We know that if you take a parabolic dish with a shiny reflective surface it will focus the sun into a single point that is hot enough to catch paper, cardboard and even wood on fire.

Well I have taken this principle of focusing the sun ray's to heat the bottom of a pan to create what I call "The Solar Skillet."

Almost all materials are recycled and can be got for free. The only cost to the project was the spray on adhesive and the Mylar blanket (total approx.cost $8) if you use recycled chip bags cost of project about $6.

Once built you will be able to fry up pretty much anything, as long as there is ample sun light.

Step 1: Gather Materials

What you will need:

1) Old satellite dish

2) Mylar Emergency Blanket or recycled clean chip bags (Mylar)

3) Spray on adhesive

4) 3 old tent poles

5) String or rope

6) metal pan or cake tin

7) Black spray paint

Step 2: Preparing the Satellite Dish

Now we are going to glue a Mylar emergency blanket to the satellite dish.

1) remove any extra parts from the dish. leaving only the dish itself.

2) clean the satellite dish removing any dirt

3) spray on spray adhesive directly onto the dish

4) apply Mylar blanket to the dish making sure you put it on tight and as smooth as you can.

5) trim off any excess Mylar that is hanging off the edge of the dish.

Step 3: Preparing the Metal Pan

1) make sure you metal pan is clean on the bottom then spray paint the bottom with black high heat tolerant spray paint. The type of paint used on car engine parts or BBQ's.

2) drill 1/8 - 3/16 holes in each of the four corners or if you use a round pan 4 holes evenly space around.

3) string rope through each of the holes approx 16" in length and tying the knot in one end of the rope.