24" apartment gas range in 5th wheel?

[travelrider73]

I have heard that people struggle to get good results from the standard RV ovens. Is that true? Can you get good results from a gas RV oven?

Has anyone retrofitted a 24" apartment gas range into their RV? If so, I'd like to hear about it - pics would be even better.

My wife uses the oven in our stick house all the time, not for baking, but for cooking things like prime rib, leg of lamb, roasting veggies, etc. With regard to convection, I can't imagine a convection microwave can make a beautiful rare prime rib... Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm struggling to believe it.


Our retrofit would be into a 5er, and not a park model with big sliding glass doors, so - not entirely sure we can get one through the door. Measuring tape time...

[Francesca_Knowl]

An interesting question! I guess just because RV stoves are typically less than twenty inches deep, that doesn't mean there isn't counterspace for the deeper twenty-four inch deep home-style ones.

Another advantage of switching out might be that home range top burners are usually more powerful than those on an RV stove.

[travelrider73]

Francesca Knowles wrote:
Question:
Besides being wider, aren't apartment-size ranges also deeper/taller than typical RV countertops?

Hmm. I certainly haven't noticed an RV kitchen being any "shorter" than a normal kitchen. In a stick home, normal kitchen height is precisely 36" to the top of the counter top. Base cabinet boxes are 24" deep before their doors are added and a standard counter top is 25 1/2" deep to the wall (If you have a back splash, that takes away from the usable surface depth of the counter top, but not the overall depth to the wall). (My family has been in the cabinet business for 40+ years).

I think I would have noticed if the cabinets were shorter, but maybe they weren't as deep.

Anyone with a tape measure want to tell us the depth and height of the kitchens in their RVs??? I'm specifically interested in the big four season 5ers. I suspect small weekend travel trailers may very well skimp on the kitchen cabinet sizes to save space and weight...

[Francesca_Knowl]

I'm a gas stove fanatic, too, so will follow this thread with interest.

Question:
Besides being wider, aren't apartment-size ranges also deeper/taller than typical RV countertops?