- Ladies and gentlemen,
we're back at the beach for our beach edition
of You Can Do This.
And I was thinking, what is one of the biggest problems
when you want to cook at the beach?
And it came to me, that a lot of the beaches
you're not allowed to have open fire.
But if you wanna cook something, how ya gonna do that?
Well we're gonna make it happen
by building a sun oven with tinfoil
and a cardboard box.
I have a medium sized cardboard box.
18 by 18 by 16 caja mediana, medium box.
All I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this box,
and split it in half.
Haha, magic.
We're gonna use the power of the sun, and concentrate it,
using tinfoil, to make hot dogs.
Who doesn't want hot dogs at the beach?
This is gonna be very simple.
Listen, there are very complicated ways
to make sun ovens.
But, in not You Can Do This fashion,
we're not gonna do the complicated way.
We're gonna try to get straight to the point,
and build it out of half of a cardboard box.
So what do we need to do?
We need to take this box, and simply cover it in foil.
It doesn't have to be ultra perfect,
we're just looking to ground the foil.
This is probably part of the episode where we're gonna
jump around and do some cuts.
So they'll probably be a close up coming up
of just my hands, making it look like I'm doing this
in an incredible amount of speed, which I am.
I'm gonna fold this up, create a natural break.
I'm gonna fold this guy, back here,
and I'm gonna tape this part of the box.
Well, there's our first part.
I'm gonna take this, and I'm folding
this inner lip up inside here.
Now why am I doing that?
Because I have a bakers rack that I want to sit
right in the middle here,
and that's what I'm gonna use, right there.
It measures about the size of this box,
to cook the hot dogs.
Now a good sun oven can reach around 350 degrees.
This is a very DIY sun oven, so I don't know
if it's gonna reach 350 degrees,
but it'll reach heat.
Enough to make hot dogs.
There's the dull side of foil,
and there's a very shiny part of foil.
People think that the dull side versus the shiny side
is like heat conducts a certain way or something like that,
which is what people have told me.
But actually through a little research I've discovered
that it's just the way it comes off the line.
But I do have a theory in harnessing the sun,
that the reflective side is more mirror like,
which a lot of professional sun ovens
are made with mirrors.
That this will actually be
more conducive to reflecting light.
That's why I'm using all the kind
of the shiny part facing upward.
So there we go.
We have our sun oven, and this guy is gonna sit
on the two braces, but as you've noticed
during the building of this, there's a lot of width.
So what we're gonna do, is we're actually gonna
secure it in the sand.
So that's the size there.
If you have children, get them to do this for you.
They'll think it's a fun game.
You want the angle to be facing the sun,
because that's where we're gonna
get the reflection off of.
Can we go find a kid?
Like one of those beach things?
With a pail?
Want a little insight?
I brought cardboard boxes.
I brought a baking rack,
I brought tinfoil.
I didn't bring a shovel.
So now we're gonna take this guy,
and set it in our little hole,
aimed at the sun.
I'm actually using the pressure of the sand
to help hold the grate in place.
What you wanna do is start this
in the beginning of your trip,
it's gonna take a while for that heat to heat up.
It's not gonna be like a regular oven where you hit it,
and you've got flames happening right away.
Where your oven kicks on, the element kicks on,
the gas kicks on.
What we're doing is we're waiting on the sun.
Now some of you recognize this technique
right away, and those are probably the same
people who are burning ants with magnifying glasses.
I see you.
So we're gonna take these dogs,
and we're gonna put 'em on the oven.
Now you're not gonna hear a sizzle or a fry,
this is something you can't do burgers.
This is gonna be a longer cooking process
than a normal hot dog.
So sit it, let it rest,
and you'll see it when it's done.
We got two done, one gets ketchup the other gets mustard.
I like relish.
I know people hate relish.
And that, ladies and gentlemen,
is how you have a no fire hot dog cookout.
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Come on take a walk with me,
we're gonna use this beach to make our thing.
Tide's coming in, I've got a little bit of wet sand here.