Date:         Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:29:53 -0800
Reply-To:     Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cornbread, brownies, etc. in a Westy
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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