I have been lurking your blog for some time now and thoroughly enjoy it. I am hoping to fulltime in the next few years or as soon as we can handle it financially. My DH and I enjoy weekends and some extended trips in our 29' Prowler as often as we can. One thing I have found difficult is baking in our gas oven. Have you been successful at it? Have you tried biscuits or breads in the oven?
Enjoy the pictures of the hummers, especially the ones landing in your hands. Amazing!! Keep em coming. ................ Cheryl Catoe
Linda said
09:19 PM Aug 16, 2006
Hi Cheryl,
I have had great luck with my oven cooking. I don't know if I am just blessed with a good oven or what. I have learned one thing though...you have to let it preheat. These crazy RVs don't have a preheat feature like the ovens in your homes. What I do is to listen. When I hear the gas go off, I know that the oven is preheated. This may take several minutes so don't get in a hurry.
I make biscuits and breads all the time and all turn out fine.
Maybe there are others that some insight on this.
Glad you liked the pictures of the hummers. I would love to have those kinds of picture moments everyday!!!!
Darrell and Judy said
06:17 AM Aug 17, 2006
Don't mean to barge in on you girls, but I enjoy cooking fancy meals in our RV. I found that putting a stone from Pampered Chef on the bottom of the oven helps even out the heat and eliminate burning on the bottom while the top goes uncooked. Also have a convection oven that Judy enjoys using.
Darrell
Linda said
06:37 AM Aug 17, 2006
You just had to get in with the girls didn't you?
Well now that you are here, you might as well stay for awhile. I am so mad, I sold all my Pampered Chef stones.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Luvglass said
08:28 AM Aug 17, 2006
We also put a pizza stone in and it does help even the temperature.
ken and cindy said
08:28 AM Aug 17, 2006
Well I'll butt in too, you can use an unglazed floor tile from a home depot or any building supply place, and it does the same as pampered chef.
dreamjosie said
08:50 AM Aug 17, 2006
Interesting that husband, Fred, posted to this topic with exactly the opposite of what I think. Yes, we do have a stone in the oven, and it may help the temperature. That said, I don't use the LP oven if I have the amps to use the convection. I can't ever seem to get the temperature accurately where I want it. Every time I have used the LP oven, I put an oven thermometer in it to check the temperature before I put the food in. No matter how I try to adjust it to get it right, I have little success. I don't mind that for things like casseroles or meat roasting. But for me, it's too erratic to bake things like cakes, breasd, rolls or such that are so sensitive to time and temperature for proper rising, etc. The convection is so much more dependable, I absolutely love it. We would have had a plain microwave anyway, so getting it as a convection/microwave didn't add anything spatially. Definitely an option I would not want to do without.
Cheryl said
11:43 AM Aug 17, 2006
I have had the same problem with uneven temps. Also when I bake anything that needs to be browned on top I have a problem. It may just be because I only have the little gas oven that came with our Prowler?
Auburn War Eagle said
06:47 PM Aug 17, 2006
Hi Linda,
Had to put in my two-cents worth of info. I had lots of trouble with our rv oven, then I read in Trailer Life magazine to put unglazed 4" by 6" ceramic tiles in the bottom. Our oven took 6. I also use the better heavy duty cookie sheets and baking pans. That has helped alot. I still set a timer and rotate all the stuff I bake. I have found that the back of my oven gets the hottest,so by turning the pan (but do it carefully so cakes don't fall) it helps keep things from burning.
Hope that helps. I went to Home Depot and got the stones.
Ann
debken said
10:27 AM Aug 18, 2006
I can tell you guys I've had Linda's banana bread and her oven works just fine.
Linda said
03:16 PM Aug 18, 2006
Hi Deb,
Thanks for the compliment!
flyone said
11:33 AM Aug 22, 2006
War Eagle, do you put the stones all the way on the bottom or on that intermeditate shelf just above the flame? Do they stay in place while on the road, or do you have to take them out and store them somewhere?
leelare said
01:46 AM Aug 24, 2006
flyone
I see no one has posted yet so thought I would give you my 2 cents worth in case you are waiting to bake something! I am one of the lucky ones who still had one Pampered Chef baking stone left after my big yard sale! So, after reading the recommendations of using it or an unglazed tile I decided to give it a try. I baked a caked today at 350 degrees for 35 minutes & it came out browned perfectly top & bottom. I put the stone on the rack right above the flame, NOT all the way on the bottom. It would be under the flame then, & I think the purpose is to try & disperse the heat a bit more evenly.
