Using the oven while moving...

Bonefish wrote:
You have some that worry about driving with the fridge on and fueling up! Hum! I know people with MH run the oven down the road. If it is summer just think how hot the camper would be.

Sharon

Motor home is a bit of a different "creature"..

With a Motor Home YOU are RIGHT THERE, only A FEW FEET away from the oven.. You can SMELL if the food is burning, you can SMELL if the food is cooking or not cooking (flame failure).. Not to mention you CAN get up and CHECK the food in the oven ANY TIME WITHOUT STOPPING!

A trailer or even a slide in camper, you simply can not smell, look at, or touch the food at any time while in transit.. That means you MUST stop to check on the food..

Then there is the "heat" factor.. My trailer while towing in the summer easily gets up to 90 degrees, running an oven is going to put that well over 100 degrees! You would HAVE to either eat outside or start a generator, wait 30 minutes to an hour then go in and eat..

Someone mentioned baked potatoes being better in the oven, I have ate baked potatoes prepared many different ways and I have NOT noticed ANY difference in flavor, texture or even how dry they are.. What I have noticed is how inexperienced the CHEF is by either overcooking them to death or undercooking them (raw in the center)..

2-3 minutes in the average microwave for an average size potato results in a very nicely done "baked" potato in a microwave. Just simply try 2 minutes and stab with a fork, if hard resistance is met you simply add a minute and try again.. Once the fork stabs easily into the potato it is done, cook no further..

By the way, MOST restaurants do not "bake" their potatoes in a regular oven, no, it would take too long.. Instead they use CONVECTION OVENS which means they can cook a large potato in about 10 minutes or less and at 12 minutes it is pretty much a over cooked rock..

We quit stopping at fast food joints years ago since the food was not "fast" and the quality was not good.. Typically spent 20-25 minutes standing in line before ever placing the order then another 10-15 minutes for them to "prepare" it.. then another 15 minutes gobbling it down.. All told we would spend an HOUR to get COLD and sloppy made food and the insult was we paid MORE for it than if we simply did our own cooking..