ABSTRACT

Cooking through solar energy has become a popular option in the whole world and also has an abundant additional potential for fuel-wood in food preparation, especially in much of the developing world. The rural, urban, and semi-urban population depends mainly on noncommercial fuels to meet their energy needs. Cooking through solar energy is a promising response; however, its acceptance has been limited moderately due to a few issues. The device, that is, solar cooker cannot cook the meal in late evening hours. This particular problem can be resolved by an additional storage unit, which can be linked within the solar cooker and will also provide additional heating support to the device so that food can be cooked at late evening hours. The authors have summarized in this chapter the investigation on solar cooking through phase change materials.