I just love this stove ! I'm in Brazil and over here we've got lots and lots of sun, almost every day ! It's a Pity that's so difficult to get one of those over here. Very good luck to you both !

Hello from Colorado! Good video, I like that you showcase a solution (a solar stove) which solves a deficiency (no stove in your current home) as you build your home. Very well done, and the brownies will likely entice everyone else who may not find the coolness of a solar stove to be interesting enough. Keep it up, thanks!

I am a subscriber to your channel and have really enjoyed watching your progress on your journey. I would love to see more of how you prepare your daily meals. Keep the videos coming!

Excellent. I was thinking of buying one of these units and this may have just convinced me to do so. I have two solar ovens (one home-made and the other is an ASSC) and I have a parabolic dish cooker. This would be a great way to round out the "fleet". Thanks for posting! Ken

Hi guys Just found your channel and am loving it! You're both so amiable and come across so well. Good luck with everything, I can't wait to see your progress... Simon

Glad to see a real person using one of those. I've been dying to find out how they work in real life. The brownies look great!

Been using GO SUN for about a year now and really love it. Also got a bigger one (4") so I can use Ball Jars to cook in...

The stove in this video: purelivingforlife.com/yt/n0jaPUdKJcU/1

Awesome! We want one, thank you for the vid.

looked real good!

Awesome video

thanks for shareing milling lumber

Great video Alyssa! Those look like they came out great. Next time, give parchment paper a try, it works beautifully. :-)

hey just wanted to say, the portable BBQ you have on the outside of your camper, it also can double as an oven, just line the shelf/grate with aluminum foil, and can use backing trays that are meant for toaster ovens. and they work great! just put a small cooking thermometer thru the side of the lid and adjust the flame for the temperature that you need. so if you want to bake and dont have solar, you can still make, pizza, cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, roasted meats and veggies, french fries, and basically anything else you would bake in a normal oven.

Ahh that made me hungry this morning. Nice video.

Wow that's an awsom oven, we tried our own version takes a bit of time but worth it. Its Feb 10 2016 our sunset is at almost 5:30 now :) Summer here is so wonderful it doesn't get dark until 10;30 or more on the longest days by the way lost of sun. Just wanted to say that we recently got a Coleman oven that I can bake with in inside on our wood stove, a little slow but works.

You can take the warming pan out of a regular oven and use the now empty area as a firebox and use the oven to bake in as normal. Which might be option on cloudy days. The brownies looked great!!!

That's a very cool (well, hot actually) oven! Those brownies look delicious too... I can almost smell them!

Just too dang cute , you get soooo happy. 😂 💜

LOL sunny means no rain....omg...story of my youth!!! born in Tacoma, WA!!!! best of luck with your sunoven =)

I always enjoy watching your videos. I would like to suggest the humble Dutch Oven-- you already use fire wood, and they're big enough to bake a pie, or cake. KZread is full of Dutch Oven cooking videos, I think you'd really like it.

wow what a great idea, I'm surprised more people don't use these.

have you worked with a dutch oven? you can bake almost anything in that with a heated base source/fire and some coals on top. Let's see, pies, buscuits, cookies, brownies, roasts, baked beans... growing up in the pnw, we did outdoor cooking on a regular basis. cast iron becomes your best friend. during super storm sandy here on the east coast, we were able to easily just keep on with our family meals without really missing a beat... and we just used our wood stove.

@KiwiCatherineJemma

7 жыл бұрын

Here in the Southern Hemisphere, we have cast iron cooking pots similar to what you folks call a "Dutch Oven", referred to as an (Australian) Camp Oven When I left Australia, I cleaned and (cooking)-oiled mine before packing it for the trip to NZ (although once here, I saw they were available here anyway).

Good job

Wow! Smokin Hot! The brownies looked nice too. LOL Good luck guys. Definitely subscribed

Thats cool!