I actually researched on the web a bit to see if anyone else recommended this because I ran out of time waiting for a post to your question & needed to bake my cake this morning! The key seems to be to keep the stone (or tile) small enough that there is still some air circulation around it. One recommendation was a 12 x 12 inch tile. Mine was a bit longer (more rectangular) than that, but it worked great. I will be removing it from the oven when we move on Monday. Don't want it flying all around! Hope this helps...
P.S. You can find the Jello cake recipe in the recipe link.
Lee Ann
cincygirl20 said
01:29 PM Aug 24, 2006
Has anyone had any success yet in cooking at Thanksgiving turkey in your RV oven yet? When hubby and I go looking at RV's I look inside the ovens and think there is no way! LOL!
Luvglass said
04:38 PM Aug 24, 2006
Hi,
The stone goes on the shelf just over the burners. The stone can be as large as will fit, we use a 16" diameter pizza stone and it really evens out the temperature.
We also keep it in all the time and have never had a a problem with it on a move. And we've had some cabinets dump, so it's pretty secure in there.
Fred
Luvglass said
04:47 PM Aug 24, 2006
We've done a 5.5 pound chicken and it came out great.
The bigger problem, will be finding a turkey small enough for just the 2 of us. I wonder where you find a 7-8 pound turkey?
Fred
susie/jack said
07:47 AM Aug 31, 2006
I once took my Ronco rotisserie and cooked a 10 pound turkey with all the trimmings on the end of the picnic table. Fed twelve people. It worked out really great - everyone in the campground got a kick out of seeing that bird go round and round. Mine is not real heavy and doesn't take up too much space. In an rv you could also keep it in the basement until you were ready to use it. You could also use it to cook chicken - shiskabobs -steaks or hamburgers. Thus making it something you would use more often. It is one of the luxury items I will be taking with me in my fifth wheel.
Jenny
PS Fred, you can find a 7-8 pound turkey at Wal mart!! That's where i bought mine.
DJ Wannabees said
08:55 AM Aug 31, 2006
Jenny J, you mentioned putting the rotisserie in the storage area. That is great, I read about crock pot cooking on another forum and they were talking about putting the crock pot in the closet floor, etc. I wondered why you couldn't use the basement for the big kitchen stuff since the cabinets inside were not plentiful. Does anyone use the basement for kitchen things?
BTW you can buy a 7lb turkey at Kroger also. My son-in-law (a chef) cooks our turkey on the grill and it is delicious. He soaks it in brine water in a thermos 5 gal. water container. Then puts it on the grill. I try not to watch too closely because having him do it is just fine with me! Sounds like it would work perfect for rving. But....I get my son-in-law! He is Director of food services for 5 hospitals and says it is safe if you keep checking the thermometer. So, if it won't go in the oven and you don't have a rotisserie, maybe the grill would be a good place. Yum.
Dianne (the D of DJ)
dreamjosie said
07:13 AM Sep 1, 2006
We are fortunate to have enough storage in our kitchen for what we need, but I know many do not. The problem with putting stuff in the 'basement' is that for me anyway, if I have to go out there and dig around, or move stuff to get at it, I'm not going to use it. However, if it's an appliance you don't use often, but just have to have for occasional times, or cooking something special, there's no reason you can't put it in the basement.
While I'm posting in this topic, I might as well say that all this talk about the RV oven doing a great job made me go back and revisit it. I made one of my famous apple pies the other day in the regular oven. Mostly I did it because the total cooking time was 45 to 55 minutes, (plus preheat time) and I did not want to listen to the convection exhaust fan that long. The pie came out great. Then a couple of days later, I made chocolate chip cookies in it, and they came out great too. So thanks everyone for talking up the LP oven. I have a new respect for it
Oops, forgot to mention, one of the downsides of the LP oven was that it took 30 minutes to get up to temperature (450); requires early upfront planning.
