Solar Oven Sizzlers

Event Year: 2025
Event Location: Cocoa-FL
Competition: Solar Energy Cook-Off
Division: 3-5
School: Orlando Science Elementary
Team Name: Solar Oven Sizzlers
Project Name: Solar Sizzle Shack
Team Size: 2

Group team: Piper L and Thomas Y

School name: Orlando science elementary school

Grade level: 5th

We and our school have never competed on this topic before.

Our cooker is a box with shiny insulation and a cut up box tops with tin foil. All of this stuff came from Home Depot. We will have Plexiglas on top. To build the solar oven we first bought all of the stuff. This included:

• Pieces of tin foil
  
  18in x 18in piece of plexiglass
  
  insulation foam
  
  

INGREDIENTS

Blueberry Pancakes

​1 ½ cups fresh Florida blueberries plus more for garnish

2 ½ cups pancake mix

2 ½ cups milk

2 cups ricotta cheese

2 tablespoons butter for cooking

Blueberry Pancakes
Whisk together the pancake mix, milk and ricotta cheese in a large mixing bowl until smooth. The pancake batter should be thick (you can adjust the consistency by adding more milk or pancake mix). Gently fold the blueberries into the batter. Preheat a large sauté pan or griddle over medium heat. Add a small amount of butter to the cooking surface. Add an even amount of pancake mix to the cooking surface, making sure not to overcrowd the cooking surface. Let the pancakes cook until bubbles start to form in the top of the batter. Flip pancakes and continue to cook until golden brown and cooked throughout. Repeat process until all the pancake batter is used. Keep cooked pancakes warm in a 250-degree oven until ready to serve.