Thirty Summers

Jim La Joie’s experience with solar energy dates back to his childhood in Arizona. "The black asphalt was very hot under bare feet! But if you stood on the white line, or the yellow line, that was tolerable," explains the inventor as he recounts his learning experience.
Mr. Jim's first solar cooker was a box-type cooker, that he built himself from instructions he found in a gardening magazine. He soon went on to build many other cookers, including parabolic and panel types. Although humbly omitted in his interview, Mr. Jim has also won numerous awards for his solar cooker designs, was invited to teach in STEM programs, and was a cosponsor of the high desert solar cooker building competition 3 years in a row.
Watch as he shares how and why his world-famous All Season Solar Cooker was birthed.

Thirty Winters

Young solar-cooking enthusiast, Jim La Joie builds a 108-panel fresnel mirror to win a solar water boiling contest. It would flash boil one litre. As powerful as it was, it had no practical value to Jim, who has “always worked with the end user in mind. That person who NEEDS a solar cooker that is efficient, [and] reliable."

Thirty Years of SolCook!

SolCook has brought much support to a dedicated group of missionaries on the Southern tip of Africa, who share his vision of alleviating poverty and malnourishment on the continent. Fabian Muntean of the Fullness in Body Mission International, gives further light on the heart and history behind Jim La Joie's business.