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Focus on Solar Brother’s solar center
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Focus on Solar Brother’s solar center
Here’s a look back at the inauguration of the Solar Brother solar center in Carnoules, which will soon be hosting solar cooking workshops for individuals and professionals. The solar center is also a research and development center, a demonstration center and a showroom for all the products designed and sold by Solar Brother: solar ovens, solar dryers, solar heating, solar showers, solar chargers, solar lighters and firelighters. The inauguration of the center brought together the key players in Solar Brother’s development, and provided an opportunity to share a convivial moment of solar gastronomy.
Together to promote solar cooking
For the inauguration, the main players behind this wonderful technological, gastronomic and human adventure were present:
- Carnoules Town Hall
- CCI du Var
- President of Enerplan and organizer of ConSolFood 2025 in Marseille, of which we are a partner
- Institutional shareholders
- Individual shareholders
- Members of SolarBrother’s strategic steering committee
- The Solar Brother team
- Our team of Solar Chefs: Nadia Sammut, starred chef at Auberge la Feinière, Franck Niedda, chef at une table au soleil, Lucas Mersh, elected best young baker in France in 2023, Sophie and Rémi.
Solar gastronomy
Participants enjoyed an original menu based on local produce, prepared and cooked on site using solar energy and the know-how of our solar chefs:
- Crackers with seeds (sunflower, flax, sesame, poppy, chia)
- Humus
- Eggplant caviar
- Savoury cakes (gluten-free)
- Black olives, basil, feta cheese
- Green olives, tomato confit, zucchini
- Mediterranean chicken (preserved lemons, onions, thyme) with basil almond cream
- Grilled tofu vegetarian dish: kidney beans, celery stalks, green peppers, carrots, tomatoes, onions, garlic, grilled tofu and chillies.
- Apricot clafoutis
- Babas with ruhm
The dishes were cooked using large-capacity solar ovens: the SunGood XL and the SunChef which can prepare dishes for 6 to 8 people, and the SunChef Prothe solar oven specially designed for professionals, for dishes for up to 50 people. The OMY solar dryer solar dryer was also used to prepare crackers. You can also find this latest solar recipe and dozens of others on the Solar Brother website website by clicking here.
Solar cooking for everyone with our workshops
Solar Brother has been approved as an ESUS (Entreprise Solidaire d’Utilité Sociale) by the French government for the past two years, as it shares its Open Source innovation projects free of charge on its website (to find out more, click here). But the main vocation of the solar center will be training: chefs will come to train other chefs as well as the general public. Solar Brother will also be offering solar oven self-build and solar cooking initiation workshops from autumn 2024. You can now pre-register for self-build workshops by clicking here and for solar cooking workshops by clicking here.
