I have a collapsible Coleman oven for baking things atop my Coleman liquid fuel stove (outdoors). I have used it on several occasions to bake frozen pizza. Works out pretty well. The secret is to open the pizza and unwrap it on a cutting board (or even the cardboard box), then slice off 4 edges so the circle becomes a square. Scrape off the toppings from the 4 sections (discard the dough) and re-distribute across the pizza, along with some thin sliced onion, bell-pepper, etc. Then FIRE UP that stove! I raise the grate to the top level inside, and put a little tin foil on the bottom to collect the inevitable droppings. But it actually works!!! And such a silly grin when out in the middle of nowhere! Takes a LOT of BTU's to cook the pizza...I think the Westy stove might be straining to get the job done, but I never have used one so I don't know. I know I get my Coleman stove so that things are literally red-hot. Rich San Diego --- On Wed, 2/23/11, Mark L. Hineline <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET> wrote: From: Mark L. Hineline <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET> Subject: Cornbread, brownies, etc. in a Westy To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 3:59 PM When I got home from my recent trip, I got clocked off about the idea of putting together a camp oven, like the Coleman stove oven, but right-sized for the Westy cooktop. It wouldn't be hard to do although it might be ugly. But then I thought it must make more sense to pre-bake things like this and take them well wrapped. Then heat them up. But ... you don't get the baking smell. Or quite the same sense of wow I can do everything in this vehicle except drive the speed limit. Since there are elaborate schemes for making coffee afoot, how about scones and the like? Eh? Mark and Peregrine fille |
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