What's in your van kitchen!

twomountainlions · Dec 15, 2024

I wouldn't mess with my RV propane systems.
Also would have to reinstall the oven back later, another PITA, it'd be imposdible to sell an RV with such modifications.
Plus where would one store such oven with limited space??
Can't buy organic pastries with all clean ingredients where I travel, so I got to bake.
The only bread that would I eat available is frozen Ezekiel bread but it doesn't taste fresh. Convict organic bread is also available but its too soft, not like real, healthy, hearty bread should be, so I call shenaningans

Camp Chef products are too expensive. May be sticking some insulation onto Coleman folding oven can work, like ceramic fiber flue insulation, but then its not safe for lungs.

vanbrat · Dec 15, 2024

eDJ_ said:
Presently I have a two burner propane cook top built on my kitchenette cabinet in my rig. I have a Coleman oven that folds up flat I could pack along if I wanted to do any baking. But the more I think about it........being on the road using the 2-2-2 travel method It may benefit me to just buy baked goods at discount bakeries and forego the baking all together.

I looked at a Camp Chef outdoor oven with two burner cook top once as the Magic Mart was getting ready to close and they had it marked down to $150.
If I owned an RV with a stove/oven combo I might consider pulling it out and setting in a Camp Chef. (which I could cook inside or outside with) as it is light in weight and portable. It may require modifying the area the stove is removed from but may also generate some more room for storage too.

But to each his own.....since we all have our own taste and preferences.

Camp Chef indoor/outdoor stove-oven

24 X 15 X 18 inches

That looks pretty good and if I did the gas stuff I would look into that.
I have learned to do some "baking: in my little air fryer thing but still need to practice a bit more. I tried to bake some muffins but forgot to watch them and they just got hard as bricks. I have baked a dutch baby and it was fine and I have done some biscuits they were ....Maybe ok.
I just need to practice more hint hint. As soon as the fecal matter quits colliding into the osculating blades......

twomountainlions · Dec 15, 2024

May be baking inside dutch oven, stuff placed upon elevated steaming rack inside it but itd take farely large dutch oven and baked stuff got to be small. If I burn propane for 40 mins it better be for good sized stuff. Haven't tried it, and dont have my dutch ovens anymore.

twomountainlions · Dec 15, 2024

Neat camp ovens can be made from metal bins with lids. The same bin can be used for food storage when not baking.
https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/backpacker-oven-zmaz80jazraw/
I thought about this route but good sized metal bins cost a lot on amazon now, and with buying stuff to make a rack plus thermometer it all will cost almost the same as folding Coleman oven which costs about $55.
I guess using one larger metal bin and then a smaller bin inside it (actual oven) sitting upon metal rack can create something like insulated oven but it will cost.

INTJohn · Wednesday at 1:28 PM

there ya go folx!
Along with the above is my 1 burner Coleman propane stove (which doubles as the furnace if I’m stupid enuff to be somewhere cold enuff to use it) & 30lb tank.
I use 20oz paper bowls which double as paper plates - the bowls start out as plates and are press crimped to form a bowl. Takes less than a minute to put it back into close enuff plate form.

Plastic utensils were my gig till I found the metal fork at a kamp site in Amistad National Park Texas. The metal knife & spoon were found under a picnic table I think at Salt Creek on the east side of Salton Sea. Been a while.

bowt it
bch bum jonny b eetin good

EDIT: have a Vitamix immersible blender, too.

vanbrat · Wednesday at 9:16 PM

INTJohn said:
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there ya go folx!
Along with the above is my 1 burner Coleman propane stove (which doubles as the furnace if I’m stupid enuff to be somewhere cold enuff to use it) & 30lb tank.
I use 20oz paper bowls which double as paper plates - the bowls start out as plates and are press crimped to form a bowl. Takes less than a minute to put it back into close enuff plate form.

Plastic utensils were my gig till I found the metal fork at a kamp site in Amistad National Park Texas. The metal knife & spoon were found under a picnic table I think at Salt Creek on the east side of Salton Sea. Been a while.

bowt it
bch bum jonny b eetin good

EDIT: have a Vitamix immersible blender, too.

I realize I go a bit nuts for my kitchen and am glad you have what works for you. All ya need is what ya got then that's all ya need.