Pizza Box Oven Success

A few days ago I posted a picture of the pizza box oven my daughter and I made last weekend.  We weren't able to test it out last week due to the weather, but we had an excellent opportunity to do so yesterday.  We were going to make s'mores, but soon found out we had no marshmallows or graham crackers.  Chocolate by itself doesn't make for a good s'more.  So we searched the kitchen and with some help from my wife we decided on chocolate banana boats.  

Ready to place in the pizza box oven

We put all four banana boats in the pizza box oven, closed the inner lid, then set it up such that sunlight reflected off the aluminum coated outer lid into the box.  

Cooking!

Since this is not a regular oven, the air temperature only reaches 175 - 200 degrees, but warm enough to slowly cook some foods.  I left the bananas in the 'oven' for about 45 minutes.  The bananas were warm and the chocolate had melted to the point where it was gooey and ready to eat.  

A ready to eat banana boat!

They were delicious!  Great times had by all.  Science is always fun, but it's extra fun when food is involved!