I designed the EZ-3 Solar cooker (standing on the shoulders of giants) to be relatively simple, effective, and useful for youth projects, as well as useful for anyone wanting to cook small amounts—up to a quart—of food in a light, easy cooker that folds flat for storage and transport. The EZ-3 might best be classified as a small hybrid panel-oven, since the whole cooker goes into the cooking bag, eliminating the need to bag or otherwise "greenhouse" the cooking vessel as with typical panel cookers. A cut out, foiled box corner is sized so that the whole cooker can be eased into a Reynolds turkey sized oven bag, which makes for a little more stability than a typical panel cooker, if skies are less than ideal.
This is a surprisingly effective little cooker for up to one quart of food and works very well with either small, dark pots or pint or quart cooking jars. I often use it to cook or heat my summer lunches or to make small amounts of treats that I don't want to overeat. It is a great cooker if one member of a family is on a special diet, whether for weight-loss, allergy, or other health considerations. With a few of them a couple or small family could cook a multi-dish meal.
There will eventually be an EZ-3 Solar Cooker Book, with detailed instructions and lots of recipes. Meanwhile anyone who really wants to give one a try can work it out from what is posted on the EZ-3 Solar Cooker Wiki Page, and some of the scaled-down recipes have been posted on the Solar Cooking Wiki Recipes pages. You can even learn to make excellent coffee in your EZ-3 on the Beverages page.
This site—and the book-in-progress—will continue to grow, so explore the pages that are up now (don't miss my young friend Victoria's great report!). Check out the Links page, which has more solar cooking links as well as sections for global dimming, sustainability, writing, and cool people and stuff. Come back now and then to see what's new as this site continues to evolve.
For more information on solar cooking, the lean, effective technology that can make cooking clean, green and fun (as well as doing more to mitigate climate change and human suffering than any other single affordable technology) the best resources are:
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