-- Edited by dreamjosie at 11:38, 2006-09-03
Frank - Dawn said
09:54 AM Oct 13, 2016
I understand this thread is quite old but hoping you can help me. I had problems with baked goods scorching along the line of my gas oven burner. The bottom was scorching before the middle was cooked through. I purchased a rectangular stone from Pampered Chef that covered the entire shelf. It split apart on the first use directly over the burner. Yesterday I used half a stone and it seems to be okay. Should I replace the broken stone or continue to use the broken half? Did I cover too much of the oven by using such a large stone?
-- Edited by Frank - Dawn on Thursday 13th of October 2016 09:55:08 AM
Someday said
01:45 PM Oct 13, 2016
Another thing to consider when cooking cakes, sponges etc is the altitude you are at when you are baking these type of items.
When we lived in the UK 1960s to 1990, my baking came out beautifully and rose perfect, when we moved to Alberta I had to relearn recipes based on "high altitude" cooking. My Yorkshire Puddings were a disaster for a couple of years until I found the recipes for "high altitude" cooking. Even today when we go to our Fla home my baking comes out beautifully still compared to in Alberta so that combined with your RV oven issues using stones will have an affect = Just saying FWIW.
Being homebodies and not often eating out, we cook in our RV propane Oven all the time regular baked goods and full roast dinners including the joints of meat. Have to admit I'm getting keen to get that Instant Pot that everyone was raving about a couple of months and so backlong. Just because we love boon docking not sure how energy efficient it might be :)
fun2travel said
10:00 PM Oct 13, 2016
Our stone broke also. I left both halves in. It works great!
jimindenver said
11:29 PM Nov 22, 2016
I want to get a stone before I leave but that said we have always enjoyed the oven in the trailer. The big tip I do is to over pre heat it and then turn it down to temp when the food goes in. This way the oven doesn't have to have a big burn reheating after opening the door. I do a fair amount of baking in solar ovens but nothing is better than slow roasting a rack of ribs or a pork butt in the trailers oven on a cold day. It smells great and keeps the trailer toasty without listening to the blower.
Hi Linda,
I have been lurking your blog for some time now and thoroughly enjoy it. I am hoping to fulltime in the next few years or as soon as we can handle it financially. My DH and I enjoy weekends and some extended trips in our 29' Prowler as often as we can. One thing I have found difficult is baking in our gas oven. Have you been successful at it? Have you tried biscuits or breads in the oven?
Enjoy the pictures of the hummers, especially the ones landing in your hands. Amazing!! Keep em coming. ................ Cheryl Catoe
Hi Cheryl,
I have had great luck with my oven cooking. I don't know if I am just blessed with a good oven or what. I have learned one thing though...you have to let it preheat. These crazy RVs don't have a preheat feature like the ovens in your homes. What I do is to listen. When I hear the gas go off, I know that the oven is preheated. This may take several minutes so don't get in a hurry.
I make biscuits and breads all the time and all turn out fine.
Maybe there are others that some insight on this.
Glad you liked the pictures of the hummers. I would love to have those kinds of picture moments everyday!!!!
Don't mean to barge in on you girls, but I enjoy cooking fancy meals in our RV. I found that putting a stone from Pampered Chef on the bottom of the oven helps even out the heat and eliminate burning on the bottom while the top goes uncooked. Also have a convection oven that Judy enjoys using.
Darrell
You just had to get in with the girls didn't you?
Well now that you are here, you might as well stay for awhile. I am so mad, I sold all my Pampered Chef stones.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Well I'll butt in too, you can use an unglazed floor tile from a home depot or any building supply place, and it does the same as pampered chef.
Hi Linda,
Had to put in my two-cents worth of info. I had lots of trouble with our rv oven, then I read in Trailer Life magazine to put unglazed 4" by 6" ceramic tiles in the bottom. Our oven took 6. I also use the better heavy duty cookie sheets and baking pans. That has helped alot. I still set a timer and rotate all the stuff I bake. I have found that the back of my oven gets the hottest,so by turning the pan (but do it carefully so cakes don't fall) it helps keep things from burning.
Hope that helps. I went to Home Depot and got the stones.
Ann
Hi Deb,
Thanks for the compliment!
flyone
I see no one has posted yet so thought I would give you my 2 cents worth in case you are waiting to bake something! I am one of the lucky ones who still had one Pampered Chef baking stone left after my big yard sale! So, after reading the recommendations of using it or an unglazed tile I decided to give it a try. I baked a caked today at 350 degrees for 35 minutes & it came out browned perfectly top & bottom. I put the stone on the rack right above the flame, NOT all the way on the bottom. It would be under the flame then, & I think the purpose is to try & disperse the heat a bit more evenly.
