The choice of your solar cooker buy will depend on the type of food that you want to generally prepare. The effectiveness of cooking different types of meals varies with the same solar cooker used. Most solar cookers available today are capable of cooking a wide range of food but when you want something special to be served, you equipment too needs to be special.
The box solar cookers are efficient in baked dishes. Soups and vegetable preparations too can be cooked with satisfactory results with box cookers. The box cookers can reach a very high temperature limit and thus is ideally suited for baking items. Pies, cookies and cakes are the common delicacies prepared by a box solar cooker.
Solar panel cookers on the other hand are specialized for dealing with moist food content. Temperature in this cooker is maintained somewhere between 2000 F to 2500 F. This appliance is cheap and easiest to use among other solar varieties.
Parabolic solar cookers are used to reach a higher temperature than the other solar cooking appliances and are suited for grilling and frying. Time taken is less using this variant of solar cooker but it does charge a high price.