
Great giveaway! One step closer to living off the grid.
I have always wanted a sun oven, but unfortunately it is way beyond what we can afford right now! It would truly be a blessing to our family to win this!!!!
We have been looking into one so we could save money, become self-reliant, be able to cook outside when it is hot out and not have to heat the kitchen.
I would love to own a Sun Oven. In these uncertain times we truly need to be prepared and I would feel I was closer to that goal if I won this Sun Oven.
I want one and I NEED one. These are great!!
I have been trying to build a sun oven for a long time…Would love to win one…I just can’t afford one yet….Thank you for your site…
Lessen my carbon footprint.
So that we’re a bit closer to being self sustaining.
I would like a sun oven to save money and to be able to cook any where I go.
I would love to have a SunOven. Just haven’t been able to afford one right now. I would probably use it often. One more step to less the electric bill.
Isn’t that the coolest thing?! Brilliant.
I would love to win so we could cook during power outages.
I would love to win this oven. My Daughters have been making them out of foil and boxes for science and trying to cook with solar energy. It hasn’t been working to well for them. Winning this oven would bring us another step closer to our dream. We have been working diligently towards living off grid. To be able to cook in one of these beautiful ovens would be awesome.
Thanks for the opportunity.
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This solar oven would be a great addition to my homestead!!
I have been wanting one of these for so long. It’s a shame we rely so much on electricity wasting resources when there are products like this available. I just wish I could afford one.
I would love a Sun Oven!!! We would be prepared to feed our family of 5 in the event of an emergency, or we could use it to simply lower electricity bills! Also, our power goes off a lot here thanks to wind, storms, etc. This would be wonderful to have around! Fingers crossed…
This is on my need to get list, just has not worked its way to the top yet.
I want to win one because this would be great for survival.
I would love to win these to help my family become more “green” and it would come in handy for the power outages we have.
My dad is building a cabin in the backwoods of MN and is attempting to live “off the grid.” This would be the PERFECT gift for him.
We would LOVE to own one of these! The best!
I have heard these are the BEST! Woud love o have one of my own!
I’ve been reading up on these and would love to add one to our farmstead!
This looks so cool!
How cool! I would love one for drying fruits and veggies.
We’d love to have one. I once tried ot make my own but obviously did something wrong….this one looks good and I like the video too.
This would be amazing to have!!
I love Global Sun Ovens! We live in hurrican country now, and the possibility of powerless cooking when there may not be power is very appealing.
This would be awesome as a back-up cooking source. Plus a great homeschool/lifeskills project for my children to learn and use.
We have been eyeing these down for about a year. Would be awesome to win one!
I want a sun oven because, well, it looks like fun!
I didn’t know there was such a thing. It sounds great. It would be great to have one for “preparedness” reasons and also to use to save electricity.
We don’t have air conditioning, so we go all summer without using our oven. This would be awesome!
We live in the desert…I could use it year round! I made one last year out of boxes to see if I could actually cook that way…it’s great!
This product would help me get a start on our family’s journey to be more self-sufficient!
I’d like a Sun Oven because I’d like to be prepared with an alternative way to prepare food.
I’ve wanted one of these forever so I can cook outside while I’m working outside all day and so I don’t have to heat up the house!
I have looked into these, but I don’t think hubby is on board yet. Winning one would solve that problem.
I would like to have it for reasons similar to yours — to lessen dependency on others. This would go a long way to our goals!
I would love to have one! In Texas I could use it almost year round.
There are so many good reasons to use a Sun Oven – I’d love to win one so I can!
Have wanted one for a while now, but haven’t taken “the plunge”. Glad to have this review for reference.
We have finally been able to pay cash for our land to begin setting up our homestead. This would be a perfect addition to what we already have.
I’d like sun oven for camping and to use in our emergency kit in case we have another power outage like we did this summer following the derecho.
I’m always looking for ways to save on electricity!
I would love to have one to cook and dehydrate with. It would be a wonderful thing to have here in South Central Texas!
Having a large family I am always looking for ways to do things more affordably. I have wanted a sun oven for a long time. It is something everyone should have.
Hadn’t heard of this before today, but what a great idea! Now off to talk my hubby into getting me one of these!
It sounds so interesting. I would love to win one!
