Chicken in the pot, part deux

I want to try the Chicken in the Pot recipe again.

Why "chicken in the pot"? Why not "chicken in a pot"? Beats me.

So this time I'm following the recipe a little more closely. Through exhaustive Internet research, I have discovered that 16 ounces equals 2 cups. Since the recipe calls for 16 ounces of chicken broth, I'm going to to use two cups of chicken broth, rather than "whatever is left in the container," which didn't work out too good last time.

It's partly cloudy today and the wind isn't too bad, so I think this will work out. The sun's going to stick around past 4:30, too, unlike last time .

Here's what it looks like going in at 11:16 am:

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At 1pm, things aren't looking too good. The pot isn't as hot as it should be. It's just warm. I think it's the clouds. It's really clouded over. It's still warm outside. Why is the weather always against me?

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Ok, it's not just the weather that's against me. It's the packing tape that I used to affix the oven bags to the top of the solar oven. I went out to check on things to find the oven bag top flapping in the breeze, which isn't good.

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Now it's about 6pm. Turns out we're going out to dinner. Check on the stew one more time... not done. The chicken isn't done, the potatoes aren't done, nothing is done. Dammit! Now this will have to go into the crock pot again. This is very annoying to me in so many ways.

So to recap: Failure. Why? Probably a combination of the partly cloudy weather and the oven bags coming off the top. I would guess that's it's mostly the latter. If not, then that means that 4 hours of constant direct winter sun is better than 7 hours of (somewhat) intermittent spring sun. That doesn't sound right.

You know what? I'm going to jettison this stupid solar oven and replace it with one of these . This one takes up too much space anyway.