I Bought The GoSsun Sport and here is my Review.

[Deactivated] on 22/09/2018 - 09:19
Last edited 22/09/2018 - 09:23

I bought the GoSun Sport Solar Oven https://www.gosun.co/products/gosun-sport and it arrived 3 days ago. I have cooked 2 meals in it so far. Pepper Beef, and Sausages and onions.

The cooking tray is a unique shape and I am looking for some simple recipes ideas for food that can fit in it. A little bit of liquid is ok, but I am unlikely to cook spaghetti sauce in it. It took about 1 1/2 hrs for the sausages and 2 1/2 hrs for the pepper beef which was cut into 1cm thick strips. The steak was incredibly soft, like sous vide steak. The onions came out soft and sauted, the sausages came out cooked and juicy with undamaged skins.

The general quality of the oven is exactly as it looks on the site. The glass vacuum oven is solid and strong, the flaps fold out and flexible but firm, the legs are a bit stiff to move, and we needed two people to confidently set this up without fear of dropping or breaking it, but it lives setup in the window we use for cooking with it now.

The cooking tray is easily cleaned after use, and there is an attachment brush that fits onto the end of the cooking tray to help clean out the inside of the glass oven tube. It holds enough food for two people.

I bought the preparation pack and am underwhelmed. The oven is great, but I can't get the torch to work and the power pack is yet to get enough charge to do a full refill of my device. The oven is too fiddly to turn to the boil water position all the time, but would be useful if I had a second on setup just for that purpose.

I get full sun for approx 6 hours a day through my kitchen window which made this a practical device for me. You need a sunny aspect if you want to use this at home and not just camping.

All round I am extremely happy with the oven, underwhelmed by the torch and charger and would like to buy a second oven to boil water or cook a second dish.

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Comments

  • Melb69 on 22/09/2018 - 10:27

    For the time it takes to cook things it doesn't sound worth it for the money. I can cook a sausage in a minutes with a bit of gas. I would hesitate to guess it will soon be put in the laundry never to be used again after a month of your use. Maybe good for camping or outing, but you can set up a small gas BBq in 10min and be eating within 15min. IMO

    • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2018 - 10:36

      I just wanted to let people know it works, for me it is great, I always wanted to capitalise on the sun the blazes through my kitchen window. Its more like a crock pot when it comes to cooking your food, slow, but everything is tender.

      • Melb69 on 22/09/2018 - 10:48
        +2

        Appreciate its serves your purpose. Just seems overly priced for the practicality. Can you update this in 3months time to see if you are still using it and happy with it. 3 days of use isn't very long. Didn't even know it existed, so interesting to know.

    • Magpye on 22/09/2018 - 19:45
      +1

      If Time To Cook was the only metric, then of course, it is not comparable to a BBQ.
      But this product is quite obviously not aimed at that market, and doesn't intend to compete with organic fuel cookers for speed.

      However, if you were to look at overall ROI for cooking every day over 5-10 years, I suspect this product would be very cost effective.
      It's also able to be used in areas where no naked flames can be used, and from the sounds of it, is a set-and-forget cooker, meaning you can go do something else whilst it cooks with much less risk of it burning/drying out food.

      Other pluses:
      * There's potentially less chance of getting cancer than from BBQ food
      * Fits better with some ideologies
      * Is a one time cost
      * Can be left unattended without fire risk
      * Can be used during daytime and nighttime
      * Fuel tank is expected to last for the next 2.5 billion years

      I would hesitate to guess that the three month report will be that they have reduced their power bill, and whilst less convenient, they have got really good at planning their meals, and when needed to, have used the normal cooker for meals that can't be done in the solar cooker.

  • hawkeye on 22/09/2018 - 11:41

    Does it double up as a solar death ray that could come in handy at parks until the afternoon.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtzRAjW6KO0

  • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2018 - 12:26
    +4

    $350?!?!?!??

    • JimmyF on 24/09/2018 - 21:39

      some people have more money than sense!

  • Magpye on 22/09/2018 - 19:49

    Thanks for the feedback, it's always nice to get real life feedback than trying to wade through marketing bumpf.
    I saw this on Kickstarter/Indegogo some time back, and thought it was a great idea, albeit, one that has been done before.
    Out of curiousity, how big a meal can you cook in this ? Would it cook enough for 2 people ? And how fragile is the vacuum tube ?

    Thanks !

    • [Deactivated] on 23/09/2018 - 13:33
      +1

      The sport version cooks enough for two. The glass vacuum tube is quite robust and they sell replacement tubes. I have also been following this since the kickstarter.

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