RV Ovens

DutchmenSport wrote:
First, you need to some how celebrate the actual temperature inside the oven with what the dial is actually pointed on. Dial may say 350 degrees, but the true inside temperature may be 400. So.

Step 1: Do not depend on the dial numbers as being accurate. Use an oven thermometer and set the oven on different temperatures and mark or remember where on the dial those temperatures are.

Step 2: Use a lower temperature than what the "package" calls for. We bake about 25 degrees lower than the listed recommended temperature on the package. It bakes slower, but it doesn't burn the bottom.

Step 3: RV ovens are notorious for uneven heat. But my wife has 100% mastered ours and has baked some marvelous things... including cinnamon rolls and breakfast biscuits. The secret is to rotate the item inside the oven. If the biscuits call for 350 for 12 minutes, then at 6 minutes, turn the item 180 degrees and things will come out great.

Step 4: (which we do not do)... get a Pizza Stone and lay it on the bottom shelf. This distributes the heat more uniformly inside the oven. Or skip the stone and just do step 1, 2, 3 above.

We had Cinnamon Rolls just last Sunday ... UMMMM perfectly fixed! It can be done.

We were dry camping and I hadn't yet calibrated the oven. I know it's something I need to do. I'll remember to bake at a lower temp, too. Heat seemed to be fairly even across the bottom, as all were equally browned (or blackened), so turning really wouldn't have helped. With biscuits, at least you can =flip= them; not so easy with crescent rolls. :B

Lyle

First, you need to some how celebrate the actual temperature inside the oven with what the dial is actually pointed on. Dial may say 350 degrees, but the true inside temperature may be 400. So.

Step 1: Do not depend on the dial numbers as being accurate. Use an oven thermometer and set the oven on different temperatures and mark or remember where on the dial those temperatures are.

Step 2: Use a lower temperature than what the "package" calls for. We bake about 25 degrees lower than the listed recommended temperature on the package. It bakes slower, but it doesn't burn the bottom.

Step 3: RV ovens are notorious for uneven heat. But my wife has 100% mastered ours and has baked some marvelous things... including cinnamon rolls and breakfast biscuits. The secret is to rotate the item inside the oven. If the biscuits call for 350 for 12 minutes, then at 6 minutes, turn the item 180 degrees and things will come out great.

Step 4: (which we do not do)... get a Pizza Stone and lay it on the bottom shelf. This distributes the heat more uniformly inside the oven. Or skip the stone and just do step 1, 2, 3 above.

We had Cinnamon Rolls just last Sunday ... UMMMM perfectly fixed! It can be done.

The height of our oven is so narrow we can't hardly fit anything in there. Browning bread in such a narrow space is completely uneven.

We don't use ours much, but it's there for storage or when we don't have electricity. I would highly recommend the Breville countertop toaster/oven. We also have one in the house and for the two of us it serves almost all of our oven needs.

We use our oven for storage and our toaster oven for cooking.