no oven

[seniorshuffle15332]

I'm looking for a small TT. but none of them come with ovens, and i know i would  miss it .  Since i will be boondocking most of the time, and won't have electricity  , that means no toaster oven, etc,    Any suggestions.

 

[jimindenver]

Get a solar oven

 

[rvwandering]

I found that I really missed having an oven. While solar ovens work great when the conditions are right I like baking on cloudy cool days so I bought a vintage Ovenette on ebay. Apparently they were popular in the 30s to 50s when people had small cast iron table top stoves and no  oven.

 I've cooked meatloaf, baked chicken, enchiladas, stuffed mushrooms, baked potatoes, cakes, pizza, muffins, cookies and a number of other things. I haven't mastered bread baking which gets too brown on the bottom before it's cooked in the middle.

 Ovenette - http://nationalserroscotty.org/fun/ovenette.html

 A newer version is made by Omnia - https://theboatgalley.com/omnia-stove-top-baking-oven/

 Colman makes a folding oven - https://www.coleman.com/camp-oven/2000016462.html

 An added benefit is the heat generated keeps everyone toasty on cold days.

 

[jimindenver]

Those stove top ovens look great and I also use my trailers built in on cooler days. Maybe you should consider a old fashion adding a old fashion dutch oven to the list.

 

[WalkaboutTed]

I have an oven in my tt, but don't like heating up the whole trailer to cook. I have a Weber q100 propane grill. I've noticed that they are very popular with full-timers here in NM. It's meant to be used with the lid closed.  I just roasted a whole chicken three days ago, putting it in a pan so I wouldn't have to deal with cleaning the grates and drippings. I expected scorching on the bottom, but there was naught. I imagine that if you used a pizza stone, you could bake in it. But I haven't experimented widely yet. I've just had it a couple of weeks.
Ted

 

[johnny b]

Plenty of propane choices out there:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...8-9&sk=&cvid=BBC075BDB7424630A0DF1F919EB9608B

Some sit over a flame, others are self contained, and there are the cooktop/oven combos.

 

[DLTooley]

I've got a dutch oven. It doesn't see much use, save as the receptacle for the rest of my kitchen kit. Conveniently the lid also fits my cast iron skillet - which gets used twice a day.

 

[ratfink56]

Solar oven? Or a Camp Chef propane oven. Also made by Stansport and others.

 

[frater secessus]

Or a folding oven that goes on a stovetop.  I've seen them at garage sales for $10, but they are rarer these days.   

Jim has a great deal of expertise in solar ovens.  He's inspired me to get one but I haven't done it yet.  I've got a couple listed on camelcamelcamel waiting for a price drop...

 

[highdesertranger]

I had one of those Coleman ovens shown above for years. they might work ok indoors but outside with any wind/breeze and they are very hard to maintain a temp. I finally gave mine away. I now use a Camp Chef or a Dutch Oven. I can also attest to Jim's solar oven prowess. one day I will add one to my arsenal. he makes some great ribs and corned beef. highdesertranger

 

[seniorshuffle15332]

I had one of those Coleman ovens shown above for years.  they might work ok indoors but outside with any wind/breeze and they are very hard to maintain a temp.  I finally gave mine away.   I now use a Camp Chef or a Dutch Oven.  I can also attest to Jim's solar oven prowess.  one day I will add one to my arsenal.  he makes some great ribs and corned beef.  highdesertranger

.Thanks to everyone for your feedback.  I'm leaning toward the solar oven.  The camp chef you have to mess with the propane, dutch oven I would probably burn everything , I get side tracked to easily.  The solar oven seems the best  fit for me , easy to operate and I could cook everything.
Thanks again

 

[LoupGarou]

I use a Banks FryBake on a butaine stove all the time to bake corn bread and muffins.

I place a baking pan inside with quarters underneath to separate the baking pan from the FryBake’s bottom. Turning the FryBake into a stove top oven.

 

[wagoneer]

Dutch oven or if you can find a coleman folding get some thicker aluminum tape and tape all the folds it works way better

 

[makenmend]

1st saw solar ovens at the past two RTR's, after some research I found this   https://www.amazon.com/Large-Evacua...1526651002&sr=8-2&keywords=solar+vacuum+tubes.

able to reach 400 deg F with reflector and all these items can be made, or purchased on Ebay or Amazon, for approx $ 200.00.



