When we purchased our 2008 Winnebago Aspect back in 2009, it came with a convectional microwave oven. I used it here and there; but I also feared it at the same time-never using a convection oven before.
Brian used the microwave often to warm up my coffee in the morning or warm up vegetable and leftovers. I tried my best to be creative with the convection oven and every time I did all turned out dried or burnt. I’m mainly used to gas and/or propane ovens. I feel you can regulated them much easier.
We knew when we purchased our motorhome, that we would be spending better than most of the year boondocking. therefore for us to use the microwave or the convection oven, we would have to power the generator.
At my last attempt to do a small turkey breast in the convection oven and it turning out dryer than the desert floor that we sit on now-I finally told Brian why keep something that is hardly going to be used and that if we got rid of that oven/microwave, we could utilized the space for more storage.
Coming upon a camper and a good friend that was in need of a new microwave for their motorhome-we sold them our nice little unit for them cheap.
Now comes a time when we could use an oven-but now not owning one-we had a dilemma-but only for a short time. We purchased a coleman folding oven. Now the question comes along: How well do they work?
Well, going on two years with it-it still does the job! Only thing we wish is that they made one for two burners instead of the one burner. It’s small and no, we can’t cook a turkey in it, but it does great for baking 1/2 of a cake mix, cutting pizza’s in half and baking, biscuits and for many other dishes that our 9x9 square pan fits nicely into.
Here is what our oven looks like on our stove
Brian putting in 1/2 of a pizza
Fits perfect-now to let it get up to temp.
may have to adjust the flame to not to burn the pizza
While we eat part of the pizza-we will cook the 2nd half…
mmmm good
There are several notches that you can move the grate on; we mainly use the middle one. But for cakes we use the top one-so not to burn the bottom of the cake.
What’s really nice about this camp oven is the fact that it folds down when we are completely done!
You say: What about the microwave? Phooey! Who needs one? If I can’t drink my coffee while it’s still hot-then I drink it cold. If we need something warmed up-put it in a pan and warm it the old fashion way! Oh there has been a few occasions where Brian says he misses the use of a microwave-but he soon gets over it!
We have thought about a solar oven for our kind of lifestyle-but for now we are very happy with our camper oven and will continue to use it until it needs replaced with another one.
Brian used the microwave often to warm up my coffee in the morning or warm up vegetable and leftovers. I tried my best to be creative with the convection oven and every time I did all turned out dried or burnt. I’m mainly used to gas and/or propane ovens. I feel you can regulated them much easier.
We knew when we purchased our motorhome, that we would be spending better than most of the year boondocking. therefore for us to use the microwave or the convection oven, we would have to power the generator.
At my last attempt to do a small turkey breast in the convection oven and it turning out dryer than the desert floor that we sit on now-I finally told Brian why keep something that is hardly going to be used and that if we got rid of that oven/microwave, we could utilized the space for more storage.
Coming upon a camper and a good friend that was in need of a new microwave for their motorhome-we sold them our nice little unit for them cheap.
Now comes a time when we could use an oven-but now not owning one-we had a dilemma-but only for a short time. We purchased a coleman folding oven. Now the question comes along: How well do they work?
Well, going on two years with it-it still does the job! Only thing we wish is that they made one for two burners instead of the one burner. It’s small and no, we can’t cook a turkey in it, but it does great for baking 1/2 of a cake mix, cutting pizza’s in half and baking, biscuits and for many other dishes that our 9x9 square pan fits nicely into.
Here is what our oven looks like on our stove
Brian putting in 1/2 of a pizza
Fits perfect-now to let it get up to temp.
may have to adjust the flame to not to burn the pizza
While we eat part of the pizza-we will cook the 2nd half…
mmmm goodThere are several notches that you can move the grate on; we mainly use the middle one. But for cakes we use the top one-so not to burn the bottom of the cake.
What’s really nice about this camp oven is the fact that it folds down when we are completely done!
You say: What about the microwave? Phooey! Who needs one? If I can’t drink my coffee while it’s still hot-then I drink it cold. If we need something warmed up-put it in a pan and warm it the old fashion way! Oh there has been a few occasions where Brian says he misses the use of a microwave-but he soon gets over it!
We have thought about a solar oven for our kind of lifestyle-but for now we are very happy with our camper oven and will continue to use it until it needs replaced with another one.
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