Every family should have solar ovens in their disaster preparedness kit.
Aside from medicines, a first aid kit, flash lights and canned goods, a solar oven is also necessary so if you have to evacuate your home, you will have a place where you can cook your food safely and effectively.
Sun ovens only use solar power to cook your food, so it really is a great thing to have during emergencies.
Cooking in solar ovens is practical and easy.
Also, you'd be delighted to discover that some types of food like vegetables and stews even taste better when slow cooked in sun ovens.
You do not need any sort of fuel or kindling because all the heat will be generated from the sun.
It does not produce smoke which is advisable for evacuation areas where there are a lot of people living in close proximity to each other.
Solar cooking is a safer option than building a campfire, for example.
Campfires or cooking pits can cause fires that may cause even more damage to the evacuees' property.
The use of sun ovens is also more sanitary than campfires because all the food is cooked within the oven and is then not exposed to dust or dirt in campfires or cooking pits.
Solar cooking also allows the users to cook a variety of food that can optimize their food supply.
Finally, solar ovens can even double as a temporary cooked food storage cabinet that will keep your food fresh and warm for hours.