On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Loren Busch wrote: > RE: Ovens > You can't have mine Jon, go get your own > http://www.foxhill.net/
We tried a Coleman oven. The ones at this URL look much sturdier than ours, which was one of those folding aluminium box type ovens. But it doesn't address our show-stopper. The oven simply doesn't fit over the burners on the Westy stove, because the raised lid limits the height available over a burner. It'll rest on there with it's front edge way too far forward. But it makes us go "erk!" for fear it'll fall off forward. And it won't heat the inside of the stove very well. And the oven didn't even fit over the burners on our outside grill, even though the lid on the outside grill rises to make a 90-degree angle with the burner. Same description of the short-coming. I did a Sierra Club camping trip, and our trip leader used one of these folding-box ovens to bake cake for all of us. But she used it over a tiny back-packers' burner, and was able to center her oven over the heat source. So ... Who uses a camp oven of any description? How does yours work in the context of van/westy/propane-grill camping?
And, another question, regarding toast. We have one of the Coleman toast racks. But our bread doesn't have any flat edge (a slice of our bread is an oval of varying dimensions) so that doesn't work so well. Anyone have an alternative idea for making toast?
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