Lovely

Very cool item. Have you guys heard of the aluminum can solar heater? Might help you guys out with heating Your cats are awesome.

good job

Browny SWORD!!!! XD

Very cool! Or hot I should say. Good to see another great video. Beginning to wonder if everything was going okay. Enjoy northern Idaho, it's a great place to be.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Steve We were pumping out the videos for a while but now that we have our basic needs met more or less, we're shifting focus to our online business as we've taken 6 months off from work, so there is a bit of clean up to do! I think some of our bigger projects are on hold until spring, but hopefully we can get some good work done on the nicer winter days, like milling the rest of our lumber and finishing our hot tub deck! Glad someone notices if we're missing... haha! We are definitely enjoying North Idaho and all that it has to offer, and we're really hoping for more snow!

@TheWatchit45

8 жыл бұрын

The brownies look scrumptious. What kind of a online business do you run?

I saw this in a clip of other videos from the future and it looked like you were loading a payload for a nuke into a bomb housing. the video had no references but I'm glad I saw the original, they look great.

I am excited to get the GoSun stove.. and try it during my camp out.. so excited...

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+reasonwhyelectricbi1 Yay! Let us know how it goes!!

That solar oven certainly has an odd shape for the cooking tray. Certainly limits what you can cook in there. There are other styles of solar ovens that are more cube shape and allow for cooking of larger items in conventional cookware. Those brownies did look good. I am partial to the Ghiradelli Chocolate brownie mix that is available at Costco.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+bwillan You're right that it has an odd shaped tray. It does limit what you can cook (like you couldn't cook a traditional pizza in it, you'd have to shape it differently). I'd be curious to know the pros and cons of this stove compared to other sun stoves. Maybe the odd-shaped tray helps it to cook quicker instead of having a large, square tray. I'd be interested in testing out others as well but maybe in summer! I'll have to try the Ghiradelli brownie mix if I get a chance. I actually like just making them 100% from scratch but sometimes it's nice to just do it the easy way, especially if I don't have all the ingredients on hand! In the end... when brownies are good, they're GOOOOOOOOOOd, and when they're bad, well they're still pretty good lol.

@bwillan

8 жыл бұрын

Pure Living for Life I agree. There is no such thing as bad brownies. Just varying degrees of good brownies.

@dustyblue2ify

8 жыл бұрын

+Pure Living for Life ow Ghiradelli brownie mix is my fav!! :) I am also a chocolate lover... tell your Mom to send you some Trader Joe's Coca Truffles next time they are delicious!! Happy New Years!!

It looks too small a tube to cook anything. I prefer the larger sun oven that you can put 2 ful bread pans in to cook bread or casseroles etc.

4:29 Potato ice cream? My favourite.

if you have put the decking down on your hot tub deck yet, please allow me to suggest laying it diagonal across the joists. this will add strength and help lower the risk of excess racking force...especially when that much weight on there that will come with a large hot tub.

@rcrpike

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Renard have not*

very convenient way of cooking and it saves gas too..

I am 55, have eaten a TON of cookie, cake and brownie batter and am... still alive and very happy to have experienced all that raw, gooey yumminess during my life. Go girl, enjoy life.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Debby Wells Life's too short to not enjoy delicious, chocolatey, gooey food on an extremely frequent basis!

ok, this is all 4 now...I dont know why more dont use these solar stoves but I see they are finally catching on, no reason why not!!

I addicted to chocolate too! ever since having my gall bladder removed I crave chocolate and salts more!

I have cooked my lunch in the dashboard of the work truck a lot of times, I'm sure it's not nearly as efficient as the gosun but same concept, great video

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Caleb Hobson Awesome, gotta work with what you have! I cooked an egg once on the asphalt in 3rd grade but I don't know that it was all that edible afterwards...

You are such a bushcraft babe!! Your hubby is one lucky dude.

Some soft rolls or Garlic toast... Try that sometime! Cool video!