I actually researched on the web a bit to see if anyone else recommended this because I ran out of time waiting for a post to your question & needed to bake my cake this morning! The key seems to be to keep the stone (or tile) small enough that there is still some air circulation around it. One recommendation was a 12 x 12 inch tile. Mine was a bit longer (more rectangular) than that, but it worked great. I will be removing it from the oven when we move on Monday. Don't want it flying all around! Hope this helps...
P.S. You can find the Jello cake recipe in the recipe link.
Lee Ann
Has anyone had any success yet in cooking at Thanksgiving turkey in your RV oven yet? When hubby and I go looking at RV's I look inside the ovens and think there is no way! LOL!
I once took my Ronco rotisserie and cooked a 10 pound turkey with all the trimmings on the end of the picnic table. Fed twelve people. It worked out really great - everyone in the campground got a kick out of seeing that bird go round and round. Mine is not real heavy and doesn't take up too much space. In an rv you could also keep it in the basement until you were ready to use it. You could also use it to cook chicken - shiskabobs -steaks or hamburgers. Thus making it something you would use more often. It is one of the luxury items I will be taking with me in my fifth wheel.
Jenny
PS Fred, you can find a 7-8 pound turkey at Wal mart!! That's where i bought mine.
Jenny J, you mentioned putting the rotisserie in the storage area. That is great, I read about crock pot cooking on another forum and they were talking about putting the crock pot in the closet floor, etc. I wondered why you couldn't use the basement for the big kitchen stuff since the cabinets inside were not plentiful. Does anyone use the basement for kitchen things?
BTW you can buy a 7lb turkey at Kroger also. My son-in-law (a chef) cooks our turkey on the grill and it is delicious. He soaks it in brine water in a thermos 5 gal. water container. Then puts it on the grill. I try not to watch too closely because having him do it is just fine with me! Sounds like it would work perfect for rving. But....I get my son-in-law! He is Director of food services for 5 hospitals and says it is safe if you keep checking the thermometer. So, if it won't go in the oven and you don't have a rotisserie, maybe the grill would be a good place. Yum.
Dianne (the D of DJ)
While I'm posting in this topic, I might as well say that all this talk about the RV oven doing a great job made me go back and revisit it. I made one of my famous apple pies the other day in the regular oven. Mostly I did it because the total cooking time was 45 to 55 minutes, (plus preheat time) and I did not want to listen to the convection exhaust fan that long. The pie came out great. Then a couple of days later, I made chocolate chip cookies in it, and they came out great too. So thanks everyone for talking up the LP oven. I have a new respect for it
Oops, forgot to mention, one of the downsides of the LP oven was that it took 30 minutes to get up to temperature (450); requires early upfront planning.
-- Edited by dreamjosie at 11:38, 2006-09-03
I understand this thread is quite old but hoping you can help me. I had problems with baked goods scorching along the line of my gas oven burner. The bottom was scorching before the middle was cooked through. I purchased a rectangular stone from Pampered Chef that covered the entire shelf. It split apart on the first use directly over the burner. Yesterday I used half a stone and it seems to be okay. Should I replace the broken stone or continue to use the broken half? Did I cover too much of the oven by using such a large stone?
-- Edited by Frank - Dawn on Thursday 13th of October 2016 09:55:08 AM
When we lived in the UK 1960s to 1990, my baking came out beautifully and rose perfect, when we moved to Alberta I had to relearn recipes based on "high altitude" cooking. My Yorkshire Puddings were a disaster for a couple of years until I found the recipes for "high altitude" cooking. Even today when we go to our Fla home my baking comes out beautifully still compared to in Alberta so that combined with your RV oven issues using stones will have an affect = Just saying FWIW.
Being homebodies and not often eating out, we cook in our RV propane Oven all the time regular baked goods and full roast dinners including the joints of meat. Have to admit I'm getting keen to get that Instant Pot that everyone was raving about a couple of months and so backlong. Just because we love boon docking not sure how energy efficient it might be :)
Our stone broke also. I left both halves in. It works great!