Solar Oven Cookie Fail

After the Noachian flood that happened on Saturday, the sky on Sunday was probably the bluest I have ever seen it in Beijing. So what do you do when you have blue skies, you bake some cookies in your solar oven that you have yet to test and have no idea how to use. After a mad dash back and forth to the grocery store, because I kept forgetting ingredients for our peanut butter cookies, we finally got dough mixed and out in the oven by 4pm, which we discovered is not enough time particularly on a cloudy day to cook the cookies (if you look at the picture carefully you can see the clouds in the glass). Apparently, our oven is not able to get to 374 degrees kelvin in two hours. Thus, our cookies ended up just being semi-warm dough. On the upside the dough was delicious, on the downside they weren't cookies. However, today is another sunny day and I put the cookies in the oven before I went to work this morning, so it should have a full day of sunlight as the rains on Saturday guaranteed clear skies for at least a week. I will give an update later on the success or failure of the second try. If all works out, we might upgrade to baking donkey ribs in the oven on the next try.