How Many People Actually Use Their Oven?

[Gene]

Originally Posted by skitique

And yes I did get your jab. . I know it sounds odd but that is what the site says

No jab intended. I think a propane toaster would be a great thing. Making toast while boondocking is difficult unless I want to take out the generator and set it up just to power the toaster. Easier to make it in the oven or on top of the stove. A propane toaster sounds like something to invent if it hasn't been already.

Gene

[Aage]

My wife claims she uses the gas oven all the time when I'm not there.

I tend to believe this, since she never uses it when I am around.

[Gene]

I couldn't get the oven to light this past week, then I discovered the gas was leaking out of a connection just before the pilot assembly. I wouldn't have known except the gas was lit there instead of getting to the pilot. At first I thought it the thermocouple had died, and was contemplating how I would replace it without removing the entire stove, not a happy thought.

There's a nut holding the tubing for the pilot to the pilot assembly. A 12 mm. open end wrench fits on it and about half a turn and the nut was tight. I wonder if this loose nut had been loose for years, but had just become loose enough to allow the flame to light at it, but not the pilot? It would have fed too much air to the pilot, or dissipated enough gas to make it hard to light the pilot—either way, that would explain why the pilot has always been hard to light, especially if the oven had been sitting for a while. That loose nut would allow gas to slowly leak out of the tube back to the knob that opens the pilot valve. Not a lot of gas and not really dangerous, but enough to make us wait until the tube filled with gas again. As soon as I tightened the nut, the pilot lit immediately.

Another learning experience.

Gene

[slowmover]

Thx, Gene.

[nrgtrakr]

Speaking of ovens ...

The design engineer isn't interested in keeping the wall oven in our 75 Overlander.

Have no idea what it might be worth, or if anyone might be interested. It's all there, but I removed it before checking so who knows?

[Markj55]

The sweet smell of something baking or cooking in the oven on a cool night or morning can't be duplicated with a micro - waste of space. Non cooks will perhaps disagree - cooks will not.

Love the oven even though it can be a challenge to light💥


Mark,
The path not taken is the one I take.

[time2play]

I love the sweet smell of something baking in the convection oven, and I also love the convenience of the microwave. Best of both worlds And my husband, a cook, agrees.

Maybe if we ever full-time in our trailer, we might feel differently. But honestly, we are more than pleased with the microwave/convection oven. For those times when we have no power, we do just fine without it - thanks to the cooktop, campfire and portable grill. We make it work.

[bhayden]

Originally Posted by Gene

There's a nut holding the tubing for the pilot to the pilot assembly. A 12 mm. open end wrench fits on it and about half a turn and the nut was tight. [not a 1/2"] I wonder if this loose nut had been loose for years,

Gene

Years??? Your trailer is a 2008. That's brand spanking new as far as I'm concerned (our is early '70s). Perhaps (likely) not properly tightened at the factory. Not dangerous

[PaulnGina]

We use our oven, as recently as last night to cook a pizza. It's the original Magic Chef oven that came in our Avion. It works well, but I'm glad to have an oven thermometer hanging inside so we don't have to guess via the markings on the control knob.

[Ahab]

Originally Posted by time2play

I love the sweet smell of something baking in the convection oven, and I also love the convenience of the microwave. Best of both worlds And my husband, a cook, agrees.

Maybe if we ever full-time in our trailer, we might feel differently. But honestly, we are more than pleased with the microwave/convection oven. For those times when we have no power, we do just fine without it - thanks to the cooktop, campfire and portable grill. We make it work.

Amen, without question the best of both worlds, but we have a generator for those times when boondocking.

[RMB]

Never used it except for storage.
So, this fall, out it comes and a new three burner cook top goes in; the vacated space will now be converted to a dish/glass/cup cabinet.

Ill post photos when the work is finished.

[Michigander]

We only have a convection microwave and cooktop. My wife uses the convection oven all the time, especially for cakes, et.

[bhayden]

Ya'll are much more sophisticated than we are. Since I've never been able to get our dumb fridge to work on 12V (works great on 120 "shore power" or propane) we traditionally use a frozen lasagna in the "ice box" when we head out. It's become a tradition that the first nights dinner is lasagna in the oven which it does a great job on. A microwave just wouldn't be the same tradition as setting up camp and smelling that lasagna cooking in the oven.

[PaulnGina]

So true, so true.

I can't wait to use ours this Fall on a cool morning!

Originally Posted by Markj55

The sweet smell of something baking or cooking in the oven on a cool night or morning can't be duplicated with a micro - waste of space. Non cooks will perhaps disagree - cooks will not.

Love the oven even though it can be a challenge to light💥


Mark,
The path not taken is the one I take.

[mefly2]

Originally Posted by time2play

I love the sweet smell of something baking in the convection oven, and I also love the convenience of the microwave. Best of both worlds And my husband, a cook, agrees.

Maybe if we ever full-time in our trailer, we might feel differently. But honestly, we are more than pleased with the microwave/convection oven. For those times when we have no power, we do just fine without it - thanks to the cooktop, campfire and portable grill. We make it work.

The same for us!

[Rolland]

The stoves were missing when I started on our 67 (31') so I put in a new 2 burner gas stovetop next to the sink, and installed a electric A/C heat unit where the oven was. It is vented under the trailer. On top of the counter we use a stainless oven/convection oven 110v from wal mart ($59) we carry a gen set but only use it when in really remote areas. most of the time we find ourselves able to connect to shore power, otherwise we mainly use the solar power and propane. Rolland


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[Aage]

Originally Posted by bhayden

Since I've never been able to get our dumb fridge to work on 12V (works great on 120 "shore power" or propane)

Certainly, if your refer (what we call a fridge when it's in an Airtream) is the original one, it was only designed to work on LP gas or 120V.

Some of the newer models of refers are also 12V, but the power required to run a refer on 12VDC for very long would require a ton of batteries, IMHO.

So, you are now just as sophisticated as your friends!

[Caffeinated]

Cornbread in the oven, chili on the stove top. That's how these Oregonians deal with a rainy cold campsite.

Mike

[OTRA15]

We got the new FC20 because it has the gas oven.

[mccrosti]

Me! Love my oven. I like to make cinnamon rolls for my family Saturday mornings.


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