Date:         Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:12:48 -0600
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cornbread, brownies, etc. in a Westy
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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---- Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> well, I could have gone with the old saw... "eschew obfuscation"
>
> ;)
>
> But back to the oven. I like the look of the unit Loren posted, it
> doesn't look like it packs flat though. Mind you, I suppose you could
> fill it with stuff during packing.
>

I like the look of that oven, also, and will be looking into it more deeply.   I use a dutch oven when I am at a campsite for an extended period and have the luxury of a camp fire.  I have also used my backpacking oven (coffee can) on the camper cook top.  But this looks like it might serve for more ambitious baking.  So far as packing, I would pack the interior with the things I'd be baking, biscuit mix and such, as well as the baking pans.  Some years back, I tried the Coleman oven, on a liquid fuel Coleman stove,and was not too happy with it.  It heated very unevenly, and usually was either too hot or too cool, so that stuff either burned (while centers were still uncooked), or took forever and never browned.  Maybe just my ineptness with it, but I could not get it to perform as it should.

mcneely