Our hypothesis stated that Tue insulation would keep the oven from catching fire while allowing heat in to cook the food. During the cook off, our success was limited due to the top of the oven we placed and less light was let in. However, light did get to the magnifying glasses and melt the chocolate and cook the marshmallow. Our temperature increased good, but not exponentially like we predicted. However, our hypothesis was correct because the insulation kept the oven from catching fire.
We had only one limitation during the cook off. This limitation was the amount of light we let in to the oven. We could have gotten the temperature higher if we had let more light in, especially with the magnification. If we let more light in, we could have cooked from all sides, but ran the risk of letting more light be wasted. Nevertheless, it could've been worth the risk in the end.
If we had unlimited resources then we could have made a better oven by using heat absorbent material to attract the sun towards the oven. Also we could have used metal to also absorb more heat to make the oven hotter. All of this would have been possible if we had unlimited supplies and resources.
