using the oven while on the road

Wrap it up in foil and put it on your engine!
Yes, I have actually done this and it does work. I've cooked chicken and vegetable meals and more, double wrapped in foil and carefully placed on top of the intake manifold.
We arrived at our destination a few hours later and had a piping hot meal ready!

We did it a couple of times when we had the mh. I would not with the 5er. Im not in there to watch it.

I imagine there are some people who would do this and say they do it all the time and have not ever had a problem. I call those people lucky they still have a unit to pull. this falls into the wrong idea as leaving your fridge on and refueling your truck with the flame going in the back of the fridge. not a good idea, a recipe for disaster

As a kid, we did it all the time...obviously if it's real liquidy, might make a mess. If it's already set into a fairly solid mass...not much of an issue.

Not recommending for or against but it's certainly feasible.

Just FYI, it is a normally accepted practice to reheat a saved or leftover meal in the same way it was cooked. Cook in oven, reheat in oven, cook in crock pot same, it is not always convenient but it is very hart to reheat a casserole baked in an oven in a skillet.

My youngest daughter was a chef in a upper end restaurant and I am a published Cook, so my thoughts are from professional experience.

Wrap it around the exhaust pipe :)
I would have no problem in a motorhome, would not do it in a trailer.

Hi,

For dry camping there are 12 volt crock pots. Find a spot in the back seat of your tow vehicle and build a "frame" or "well" from 2x2 to keep the pot from shifting. Plug it into the vehicles cigarette lighter.

Alternately use a small inverter and a 120 volt crock pot.

I wouldn't in the oven because there is nothing to keep the contents from spilling out. With a crockpot, you can place it in the sink so it and the contents can't fall, flip, spill, etc.

With the oven and an aluminum pan, you have far more chance of the contents spilling out as it heats up.

I would set the casserole in the sink while you drive (to prevent accidental spilling) and let it defrost, then put it in the oven upon arrival.

Heat it in a skillet when you get there. much faster than waiting for the oven

RoyB wrote:
Where would you get your power from... Most Oven's I have seen would require 120VAC and that would be a pretty good load for a generator...

I guess this must be a propane oven???



Roy Ken

Most though not all hardsides come with a propane oven and yes it would work while rolling down the highway.

Having a casserole or anything else bouncing around while a flame is heating it though is probably a recipe for disaster ;)