A backpacker allows you to bake without an oven as well. It's just a metal grid that creates a platform for the "cake" to rest on above water to be boiled inside a pot. It's not the prettiest, which makes it perfect for camping, and cheap too. For a little bit of nothing it would be easy to fashion snaps into something similar - real DIY style.

Are you guys in Eastern WA or Idaho? Love your videos. Watching them with my wife is helping to slowly bring her along with the idea of going off grid.

very cool question are you guys on the Oregon side of Idaho or the Washington side you have a nice piece of land going bye your videos. I have watched all your videos I think your doing a great job

Next time you make Brownies or cake place the mix in a pastry bag then fill the tube, it will be faster. Greate job, stumbled upon your channel, and subscribed. Best wishes in all your endeavors!

I believe you could attach the handle to either side so you could and probably should switch sides halfway through the cooking/baking.....

awesome couple

cool vid ... coolthat you really use this gadget ... thought it is the "buy ...test once ... shrug ... put away" kind of thing

Amazing to see how okay you are with living simple until you can build your home. I love it. You are my kind of people. I really love seeing your progress.

It's amazing that such little surface area can cook a big brownie cookie.

Have you guys ever tried using a camp oven ? You can put it on top of your wood stove works great made by Coleman I think!

Days Of Sunshine demographics: I believe one can find a graph for their city or region for days with or with out sun, i.e cloudy days, partially cloudy days. Similarly, I remember Minnesota people talking about the word nice, which has a different meaning than I thought.

Nice job! Martha Stewart style.

nice and she is so pretty...

@jhnshep

7 жыл бұрын

daniel ospina there's something endearing that she talks out of the corner her mouth, don't know why,

awesome, would love to have a play with one of these. can I suggest buying a silicone cooking mat/sheet. cut it to size to suit the gosun, then you won't have to keep buying foil, stop creating waste and most importantly you'll lose less of the brownie due to non stick properties. can get silicone sheets very cheap these days ($2).

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Roslyn Maree Great suggestion, this is something we thought would be great to do as well!

"Don't eat raw egg..." Now THAT was funny. As I am sure you are well aware, the same people that would actually say that are the same people that would strongly encourage you to eat the store bought cookie with 11 out of 13 ingredients they cannot pronounce. I am still laughing. Thank you for that.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+lost in the tundra There is so misinformation about our food and health, it's ridiculous!! Don't tell anyone, but I went through a phase where I made smoothies with raw egg in them and didn't die. Imagine that?? Glad you like our humor!

Get you a Dutch oven to cook in

@ann3brown

7 жыл бұрын

I was gonna suggest that too☺ they are great

Dang, I noticed the thumpnail and thought I saw a fire arm:)

Nom noms

Looks awesome, how do you clean the inside of the oven though?

Awesome, "Don't eat it raw!" Lol.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

You're not my mom, you can't tell me what to do!

@vaquero3578

8 жыл бұрын

+Pure Living for Life I believe he was quoting you not trying to tell you what to do :)

@christopherstube9473

7 жыл бұрын

Vaquero 357 I think she was quoting a social meme that i have seen plastered on posters and stuff, notable a kitten telling that to a woman who was trying gain compliance.

interesting sun stove however it seems limiting with it being in a tube ....or am I wrong? looking forward to more cooking videos

A brownie saber: an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

These vacuum insulated tubes have a very strong potential to explode due to sudden temperature changes. I had one. It would boil water with no reflectors. It would bake and cook also unaided. One day I cooked turkey and all was well.... I removed the cap from the tube to let the pans of turkey cool before removing them and a few minutes later kaboom! Instant Turkey infused with solar tube. They explode and can cause injury. So I would not recommend using vacuum insulated tubes for cooking and encourage very cautious use or no use of these tubes in general.

