Solar cooker

The "exciting" thing about being a parent is that when your child comes back with a challenging project from school that will daunt even adults, you learn something along with them as well.

Today is the THIRD time we are trying out our "home-made" solar cookers which NRZ painstakingly constructed with assorted materials like shoeboxes, aluminium foil, black paint etc. Our aim is to try to cook a cracked egg using the solar cooker by just leaving the apparatus in the sun and using the principles of light and heat such as heat conduction, absorption, green house effect, reflection etc to enable the cooking of the egg.

As I am typing this, we have been "baking" in the sun for 40 minutes already, but the situation does not look promising. :(

Sadly, the sunlight is not strong due to an overcast sky with several gray clouds and we are not heartened by last night's evening weather forecast that thunderstorms are expected over the next few days.

So I expect the experiment is probably not going to succeed again..

But strangely, we are enjoying the process and I think this experience is probably going to be something that will stay in our minds for some time. :)

Learning his 听写 for tomorrow while waiting for the egg to cook