Cost Containment International president Hans Herrmann spent this past weekend up in Walworth County, Wisconsin, at the first annual EcoFair360. C2 was a primary sponsor of this three-day celebration of all things green, which brought more than 2,000 attendees together with hundreds of exhibitors and presenters. Cost Containment International had a booth in the sponsor tent, and Mr. Herrmann gave two separate presentations.

He also picked up a little something for dinner.

What you see here is (perhaps) the future of the one-pot meal. This is a SUN over, an oven which cooks exclusively using the energy from the sun. It’s an old concept, as anyone who has used a magnifying glass to start a fire knows. With the SUN oven, reflective panels focus and concentrate the sun’s rays into a central cooking chamber, where it can easily hit and maintain temperatures of 350° and higher. Look closely and you can see the dutch oven in the chamber.

Dinner in this case was chicken, and reports are that it was both well done…and done well.