that generator is clean enough to eat off

My father milled his own lumber from oak and cyprus to build 2 houses. The lumber he used was 'green' and he discovered the hard and expensive way, when fresh cut lumber is not dried properly by air stacking it warps. He discovered lumber used before it was dried properly results in walls, floors and doorways that are not exactly straight because it tends to warp in lengthy locations. Like you, he started with building a barn, but learned the hard way to wait on his green lumber to dry before using it to build as finishing lumber. To build your home from lumber harvested from your land, you might be wise to talk to a local saw mill or local contractor who builds custom log cabins to learn more about using freshly cut lumber from local trees. Some trees produce more desirable lumber than others. Also, you might investigate the American Made SUN OVEN is an awesome solar stove that allows you to cook full size birds, roast, pots of food and even 2 doz. eggs at a time without water.

Everytime I see the thumbnail, I think, "That's a weird way to hold a shotgun." Then I realize it's a brownie tray. Not quite as fun as a shotgun, but far more delicious!

You might want to look at making your own tandoor. These can be made very cheaply, using flowerpots and an insulating material vermiculite. A dutch oven might better, as you can bake on top of the indoor fire.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+David Kalnins Thanks for the suggestions! A dutch oven is on our shopping list and our experimental cooking will not stop with the GoSun Stove!

Potatoes, carrots, meat loaf?, hot dogs, boiled eggs( in water bath), quesadillas (pre made) burritos ? first come to mind for easier cooking in your solar cylinder because of shape and ease to mold to the cylinder.

Mmm if you could make a big vanilla cake hot dog style bun in that oven, then just drop that brownie right in the bun with some icing ,Ok I'm getting hungry :( Great video, Take care.

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

Mmm yum, my mind was wandering about the possibilities as well!

You guys are badass just sayin....

the largest profit margins is apparently this companys goal, you can purchase these same kind of vaccume tube solar cookers over seas for 1/4 of the price. To bad they dont sell for a modest profit margine, it would be much more popular here is the states and greatly impact the enviorment positivly, shame profit seems to be the bigest drive for this company

haha your funny, the cat's waiting for the brownies 2

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

You know it! We try to feed the kids a healthy diet yet they still crave junk food. Typical :)

@24blunt

8 жыл бұрын

thats all that KATNIP it gives them the MUNCHIES

I like the fact that ya'll don't try to rig everything but take a common sense approach. PS .. A good Cast Iron Dutch oven is never a bad investment for a few bucks.

Maybe use parchment paper to lose less delicious brownie. 😊

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Julie Hiltbrunner (Silversmyth) I will try that!

@TRUMPLocalWallBuildersUnion

8 жыл бұрын

+Pure Living for Life hey guys I just found your channel , ive watched quite a few videos already .... and I'm addicted now lol . ive been dreaming of doing exactly what you guys are doing for a long time and I think its great to watch you guys go thru the process its teaching me a lot. oh and your cats are awesome too hahaha. be safe and keep thee great vids coming.... thanks so much for sharing :)

@kaydabee

8 жыл бұрын

+Julie Hiltbrunner (Silversmyth) Parchment would work but someone had the idea of fitting a silicone baking sheet. I cut it in 2 strips that overlap ~2 inches and go up the ends, too. It's hot pink and looks odd to cook in but works great! It even mostly holds juices from chicken or fish.

That stove seem very odd for an off grids situation, wouldn't the standard big square style be better for them? That way they are not limited to what can be cooked. I believe it works but does it work for their situation.

I see lots of long skinny food in your summer future! lol

sorry for three comments....just a last thought, wonder if you could roast coffee beans in that oven?

She's the Alaska version of Martha Steward

You're adorable.

I really hope you're going to have a pizza oven somewhere?

So can you make other stuff in that oven, or are you limited to what you can put in the tube?

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Esposito We are limited to what fits in the tube... but there are ways to be creative. I just got a cookbook for sun oven recipes which I'm STOKED to try out if it ever gets sunny again!

hey! just saw an ad for this oven and your image was on it! Does that mean you got it for free or that they paid you for this post?