I have wanted one of these for years. I have a good friend who has one and she can cook anything in it!
This would definitely be a nice addition…we’re slowly trying to build up our storage/emergency prep stuff.
Since I’m using my oven now (for hours), I’d love something that didn’t use electricity and could save me money in the long run!
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Me too!
It would definitely cut down on our electric bill! We currently have an electric stove (YUCK!) and I LOVE to cook and bake…
This looks great and I would love to experiment with one of these. Best of luck to everyone entering the contest!
To win would be an amazing blessing!
We live on East Coast and lose power because of hurricanes and ice storms. The stove means we can continue to have warm meals
i will be living off grid so i will need this to cook daily!
I’d like to know if anyone has purchased one of these recently? I ask because reading older reviews on Amazon some indicated there was a “smell” associated with the product. I’m wondering if this issue has been resolved? TIA!
I am always looking for great off the grid items!
I have wanted one for awhile now. During the summer, it is not a rare thing to have the temps 112 degrees. I still want baked goods but do not want to cook even in the morning. This would be the perfect solution.
I have been researching sun ovens & would LOVE to have one for our homestead!!! We are trying to swap over to be as “self-sufficient” as possible & I feel that would be a step in the right direction.
Oh this would be such a fantastic way to cook! I hav been looking at solar ovens and would love to have this one!
What fun! I can think of lots of dishes I’d like to try in a Sun Oven.
This would be a fantastic additional option for cooking!
Because it’s one step closer to living off the grid
i have been slowly working on a year supply for my family the past couple years—im ALMOST there! but i really have no fuel storage/way to COOK the food if there was no power. so ive been looking into and saving for a sun oven and researching methods of refridgeration without power. this would be an awesome prize to win! thank you for the chance!
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I think it would be an amazing educational tool for my kids!
We would love a Sun Oven and not just for general preparedness reasons. I would love to take it camping or use it as an extra oven for holiday cooking. Can you imagine having an extra oven on Thanksgiving Day!!! I have a book on solar cooking with instructions on how to make a solar cooker at home but it is nothing like the Sun Oven. I saw their videos and it looks amazing and it keeps the food upright now matter how much to need to adjust/tilt the cooker to get the most sun rays. Wow!
This is awesome! I have been experimenting with raw food and alternative cooking methods. This sun oven would be another great cooking option. Thanks for the giveaway
I have been wanting one of these for at least a year but just can’t afford to buy one.
Our oven is gas so it’s a bit cheaper than running electricity but still, I would love to have another option if gas goes up.
What a great product! I would love to win one for my mother-in-law. She would LOVE it!
I bought that plans for making a homemade sun oven over 14 yrs. ago and my husband never made it for me. I would love to have one of these. Living in Arizona this would be one way to save especially during those 115 degree days of summer. Hugs, Bobbi Jo
This would be wonderful! Another step toward getting off the grid. I like becoming less dependent on utilities and big corporations and I would love a sun oven!
I would like to learn to use a sun oven for future times when electricity is unavailable and also to save energy.
This is on my wish list on Amazon. Would be great to win it.
Have been hoping to buy on for years.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Andy
I would love to have a sun oven and use less energy and be more self- sufficient. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I would love to have one for emergency purposes.
I have made my own sun ovens with wood and foil but they do not last and do not work as well as I want. I cannot afford to buy a good one. Winning one would be awesome. I am trying to get everything I need to get off grid eventually. This would be one step closer. Thank you for this chance to win one!
Awesome! Would love to add this to our “survival/preparedness room”!!!
Would love to have one! Anything to be able to conserve energy and reduce our costs of living is a good thing!
I’d love to be able to cook outdoors in the summer and to have the back up option if we lose power
I would like to experiment cooking with a sun oven.
This is a great Sun Oven. A few years ago, I would have said I wanted one for my daughter who was being homeschooled! Now I would love to have one and take it on camping trips and day trips!
Thanks for the opportunity!
This is such a cool giveaway! I would love to win this!
This is awesome. We moved onto a small farm a couple years ago and have been working towards homesteading and being self sufficient.
I would love to have a Sun Oven. We’re preparing for if there’s ever an emergency situation.
