Convection/Microwave vs. Gas Oven?

[TwoSporks]

We have the convection microwave in our trailer and I so wish I had the gas oven. We are rarely hooked up so I rarely use the microwave.

If you wild camp a lot and like to cook/bake, you will likely be grateful for having a gas oven. If you will be hooked up all the time, the microwave could be fine.

I have found the microwave/convection to work okay. It is small and the oven heating is inconsistent but I can still get it to work for me most of the time.

[OTRA15]

FYI a great thread with folks who use the gas oven and like it.

http://www.airforums.com/forums/f484...ven-28619.html

We could not travel without the gas oven, especially in the spring and fall.

Happy Trails!

[graysailor]

For those who have trouble lighting their gas oven I alway use one of long gadgets that you can use to light a BBQ grill. The automatic lighter has a mind of its own.

[Toasterlife]

I love the gas oven, we are often in parks with no electricity, at which turns the microwave into a storage area. On a cool evening, or a rainy afternoon, backing a cake will warm the cabin a little and fill the whole airstream with a great aroma, and give you hiking snacks - it all depends on your ration of dry camping to electric camping.

[Wayne&Sam]

Originally Posted by KJRitchie

I'm not sure why the shelf takes up so much space. Do people really sit on this shelf while taking a shower?

Kelvin

Isn't that where the fish water tanks is? And the space it takes up is at the lowest part of the ceiling.

[m.hony]

Shelf?
I thought was a seat.
I thought is was there over the wheel/wheel well.

[james.mileur]

For anyone who traded the oven for draws, pull out the top draw, as a drawer, and ensure the copper gas line to the cooktop is not being hit everytime the draw closes.
Don't ask how I know this, y'all.

[Norrie46]

We have the Conv/Microwave oven and use it all the time especially on convection. We had the originally supplied Sharp removed ( it was a piece of garbage) and replaced with a Panasonic. My wife is an excellent cook and uses it for baking cakes, muffins banana bread etc. She also uses it for roasting tomatoes and cooking beetroot casseroles. If it won't fit in the oven it goes out on the barbecue, a Weber Q3200, which we also use as an oven. We use Le Creuset pots and cast iron pans on the barbecue. This keeps the heat put of the trailer in warmer climates.

[eagleman]

Propane refills are a pain and in 25 years of RVing, I have never used the oven. In my last Motor home I removed the stovetop/oven unit and replaced it with just a Propane cooktop. The space saved was used for a convection/microwave which can do baking or broiling for popcorn, pizza or steak. But, installing a microwave that low does require some bending over for seeing the controls, in and out of the food, but mostly a pain when having to clean the interior. Use that lower space for storage and mount the microwave/convection unit at counter or eye height. But campground camping or with a generator the convection/ microwave unit can do so much more. Just look at the control nomenclature for the oven and for the C/M and think about what you might want to cook. Are you going to cook a turkey? I think not.

[eagleman]

Propane refills are a pain and in 25 years of RVing, I have never used the oven. In my last Motor home I removed the stovetop/oven unit and replaced it with just a Propane cooktop. The space saved was used for a convection/microwave which can do baking or broiling for popcorn, pizza or steak. But, installing a microwave that low does require some bending over for seeing the controls, in and out of the food, but mostly a pain when having to clean the interior. Use that lower space for storage and mount the microwave/convection unit at counter or eye height. But campground camping or with a generator the convection/ microwave unit can do so much more. Just look at the control nomenclature for the oven and for the C/M and think about what you might want to cook. Are you going to cook a turkey? I think not.