What is the point of sun cooking when you are using a gas cooker?

This is where you add the cannabis butter!!!

Maybe a water wheel for electricity

#Cool but when there's no sun...

after watching that, I feel like I'm 8 years old at the ice cream truck with no money🍦🍪

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+William Scott Hahaha! That reminds me of something I read... one of the best lies to tell a child is that when the ice cream truck is playing music, that means they're out of ice cream :-)

@williamscott9882

8 жыл бұрын

+Pure Living for Life thats ok, I know where I can some brownies...LOL Merry Christmas yall!

@williamscott9882

8 жыл бұрын

+William Scott get

So, minus any perks you may have gotten from GoSun and/or its sponsors, is the GoSun Sport worth it's price of $280?

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" oh you woman and chocolate " - cinemasins

honestly the batter wouldn't have made it to the oven if that was me. :)

Hi, do you know of any land for sale in your neighbourhood? I'd like to invest in a parcel near there.

Nice but pricey I have to admit. We need an affordable home devised alternative for solar cooking. I'll think of something. The energy is free and that's a good thing.

@MsSomeonenew

8 жыл бұрын

+Walter Palmer Well that thing is more for camping and portability. If you want to do a static one at home an old mirror will do, cut it up into hand sized pieces and aim them at your cooking pot/box, viola solar oven.

@sweettooth5737

7 жыл бұрын

Walter Palmer Rand 4" solar tubes-- $58? On Amazon. 👍👍😊

no all we need to do is figure out how to squeez a tbone steak into that little sucker.

How much was your sun oven ?

@PrepFX

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Lori, I'm not sure how much Pure Living paid, but I got both of mine for about $350 because I bought the "Pro Pack" which comes with an extra cooking tray and a nice carrying bag. The base price is $279 and you can get a $25 discount if you buy through one of their Ambassadors. I'm an ambassador, but it wouldn't be proper for me to share my code on Pure Living's channel.

@lorisanford8515

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so I ch for your info, I wonder why they charge so much for it ? I'm sure they make it for a fraction of the cost ! I guess that's just a he name of the game you know what I mean :0)

@PrepFX

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Lori, You'r very welcome. Yeah, what you're really paying for is the innovation and all of the upfront costs for bringing this product to market. Anytime a new product comes to market, it's always more expensive in the beginning. Computers were the same way. I know they spent a lot researching and refining the designs, not to mention the costs of finding reliable manufacturers. One thing I appreciate about GoSun is that they've been quite transparent about the challenges they've faced making their products. They've had multiple manufacturers that they've had to replace because they were making poor quality parts. That means they need to spend more money and time finding a new manufacturer plus fronting the costs for the new manufacturer to begin stamping out whichever part they'll be making. Anywho, it's been lovely chatting with you. I hope you have a nice night. :-)

@lorisanford8515

7 жыл бұрын

Right...I didn't know that they were new that would make sense like you said everything is like that in the beginning. I'm a newbie to all of this stuff but I love learning about everything and I'm just starting g off slow with cheaper things right now...baby steps :0) thanks again for your I nformation

@PrepFX

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I could help. Welcome to solar cooking. It's a lot of fun. I'm surprised each time I cook a meal with the sun. You take for granted how powerful it truly is. If you don't mind a project, there are lots of tutorials on KZread where people make their own solar ovens inexpensively and they hold a lot of food. it's a great introduction to solar cooking. The GoSun is convenient, portable and cooks faster than your standard box shaped solar oven, but that doesn't mean the box ovens aren't still a ton of fun :-). All the best to you in 2017!

Rats....... I thought you were going to send some to all your viewer's Have a Jesus filled day Greg in Michigan

@purelivingforlife

8 жыл бұрын

+Greg Homestead Maybe we will! Just don't tell the FDA if we do that...