Solar Technology Used to Roast Chickens
An interesting solar invention was recently discovered in Thailand.
Sila Sutharat, a 50 year-old man dubbed the “solar man”, has invented a solar grill that uses solar energy to roast chickens.
Using specially design mirrors, the solar grill absorbs sunlight as energy and uses no additional fuels or energy source. It can cook a pre-marinated 3.5 pound chicken in about 10 minutes. Inspired by childhood experimentation with a magnifying glass, Sila cooks up to 50 chickens a day and sells them for around $5 each.
The solar man’s grill is located 55 miles outside of Bangkok and is only open from 7am to 11am each day when the sun’s rays are at their strongest. Of course the stand is closed whenever the sky is overcast or raining.
The solar grill invention has attracted so much attention that discussions are underway to export the technique to other Asian countries like Japan.
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By Mui Mui on 13-06-2008
Comment by Allen
June 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
my gosh, the age we live in…..
Comment by ....
June 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
…. OMG… this is very old.. comon, weird asia.. u can do better the to recycle the old posts!
Comment by jay
June 13th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I’ve never seen this before. Thank you for posting this!
Comment by darkwing duck
June 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
F*ck company with Research and development and burning money.
This guy build a machine that work’s. Without the million of dollars and technology like a big lab And the typing monkeys
Good job and you are making money.
Comment by sultan_azteca
June 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
How does he manage to not cook his arm while flipping the chickens on the “grill”? Reaching out to a cooking chicken across the concentrated sun beams is like trying to flip a burger reaching out through the hot side of the burning coals/gas flames!
Still, outstanding idea!
Comment by Leon
June 16th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Nice post Mui Mui. Great idea with the global problems right now.
I am in Bangkok for the next week and would like to go and check it out for myself and see how it works. Can you post where it is, north, south, west or east of Bangkok, and if you know it, the name of the town. Would appreciate that. Again great post, and great idea by Sila.
Comment by ray
June 16th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hurray! He just saved the world from global warming!! Good thing people in Seattle don’t need to eat!
Comment by Mektoub
June 19th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Hey guys, this isn’t new or Chinese only at all, the solar cookers are indeed a very interesting and cheap way of cooking widely used in Africa for example because of the lack of wood for cooking.
In National Geographic’s “planet mechanics” cool program, they made a huge one to make a paella in Spain http://www1.natgeochannel.co.uk/explore/green/mechanics_prog.aspx?mediaType=video&ep=4
And if you want more info about this devices:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker
Continue the good work, your site is always fun to read!
Comment by Gayman
July 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I ate one of those and had the worst food poisoning. I died and everything.
Actually that’s proabably libel…
no wait, libel is verbal, slander? Is slander in print?
It’s one of those anyway.
Yeah, so don’t buy his chickens unless you like fail.
Comment by Shinty6
July 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Slander would be saying that that Sila Sutharat is a penis-face.
Which he is.
Comment by Richard Mongler
July 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I once used solar power, and my mom got scared And said, “You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.”I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought, “Nah, forget it. Yo home to Bel-Air!” I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8and I yelled to the cabby yo holmes smell ya later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
Comment by Boob Biter
July 30th, 2008 at 7:08 am
So photoshopped!
Comment by Christian
October 5th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I run a blog on solar cookers, so I am familiar with the technology pretty much in every way, but roasting chickens, I must admit this took me by surprise! I didn't think you have enough power for it, especially it is not a closed box that keep the heat inside. Interesting…
Comment by Uncle B
November 26th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Americans, after the 'Dollar Crash" will mount Fresnel lenses in their back yards and Bar-B-Q for free – possibly eating possum and other rodents as meat, who's production is oil dependent will disappear from the store-shelves! Beware! The next down cycle in the American economy hides in its trough the greatest depression ever! and the total collapse, of the American dollar, of the world financial system, then the rise of the 'Yuan" as the new currency of international trade! More Solar cooking will be seen in this new world, and Fresnel lenses large, durable, enough to make cooking practical will be manufactured in China, outside bull Shiite Yankee patent law, and made available to all mankind at reasonable cost. A new world is dawning as humanity frees itself from American corporatism, propaganda, and solar cooking is one sign of this evolution!