the first test - frying an egg

First up on my list of food experiments to test was to see if my solar oven could fry an egg. Here is what happened..
I put the egg in the oven at 11am. The sun was shining brightly up in the sky and a rough hot wind was blowing.
10 mins in - Condensation forming on plastic from heat absorbing.

15 mins in - Wind had pushed the reflector down. This could continue to be a problem.

25 mins in - I have added another support for the reflector. Hopefully this will help keep it upright. The sun feels really hot on my back, surely it can cook this egg?!

45 mins in - Lid knocked down again so have tried to increase stability of the supports with tape. Hopefully it works as the oven seems to have lost heat. I have repositioned the oven to find more sun.

1 hour in - I don't think the egg has cooked AT ALL. However the supports seem to be holding now which is good. I moved the oven again to get more sun. Hoping the next hour is more successful!

1 1/2 hours in - The egg looks like it might be starting to cook ever so slightly (i can see some solid white) but I'm not optimistic. I think the wind is cooling the oven down too much, it feels much colder now. I have repositioned the oven once again.

1 hour 45 mins in - I think I'm losing the sun from the backyard. I need to watch and see where it goes.. Not sure if this means I'll need to start cooking much earlier in future or if perhaps I should cook out the front of my house?

looks much shadier now

2 hours in - No further progress has been made. A tree in my garden is blocking a fair bit of sun currently. The oven feels much cooler. Hopefully the sun will emerge from behind the tree soon.

stupid trees start blocking the sun after 12pm

2 1/2 hours in - Still no further progress made and definitely not enough sun. I think I am writing this one off as a failure but I'll try again tomorrow.

3 hours in - Sun is mostly gone from the backyard and there is only a small patch out the front. The egg remains predominantly uncooked.

the final result

Tomorrow I will try and fry an egg again but I will start much earlier in the morning (assuming the weather permits) and hopefully get a better result!