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invmartyc
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Sep 25, 2014

RV Ovens, hate them, love them, or just meh?

At the risk of starting a battle here I have to ask what do people think of ovens in RVs?

I have read that they are notoriously hot on the bottom and cooking is not "even". Is that why they seem to have been taken over by convection ovens?

Or is it that they seldom get used and people look at them as unnecessary weight?

I am an old tent camper and have never owned an RV so I have no experience with there ovens. We are planning to get our RV next year and travel the country. My lady says that she has to have an oven and one that works like at home.

I would sure hate to have to leave her home while I travel. Can anyone let me know how I can solve this oven issue?
  • I put a Pampered Chef rectangular pizza stone in mine and it works adequately now. It isn't really big enough to bake much more than a few biscuits, etc.

    We didn't even have an oven in our previous travel trailer. It was a small, low $ tt and just didn't come with one. I did all my baking in dutch ovens outside. Since we got the new travel trailer in May, I do use the oven in the morning to bake a few biscuits but that is it. Everything else still goes in the dutch ovens outside.

    I have looked at upgrading our microwave to a unit with a convection oven, but the cost is just more than I want to spend at the moment. When we go full time, I'll probably do it though.
  • We use ours occasionally. I made canned biscuits the last trip and the bottom of every biscuit was burned. We had to cut the bottoms off. But the top of the biscuit was just right. But I'll continue to use it occasionally. It does the job for heating a ham or a casserole.
  • We have always used ours, heat distribution depends on each oven, the one we have now is a little uneven, last trailer worked as good as home unit. I have to get on my knees to light it, but my wife can just bend over while holding the gas knob and light it with the propane match and see what she is doing.
  • It really takes two people and a blowtorch to get the pilot lite submissive completed and turn on the main gas. Mine is so safe it will never get above room temperature. If any one figures out how to get down on the floor, looking under the burner, hold a lit butane match lite under the pilot, while holding in the gas burner knob in best position without looking, seeing the 1/8 inch pilot come on and turning the oven gas on,,,,easily I would like a full description of their technique. Best part of this is I do not have to use oven cleaner.

    pops
  • Are they exactly like a home oven, no.
    Are they the quality of a Wolf or Viking, no.

    But, they will bake up a great batch of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls on a cold rainy morning.
    We like ours and use it.
  • The heat in an rv oven is notoriously uneven. We have placed a thick 'Green Egg' pizza stone in ours and with a preheat the stone spreads the heat very well and now the oven works like a home oven.