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I am new to rving full time and find the oven so darn hot buring your baking,i made muffins and burned the bottoms.What is the rule of thumb for cooking in Rv ovens,thank you in advance
An RV oven does take some getting use to. It also helps if you use a pizza stone under your pan to get a much more even cooking. We bought a round pizza stone and place it under whatever pan we are baking in. It make things bake more even and some RV ovens run hotter than others.
Our RV oven is about 25 degrees higher than the dial reads. Each one is going to be a little different. So instead of 375 degrees we turn it to 350 and it works to our satisfaction.
Be sure to buy a good oven thermometer so you will know just how far off yours is on temperature.
There is an adjustment to bring the oven close to the correct temperature. I've never bothered to reset ours once we discovered the 25 degree difference. Look in the installation manual/owners manual to see if it shows how to adjust the oven. This website has a lot of manuals posted http://bryantrv.com/sitemap.html or try the oven manufacturers website if you didn't get a manual.
Shouldn't be much difference between cooking in the RV oven and a home oven.
It sounds like yours is set too high.
A lot of RV'ers use a countertop convection oven instead of the propane oven. I've seen several posting on RV sites where the RV'er removed the oven and convert the space to storage space. Between crockpots, BBQ Grills, toaster ovens and microwaves, many RV'ers & homeowners now days have little need for an oven or even a stove.
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Rebecca, We found that the problem was the burner right down the middle--with that set up the heat did not disperse very well, things tended to get burned. I was out at Lowes and found some un-glazed 6 inch square floor tiles--got four of them put them in the oven on the shelf right above the burner but below the baking shelf. Now they heat up and bake things much more evenly. Also we set the timer for exactly 1/2 of the baking time take out what ever is baking and rotate it swapping ends and setting the timer at 1/2 again. Doing these two things really helped we can bake anything now and it really comes out great. Try it I think it will help. BTW we just leave the tiles in the oven all of the time even while on the road--never had a problem of them breaking or anything.
Flyone
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One of the things that I had to learn was how to know when the oven was preheated. Residential ovens beep at you when they are preheated and RV ovens don't. Boy the things we take for granted.
I learned to listen to the oven (no not for a beep) but when the gas sound goes almost goes away. That is the burner cutting back because the oven is heated. So once I don't hear the gas sound I put my dish in.
I'm ashamed to admit this, but after having a travel trailer for 5 years and thinking the oven was completely useless because it burned EVERYTHING.......I recently discovered that I did not have the rack in the right place. Eureka! Now it works ok. 'm going to put some tiles in there, too, and I think it will be fine. A side note, when we are on the road, I move the rack back to the bottom position, and use it as a wine rack!
