Oven Help!!!???

[Grateful_Camper]

New to having an oven in the camper. Our new Vibe 285BHS - came with an almost full size (15") oven. Tried to make cinnamon roles - total fail - burned on bottom, raw on top. Made cookies the next night, wen with a much lower temp and top shelf - a little better.

Is there a trick to getting heat more evenly distributed? What are some doing to help with this. Keep in mind, I'm coming from a pop up, and used a dutch oven on every trip for these items. I really like the ease of the oven, but not so much the final product. Any advice.

[2012Coleman]

Dutchmansport brought up a good piece of advice - set the oven to a specific temp and put an oven thermometer in there. After a while, compare the temp on the thermometer to the temp you set the oven at, and adjust accordingly. I have done this, and now my wife knows where to set the oven for the actual temp desired. We bake several things like brownies and pizza successfully - and yes, we use a pizza stone. It is stored under the bed wrapped in towels while traveling.

[opnspaces]

place the tile/stone/pan above the burner and below the food. You are trying to distribute the heat coming up off the burner so it doesn't create hot spots on the bottom of the baking dish.

[westend]

I use two cookie sheets, one just above the burners and another, bent to accommodate the small width of the oven, for cooking. The top sheet will cook a cylinder of Pillsbury biscuits, exactly.

[Dutch_12078]

We put our pizza stone, when we had one, on the "baking floor" above the burner. Now we have an AirBake cookie sheet there.

[Halmfamily]

4x4van wrote:
I've wanted to try the tile/pizza stone idea for a while now. Question: Where does it go? On the absolute bottom/floor of the oven (under the burner)? Or on the "baking floor" above the burner?

We set ours on the floor of the oven.

[4x4van]

I've wanted to try the tile/pizza stone idea for a while now. Question: Where does it go? On the absolute bottom/floor of the oven (under the burner)? Or on the "baking floor" above the burner?

[korbe]

We use a 16" Dia pizza stone when we bake our wild berry pies. We store it in the bottom of the entertainment center (on carpet at bottom within cabinet).

[wa8yxm]

Many of us, myself included, put a Pizza Stone or an unglazed clay tile in the bottom of the oven, Right on the "Floor" in fact.

This seems to even things out a bit.. Also you might try the "Air bake" pans

Generally however, since Electricity is included.. I use a large toaster oven type thing by Armoa (Rotisserie Oven).

[donn0128]

Kittykath wrote:
My ceramic tile exploded the first time I used it. I took the advice of lowering the temp 25 degrees. Seemed to help but still bakes unevenly. If the pan fits and doesn't touch the element, I place the pan on the bottom of the oven to brown the top, kind of like broiling. Have to watch it closely though.

Yes. Ceramic floor tiles will do that. NEVER EVER use Creamic tiles. Use instead UNglazed floor tiles. We have had a Pampered Chef pizza stone in our ovens for probably 15 years with zero problems of breakage. But if it does ever break it will get replaced with a cheap UNglazed floor tile the same week. We use our oven a lot and using a large heat sinc is the key to great cooking.

[Kittykath]

My ceramic tile exploded the first time I used it. I took the advice of lowering the temp 25 degrees. Seemed to help but still bakes unevenly. If the pan fits and doesn't touch the element, I place the pan on the bottom of the oven to brown the top, kind of like broiling. Have to watch it closely though.

[Nutinelse2do]

Unglazed 14x 14 ceramic tile from HD does the same as a pizza stone, but under a dollar, and mine never broke in 14k miles with a rear kitchen 5'r.

[CarnationSailor]

We used a pizza stone from Target and it broke into 3 pieces the first time we used it. We are going to try some of the other suggestions mentioned unless someone can recommend a brand/model that can stand the heat.

[Dutch_12078]

We used a pizza stone for a few months, but when it broke into pieces, we replaced it with an aluminum air bake cookie sheet that works just as well for spreading the heat more evenly. They don't cost much and they don't break...

[Tal_IL]

I think the pizza stones/tiles are helpful, though we don't use them and bake frequently with great success. We have found that it is essential to thoroughly pre-heat before the food goes in.