Post by catinhat on Dec 5, 2011 14:56:01 GMT -5
My Hubby has now asked me 186,000 times, 'What do you want for Christmas?' I have this one thing I'm wondering about, so I wanted to ask if anyone has tried it and knows if it would work.
Coleman makes a camp oven that you can use to bake over a campfire. It's basically a collapsible box - double walled, I think - that has a thermometer on the front and vents to let out the moisture. So I'd have to watch the thermometer, and when the temp is right, you bake - much like baking in a wood cookstove, which I've done in the past.
I'm wondering if I could use this on top of our wood heating stove. (We don't have a wood cookstove.) I am not so much thinking of it as an emergency item (because in a true emergency I'm not really thinking of cornbread), but more as a way to save a little propane and have my daughter grow up in a world where there is more than one way to do things. Since there are only three of us, a wee oven like this would make enough of most things for us - a half dozen muffins, a small pan of biscuits or cornbread, a little cake, even a loaf of bread. I just hate to ask for something that might not work - it was made for use on a campfire, not a wood stove.
The oven measures 12x12x12, so it would fit OK, and the top of my wood stove gets hot enough to boil beans or soup. Has anyone used one for this sort of thing? What do you think, even if you haven't tried it yourself? This is supposed to vent moisture better than if I were to try and bake in a dutch oven or something...but that's another possibility. However, since I have a dutch oven, it would not solve the Christmas dilemma, hee hee.
Thanks in advance,
-Laura
Coleman makes a camp oven that you can use to bake over a campfire. It's basically a collapsible box - double walled, I think - that has a thermometer on the front and vents to let out the moisture. So I'd have to watch the thermometer, and when the temp is right, you bake - much like baking in a wood cookstove, which I've done in the past.
I'm wondering if I could use this on top of our wood heating stove. (We don't have a wood cookstove.) I am not so much thinking of it as an emergency item (because in a true emergency I'm not really thinking of cornbread), but more as a way to save a little propane and have my daughter grow up in a world where there is more than one way to do things. Since there are only three of us, a wee oven like this would make enough of most things for us - a half dozen muffins, a small pan of biscuits or cornbread, a little cake, even a loaf of bread. I just hate to ask for something that might not work - it was made for use on a campfire, not a wood stove.
The oven measures 12x12x12, so it would fit OK, and the top of my wood stove gets hot enough to boil beans or soup. Has anyone used one for this sort of thing? What do you think, even if you haven't tried it yourself? This is supposed to vent moisture better than if I were to try and bake in a dutch oven or something...but that's another possibility. However, since I have a dutch oven, it would not solve the Christmas dilemma, hee hee.
Thanks in advance,
-Laura