Have cooked pretty much any thing I would do in a regular oven. The tube is sturdy but will need protection for travel, and of course  a sunny day. After getting to temp (30-45 mins) cook time is about normal oven time, lots for one and  enough for two.

 

[Dingfelder]

Solar oven? Or a Camp Chef propane oven. Also made by Stansport and others.

Bob recommends the Coleman oven in one of his videos, says it's 40 new on Amazon, if I recall correctly.

 

[Dingfelder]

1st saw solar ovens at the past two RTR's, after some research I found this   https://www.amazon.com/Large-Evacua...1526651002&sr=8-2&keywords=solar+vacuum+tubes.

able to reach 400 deg F with reflector and all these items can be made, or purchased on Ebay or Amazon, for approx $ 200.00.



Have cooked pretty much any thing I would do in a regular oven. The tube is sturdy but will need protection for travel, and of course  a sunny day. After getting to temp (30-45 mins) cook time is about normal oven time, lots for one and  enough for two.

makemend, wow that looks cool, thanks for the recommendation!  I had never even heard of those.  

I'd really like to try baking bread in one, as that's something the HotLogic I have will not do.

 

[wasanah2]

I ran into this exact problem in a pop up camper that I'm restoring.  I like to camp with an oven.  I have one in my 30 foot RV, and I want one in the pop up too.   So I searched and Craigslist in my area has a couple and there are some on ebay too.  I plan to buy one that someone is ripping out of their RV so that I can bake goodies.  I bake almost every day in my RV.  I bake treats and bread and roasts and everything you'd bake in an oven in your sticks and brix house.  I also live in Florida and have the worst humidity and heat, so I open things up.  If I'm running a fan (which you can do while boondocking with an O2 battery fan), you can pull a lot of air through.  The thing I like is that it dries the air in the RV so that it's not so humid and sticky at night.

Yes, it will temporarily make it warmer, so I generally do my baking later in the day or if it's a cooler night, at night, and it works out.  I would figure out a way to use a battery fan to keep the air circulating.  It makes a big difference.

I've tried the folding Coleman tin stoves you use on your propane camp stove and I wasn't happy with the results.  You have to turn the food often and also the bottom of your biscuits might get too brown or might not cook at all. 

Another thing I have used when tent camping about 20 years ago was a stand alone propane oven.  I haven't seen this particular type in years.  It was an oven only, not the Camp Chef oven with a cook top on top.  This was an oven only and I baked everything outside with the one lb propane tanks when I had it.  I wish I still did have it.  Not sure where it went.  When my husband died, a lot of our stuff disappeared.

 

[wasanah2]

Oh one more thing you could try....and this is old technology. You'll never burn the food. It's a fireless cooker. I own an antique one and plan to put it in my vintage pop up. It's also called a haybox cooker. I can put soapstone heaters (just heat soapstone on your propane stove outside) into the fireless cooker and the food and it cooks in there. The soapstone keeps the heat going. And it's insulated so it's never hot outside the box. Look up fireless cookers. I have a single well one that's small. It will go in the vintage pop up as well as an old RV stove. I can take the fireless cooker outside or leave it inside, and it can cook all day. I paid about 100 dollars for it about 5 years ago with soapstone heaters and aluminum cookware that went with it. That also included the shipping.

But the cool thing is, you can make your own for way cheaper. Just google Haybox cooker or Fireless cooker and you can see what they look like. There are some directions for making one online too. And you don't have to use soapstone. Some cookers use metal discs like barbell weights. You can use anything that holds heat and I have never burnt anything in mine and I've left mine all day before. So if you get distracted, no problem.

A fireless cooker cook book can be had for free. Just look for it at Google Books Advanced search and tick the FULL VERSION ONLY box and put in fireless cooker and there is a great cookbook for it.

 

[NagathaChristie]

you can bake potatoes in a slow cooker. wash the potatoes, rub a little oil on them, season, wrap in foil and let it bake on high till done (4 -6 hours)