Solar Teriaki Chicken

Ok, now for a real test of the cooker on a sunny February day. According to weather.com, the high will be 56F.

Recipe is simple: 4 chicken breasts in Soy Vey. They go in the cooker at 10:42 am. I preheated the pot in the oven for about ten minutes. The solar oven, that is.

The only drawback here is that the sunlight will be gone at about 4:30 or so. Cristy won't be home until 6:30 or 7, so I'll have to reheat the chicken before we eat.

Oh boy I am excited.

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It's 3:32 pm and I've taken the chicken out of the oven. Done to perfection and as boring-tasting as anything every cooked in a crock pot! Next time I'll follow an actual recipe instead of just pouring on marinade. I really thought that would work, though.

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After Cristy got home, she made some sauteed vegetables and rice and then we spent about 30 minutes waiting for the chicken to warm up in the oven (we don't have a microwave). I noted that if I hadn't cooked the chicken and we'd just put it under the broiler that we'd only have to wait 15 minutes. Three cheers for inefficiency!