We had a clear sunny day today so I decided to foil wrap a smaller 3.5 inch long potato from my harvest, popped it into my 3 qt. granite ware roast pot, stuck that in an oven bag (twist tied shut) and placed all of this into my homemade solar cooker. I placed the cooker out at 1 PM and brought it in and took out the potato at 5 PM.
This gave the potato 4 hours roasting at between 190F and 210F. I took out the potato, cut it in half and mashed it up. It turned out firm but thoroughly cooked. I think any less time it would have been under-cooked, and 1 or 2 more hours at around 200F would have softened it even further. I consider a 4 hour acceptable result for a medium sized potato to be quite good from a simple cardboard & aluminum foil solar cooker and I am quite happy.
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We had a clear sunny day today so I decided to foil wrap a smaller 3.5 inch long potato from my harvest, popped it into my 3 qt. granite ware roast pot, stuck that in an oven bag (twist tied shut) and placed all of this into my homemade solar cooker. I placed the cooker out at 1 PM and brought it in and took out the potato at 5 PM. 
This gave the potato 4 hours roasting at between 190F and 210F. I took out the potato, cut it in half and mashed it up. It turned out firm but thoroughly cooked. I think any less time it would have been under-cooked, and 1 or 2 more hours at around 200F would have softened it even further. I consider a 4 hour acceptable result for a medium sized potato to be quite good from a simple cardboard & aluminum foil solar cooker and I am quite happy.
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