Living rurally in the Black Hills of SD I would love to have one of these. We are seniors but we still camp & fish alot & since it’s been so dry in the forests & surrounding countrysides we can’t have campfires & have to cook on propane. I would love to fix some of the trout we catch in one of these. Thank you for this prize givaway!
What a great giveaway. We’ve been looking for ways to lower our energy usage. How perfect is this! Thanks for the chance to win.
Great giveaway!! Would love to try a Sun Oven.
Awesome giveaway. Hope I win.
These are so neat. I’d love to have one. No gas, no charcoal, a great alternative energy option for cooking. I hope I win because this would be great for an emergency or survival situation.
We would love to win this firstly as a survival item and secondarily as a camping item. Thank you so much for such a generous giveaway.
I would love an option for being more independent of electricity.
This would be neat to win. Every one needs to become more self sufficient. And I love the thought of making your own food with the sun and not power from outside sources.
This will be great, we just moved to our homestead and this will be awsome so we dont heat up the house during these HOT Louisiana summers!!
This is the first time I’ve seen one
My hubby loves the idea of being self-sufficient too.
What a great idea for cooking with the sun. Wouldn’t help much in the darkness of winter here in Alaska.
I would LOVE to try cooking in a sun oven!
I think it would be another great way to save money and be more self sufficient!
Sounds like a great thing to have around during power outages as well as to keep from heating up the house in the summer.
i’d like to check it out.
This would be great!
Love this idea! My husband and I were just discussing survival items we need to get and I didn’t even think about an oven. This is perfect!
I would absolutely LOVE to win this. It’s perfect because I may soon be living where there is limited electricity.
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I’ve been looking for an alternative cooking method to use during power failures for some time. I love the fact that this oven would not pose a fire hazard or burn my food.
I’m so excited about this raffle!! I’ve wanted a solar oven for ages… lots of sun to make use of here. Hope to win this lovely product!
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I want a sun oven because it would be good for when we don’t have electric and it would teach my children about different ways you can cook food.
I want one to try so I will know how to run it for the Zombie Apocalypse. Thanks!
I love this – I grew up in Africa and I know that there are people who could use this there but I want one so I can be independent from using an oven inside on a hot day!
This would be great to have when the power is out, or for camping. I love the idea of cooking with the sun.
I’ve been wanting a solar oven like Sun Oven since I first saw a solar oven way back in my days as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa. Would be great to have on hand for an emergency and lots of fun learning to cook with it.
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I have been wanting a solar oven for ages. I would love to try this
Looks really neat! It would be great to have one of these!
We would love to have one of these to cut down the cost of electricity!
id love one of these so i can cook for my family if we lost power.
This would help me get a start on our family to be more self-sufficient!
Sun Oven was our second solar oven while living in South Sudan (we had received it as a gift from some Catholic Sisters) and it worked so much better than our first clunky wooden one. The Sun Oven was so light to move around! We had to leave it behind when we left S.Sudan but would love one now that we are living in sunny Saskatchewan.
I want a SunOven because it is too hot here (in Texas) to run our oven in the summer. I don’t use my oven in when the air conditioner is on, except to back our summer birthday cakes. It’s just too hot!
I would love to have a solar oven, any way to use less gas/electricity.
Camping, but mostly power outages.
This would be one more step to living off the grid.
Wow, what a great concept. I would love one of these!!
This would be a great asset for the prepping i am starting to do.
thank you
Wow, I’ve never seen or heard of the sun oven before now…looks awesome! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
This would be great on the farm!
It would be a great blessing for our family to win this sun oven!! Thank you
I have tried to make my own Solar Oven, but it never worked right. I would love to try this out, because living in the South, it gets very hot in the summer. When I turn on the oven, the whole house heats up. But, with a solar oven, I could use the natural resource to cook our food and keep the house cool.
We would love to have one of these! I have been looking for awhile, but they are out of our budget
You don’t have to use a certain kind of pan with a sun oven, but dark pans absorb and help distribute the heat. Also, many regular pans won’t fit in a sun oven. Just something to keep in mind! Thanks for the giveaway!
Looking into lots of survival and energy saving things these days. With a Sun Oven and a Rocket Stove, I would be set. They would complement each other quite nicely.
It would be nice to have to be prepared. They are also fun to teach kids how solar energy can be harnessed and used.
Wow this is really cool! Would love to win one!
