# Hey, what's for lunch? How about Solar Eggs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616 "2004-07-24T00:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/1 "2004-07-24T00:43:40Z")
I started a thread some time ago about what to do with my old Dish Network dish. After several ideas I decided on covering it with mirrors and building a solar cooker. So, today, I made solar scrambled eggs. [![](http://www.tictokmen.com/7/solaregg1.jpg) ](http://www.tictokmen.com/7/solaregg1.jpg) [![](http://www.tictokmen.com/7/solaregg2.jpg) ](http://www.tictokmen.com/7/solaregg2.jpg) It worked pretty good even without building a mount to hold a pan. I have to say, they tasted very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/2 "2004-07-24T02:02:05Z")
It sounds better if you say that today you made your scrambled eggs using a thermonuclear heat source. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/3 "2004-07-24T07:56:14Z")
I suppose. But everything I cook with that thing is solar toast, solar eggs, solar links, solar muffins, etc. ā€œthermonuclearā€ is so 80ā€™s. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/4 "2004-07-24T11:58:24Z")
OK, how about ā€œI used a fusion furnaceā€? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/5 "2004-07-24T15:52:15Z")
And here I thought thisā€™d be a reference to it being hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/6 "2004-07-24T16:11:09Z")
How long did it take to cook the egg? ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/7 "2004-07-24T17:29:23Z")
Very neat, **Seven**! Now Iā€™m hungry for some sunnyside up eggs. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/8 "2004-07-25T00:57:05Z")
Very cool. Could you rig it so that you could cook with Pyrex containers, suspended at the focal point with a wire tripod/frame or something? That big cast-iron pan looks like it would block a lot of the sunā€™s rays from the dish. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/9 "2004-07-25T01:01:12Z")
Very cool. Now if you could only use it as a weaponā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/10 "2004-07-25T01:07:47Z")
Heh heh. That takes me back to the summer of water-cooled ā€œsun-tokes.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-whats-for-lunch-how-about-solar-eggs/256616/11 "2004-07-25T20:57:33Z")
**Oat1957** : It took about 2.5-3 minutes to cook them. **The Scrivener** : I have a micophone gooseneck and a teracotta pot with a lid. I thought I could mount them on there somehow.