Ace!
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It looks slicker than snot. I can't shell out the clams right now, but wish I knew someone that did.
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campfido
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mtkbuckeye wrote:I saw this first last summer at a show for our company and fell in love with it. I think it would be great to have for emergency preparedness. At least you can tell your wife that is why you HAD to have it!!
I thought about that (use for emergency preparedness). But, being the wife, I only needed to say "I'd love to have this to bake brownies and biscuits in camp!"
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Spirit Deer
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campfido wrote:I've had the privilege of being on the receiving end of some mighty fine dutch oven cooking. It's something I'm interested in down the road but right now, it's just the two of us and we haven't really spent enough time around a camp fire to set one up. I also have a tough time with smoke (allergic) and I have to keep a distance from it (though I love campfires).
I use charcoal with our DOs. Very simple, very little smoke. As far as set up, it can be as simple as setting the pot on the ground in the fire pit and using charcoal in there. Plus DO cooking is so easy, and anything you can make in or on your stove at home can also be done in a DO.
Glad you like your new oven. Congrats on a fun new toy.
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mobeewan
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I have an older model that does not have the lid and wind screens. If it there is a strong breeze you can't use the top burnere to cook with. I have tried to get a retrofit kit or parts from the manufacturer to add the lid and wind screens, but they don't seem top interested in acomidating me, so I will have to make my own lid and wind screens. Otherwise it works great for baking. I use mine for biscuits, blue berry muffins and cakes. I have also cooked a pork loin in it and used it to warm up left over fried chicken and buffalo wings. I had a 12 foot hose made for it that I can hook into the outside low pressure gas quick disconnect so I can run it straight off the 2 - 20 pound tanks on the trailer tongue.
I also use dutch ovens, but the stove is handy when I am in a hurry in the mornings and don't have time to heat charcoal for cooking.
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red31
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Using 'regular' oven ware! How big a pizza will it bake? Charcoal ain't needed . The burner output sure is low.
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Mike Up
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Pop Ups should just get rid of their regular ranges and use these. Not much more money and then you have a full range/oven. The oven looks as big as the one in my TT and perhaps even bigger. For the price, it's a bargain if you cook a lot while camping. Not all do, when I was younger, my step mom hated cooking while camping and always brought cold cuts.
Have a good one.
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mobeewan
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red31 wrote:Using 'regular' oven ware! How big a pizza will it bake? Charcoal ain't needed . The burner output sure is low.
A very 9 x 12 baking sheet and 9 inch pie or cake pan will fit. I have also used a muffin pan for large muffins that makes 6 muffins at a time. The oven is about 10 inches deep.
If I make pizza I use 12 inch pizza dough's and used a 12 inch dutch oven. I placed a cake rack in the bottom and lowered it into the dutch oven on a piece of foil. I bought a 14 inch dutch that will fit pizza's better and will be used for other bigger items than the 12 can hold.
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campfido
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Mike Up wrote:Pop Ups should just get rid of their regular ranges and use these.
I can say I'm certainly not unhappy now about not having an oven in the popup after getting and using this one. I do like the idea of not heating up the trailer when I don't want it heated up. Also, we bring a weber grill along with us which of course is used outside and it will be convenient to have all the cooking in one place.
As many times as we've been in Sports Chalet, I've never seen this oven until tonight when we were in the store. They had one sitting on the shelf. But it was $199 while we got ours through Costco for $169.
btw, I probably enjoy camp cooking better than at-home-kitchen cooking. I enjoy the challenge in going boondocking.
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campfido
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Mike Up wrote: The oven looks as big as the one in my TT and perhaps even bigger.
I just measured the inside space and it is 10 3/4 inch from front to back and 16" side to side. There is 6 1/4" space from the lowest rack to the ceiling and 3 1/4" from the top rack to the ceiling (meaning I have enough space to remove the top rack and bake a loaf of bread or a couple of pound cakes.
Because it is meant for outside use, maybe there is less need for insulation (thinner walls?) which might mean a larger interior? Not sure though.
Made some great cornbread in it today. Terrific!
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Spirit Deer
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I'd sure have been unhappy if that oven/stove had come with our new pop up. It would have to be stored somewhere and dealt with every single time we set up or broke camp, and it looks heavy and big to be lifting all the time. I'd much rather have our stovetop that sits on a counter and never needs to be moved if we don't want to move it.
I can see where it would have its uses and to each his own, but I wouldn't like it for our only stove in the pop up.
I make lid pizza in our Dutch ovens. No racks or foil needed.
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