What a great prize! I’d give it to my daughter & son-in-law for Christmas — they’d love it!
Self reliance!
We live in FL and have lots of hurricanes!
I want to save energy and teach my son about simple living.
Our family is working hard to live “off-grid” even though we are currently on the grid. We would like to use solar, wind and hydro power. The sun oven is something that I know could make a huge difference.
I would love to have one to be more self reliant. Thanks for the chance!
We have been researching and exploring ways to start incorporating more elements of off-grid living. The sun-oven would be a huge blessing! Thanks for having this giveaway!
A sun oven would be a fabulous way to conserve energy
We are trying desperately to minimize our electricity use / cost. This seems like a nice way to do so!
I would LOVE a sun oven. I have been trying to save up to buy one, but so far it has not happened. It would save us so much money. We are a one income, homeschooling family and this would be AWESOME! Thank you!
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I want a sun oven because we are always looking into ways to conserve energy.
I would love to cook on it regularly to some money on utilities and also review it online. It would be a great tool to teach people with!
This will be a good thing to have when the feathers hit the fan!
Xmas is coming. Maybe this is what I’ll get myself.
What a great giveaway – always wanted one!
How awesome! Would love to win this!!
I’ve been wanting one for awhile now!!!
Would love to have one of these. thanks for doing this
I’d like one to add to my supplies. You just never know when you might need this!
I would love a sun oven to help reduce our energy/gas cost, since moving to Nevada on military assignment we are finding it difficult to afford some things and so we invested in a small toaster oven to heat our foods, if we could be able to bake and cook all day long without the worry of a rising bill I would be ecstatic. We could also take it camping plus since we live in the desert I know we will have tons of sun to make good use of this oven.
This is very interesting…..it would be fun to try it or have for emergencies.
I would love to use a natual resource to cook our meals with.
My goal is to some day be self sustaining! With limited funds, I’m trying to do the best I can. One of these ovens would greatly help towards my goal!
I LOVE to cook and I’ve always been curious about Sun Oven cooking. Now that I’ve gotten into wanting to be much more prepared … this is a must!! LOVE your blog btw!
This has been on my wishlist for some time now. It would be wonderful to have and cook with. In my south Idaho sun, I could do so much.
need it!!!
This is the coolest product ever!! I want one do badly!
I have been interested in learning how to live off the grid- and this would be a necessity!
Would love one to decrease my carbon footprint and be more self-sustaining. Didn’t even know before your post that this existed!
I had never heard of this before, what a great idea.
I have been wanting one of these! Thanks for the chance to win one!
This is the first time I have seen a Sun Oven. Would be nice to have in order to be less dependent on electricity!
Wow wee, just found your web site and youtube vid’s, I would love one of these ovens. It would complement my lifestyle to a tee….and I could show it of to all who Tour The Solar Barn here in New Zealand..thanks for coming up with this fantastic idea…easy to take anywhere…
I want one to conserve energy
So cool! Would love to use less energy!
I’ve wanted a sun oven since I was first involved with solar energy in the mid-80s. I used to cook Thanksgiving dinner in a solar box oven. It would be so exciting to do it with the sun oven. And it would be very comforting to have one as backup when the power goes out. I’m glad you’re promoting it. Diana
It would be really great for our homeschool.
Who wouldn’t want a sun oven? Been planning to diy make one but need to check these out.
I want one because we love to cook off grid! We use dutch ovens a lot but they require coals, the sun oven just needs sun.
Great for our week long adventures at the lake every summer.
I was looking into purchasing one over the summer since we spend so much in electric plus wanted to learn to be off the grid and we camp a lot so it would be nice to be able to save money and learn to become more self sufficient. Love these!! <3
I really want one of these! They are so good for so many things! Especially when the power goes out!
I would like one to use on camping trips, or when the power is out!! Or just to save electricity!
I have wanted a sun oven for a couple years now and thought this year would be the one, however our finances just aren’t there. Hopefully next year!
I’ve wanted to try one for ages to be self sufficient and save money on power!
It would be great to win. I may have to ask DH to tell Santa this is what we are buying in lieu of exchanging presents.
I’ve always wanted one!
I have been looking a sun ovens, but have not been willing to spend the money on one. It would be fun to win one.