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Rudra Solar Energy

Solar Cookers

Solar Box Cooker

Slow, safe, smoke-free family cooking.

Trusted by organisations across India

  • SELCO Foundation
  • Jujurana Farmer Producer Company
  • Gajam India
  • Gujarat Eco
  • Green Hill Eco (GHE)
  • Citizen Foundation Ladakh
  • Sangma Solar
  • Arunachal Farmers Producer
  • SELCO Foundation
  • Jujurana Farmer Producer Company
  • Gajam India
  • Gujarat Eco
  • Green Hill Eco (GHE)
  • Citizen Foundation Ladakh
  • Sangma Solar
  • Arunachal Farmers Producer
Solar Box Cooker
2–4 family meals 100% solar Food-grade build

An insulated box cooker that traps solar heat to cook rice, dal, vegetables and bakes — safely and without supervision — for a typical family.

No fuel, no smoke, no electricity
Safe, stable and simple to operate
Durable outdoor-grade construction
Rapid payback through fuel savings

Applications

Households and farms
Schools, hostels and institutional kitchens
Temples, ashrams and community kitchens
Remote and off-grid locations

Specifications

Cooking capacity2–4 family meals
ConstructionPowder-coated steel, reflective aluminium, insulated body
FuelNone — 100% solar
Quick answer

The Solar Box Cooker from Rudra Solar Energy cooks meals using only solar heat, with no fuel, smoke or electricity.

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FAQ

Solar Box Cooker — questions answered

The Solar Box Cooker is part of our Solar Cookers range and runs purely on solar heat — no fuel bills. You may also compare the Parabolic Solar Cooker and Community Solar Cooker.

It is rated at 2–4 family meals. Need a different size? We build custom and hybrid versions — request a quote.

Because it uses free sunlight, the Solar Box Cooker typically pays for itself in 1–3 years. Ask for an indicative price when you request a quote.

Yes — we install and support nationwide, with hybrid backup for cloudy spells. See the locations we serve.

Browse our success stories for field results, or view the Solar Cookers range and the wider full product range. You may also compare the Parabolic Solar Cooker and Community Solar Cooker.

Tell us your capacity and location and our engineers confirm the specification and price within one working day — request a quote.

Ready when you are

Interested in the Solar Box Cooker?

Tell us your crop, target capacity and location. Our engineers respond within one working day with a recommendation and indicative pricing.

What our clients say

4.9 / 5

Rated 4.9/5 by 120+ farmers, FPOs & food processors across India

Verified client reviews
  • We dry turmeric and chilli for 400 member farmers now without ever watching the sky. The tunnel dryer paid for itself in one season, and the colour we retain has lifted our market price.

    Rameshbhai Patel Director, Shree Khedut FPO · Gujarat
  • Hygienic, dust-free drying changed how buyers see our spice lots. Rejections dropped and we finally hit export-grade moisture levels consistently, batch after batch.

    Anita Deshmukh Spice Exporter · Nashik, Maharashtra
  • The community solar cooker feeds 200 children every afternoon at our hostel. Zero gas bills, and the meal is ready on time — rain or shine.

    Sister Mary Joseph Warden, St. Anne’s Institution · Karnataka
  • Rudra sized a 50 kg dryer exactly to our mango-pulp volumes. Their engineers commissioned it on site and trained our women’s group themselves — nothing was left to guesswork.

    Lakshmi Reddy Self-Help Group Lead · Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh
  • In Ladakh the cold and the altitude defeat most equipment. Their dryer kept working right through the season and our apricots now grade as premium.

    Tashi Norbu Citizen Foundation · Ladakh
  • The solar baking oven cut our bakery’s fuel cost dramatically. The even-bake quality genuinely surprised us — a better crust than the LPG oven it replaced.

    Imran Sheikh Bakery Owner · Hyderabad, Telangana
  • We deployed Rudra dryers across six SHG clusters. Their after-sales support is genuinely responsive — a call gets answered, not ignored.

    Priya Nair Programme Manager, Rural Livelihoods · Kerala
  • Clean drinking water from their solar still has been a quiet game-changer for our remote field station. Low maintenance and no running cost at all.

    Dr. Sanjay Verma Field Researcher · Rajasthan
  • Honest sizing advice. They told us a smaller unit would do the job rather than overselling — that earned our trust, and our repeat orders.

    Mahesh Gowda Food Processing Unit · Mysuru, Karnataka
  • From enquiry to installation in under three weeks. The 25 kg dryer runs daily for our amla and ginger-candy line without a hitch.

    Sunita Bhosale Women’s Producer Group · Satara, Maharashtra
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