Solutions to SMALL Problems in RVs

[Captain Gene]

I hope this thread is a place we can offer creative ideas to solve common problems!!

Many times we have faced BIG meals with tiny oven and galley. Even the tiny 10# bird does not fit! A nice smile and please usually got the butcher to slice the bird in half. One to cook and one to freeze or share,

Happy Holidays

Gene :campfire.

[JWood422]

Great suggestion! My 22” Blackstone griddle goes in to the forward storage compartment of my 2016 Rockwood 2703ws easier in two pieces than all together. I put it in on its side if I’m carrying it in the back of my Ford Expedition.

[SeaDog]

camp cooking in an RV presents all sorts of challenges I'm always amazed at the easy fixes folks come up with on the forum and is just one more reason for reading the posts thanks

[JWood422]

Another small tip. There’s a thread discussing removing the oven for more storage space. We use our oven for storing chips and AND for baking. Having to light the pilot light keeps us from burning up the contents.

[tugboat369]

There is a reason why most used RVs have a unused oven it’s size. We have had 4 RV’S and have never used the oven. Our last RV had a microwave/convection oven and a oven the M/C was bigger and did use that. Our current RV does not have a oven just a M/C and like it that way.

[richp]

I'm apparently one of the folks who actually use our oven. Yeah, it's awkward to light, but a long stem butane lighter does the trick for me. Sure, you can't cook big things like turkeys, but for cakes, cookies, casseroles and other such items, it works well for us.

My "small solution" to uneven oven heating is the use of four 6" square ceramic tiles laid on the bottom as a heat diffuser.

Rich Phillips

[Bytesponge]

My wife uses her Pizza Stone to equally distribute heat.
It works somewhat like the old Italian pizza ovens used to.
Great for casseroles and pies not to mention pizza.
DW makes her own dough!

[Luke Moseley]

Originally Posted by JWood422

Great suggestion! My 22” Blackstone griddle goes in to the forward storage compartment of my 2016 Rockwood 2703ws easier in two pieces than all together. I put it in on its side if I’m carrying it in the back of my Ford Expedition.

Just upgraded to the 22 inch blackstone from the 17 inch. Can't wait to use it! I also got an adjustable regulator so ill have better pressure.

[richp]

Luke, hoping to not derail the thread too far, but what couldn't you cook with the 17 that made you go 22?


Rich Phillips

[MCTroy]

We use the oven for storage and a toaster oven to warm food as needed. The toaster oven fits nicely under the kitchen cupboard and doesn't take up.much space. For warming bread or baking potatoe skins, it is perfect and doesn't heat up.the trailer.

[bikendan]

Originally Posted by MCTroy

We use the oven for storage and a toaster oven to warm food as needed. The toaster oven fits nicely under the kitchen cupboard and doesn't take up.much space. For warming bread or baking potatoe skins, it is perfect and doesn't heat up.the trailer.

A toaster oven is useless for dry camping or boondocking unless you crank up the generator. That's why an oven is necessary for many of us.

[OscarsMom2]

Originally Posted by richp

Luke, hoping to not derail the thread too far, but what couldn't you cook with the 17 that made you go 22?


Rich Phillips

I don’t know about Luke, but I bought a 22” because it has 2 burners instead of just one. I get better heat distribution with the 22”, but I still use the 17” for camping.

[Heffy]

We cook like we're on the Food Network when we camp (well at home too), We have a 2 burner Camp Chef Explorer "stove" and I have a Weber large "Q" Grill that have both worked out great in the 10 years we've been camping. The main reason we went with the Camp Chef stove was because my wife kept boiling stuff over and the nice Coleman 2 and 3 burner stoves just didn't fare well.

The weber Q grill has enough surface area to grill 8 burgers or a couple pounds of chicken thighs at a time which helps feed the four of us and any guests/visitors when we're out.

https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-EX6...s%2C151&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/Weber-5306000...9461540&sr=8-7

I have an adapter fitted to a 20lb propane tank that allows me to use both at the same time.

Jeff

[Mrrobalo]

We use a air frier that’s a portable oven style. I use it outside on a separate cord to the power box and have a griddle too. The oven is large enough to air fry 24 chicken wings at a time as well as a pizza on bake. Haven’t used the oven in camper yet but it’s great for storage.

[Beachbourbon]

Originally Posted by richp

I'm apparently one of the folks who actually use our oven. Yeah, it's awkward to light, but a long stem butane lighter does the trick for me. Sure, you can't cook big things like turkeys, but for cakes, cookies, casseroles and other such items, it works well for us.

My "small solution" to uneven oven heating is the use of four 6" square ceramic tiles laid on the bottom as a heat diffuser.

Rich Phillips

We use it too. We use the oven regularly...but we cook and are good at it. This talk of removing the oven has me perplexed and puzzled. The dive in resale value alone should prevent anyone from even considering removing their oven.

[Beachbourbon]

Originally Posted by bikendan

A toaster oven is useless for dry camping or boondocking unless you crank up the generator. That's why an oven is necessary for many of us.

Well said, I wish I would have thought of that.

[bikendan]

Originally Posted by Beachbourbon

Well said, I wish I would have thought of that.

Well, when we lived in California and camped exclusively at the state park campgrounds, for 30 years, we never had any hookups. So you have to learn to dry camp and an oven is very useful, while a toaster oven, air fryer and electric coffeemaker are useless.

[5picker]

Never understood those that say their R/V oven is useless???

We do biscuits, pies, bread, ham, quiche, pizza, cakes and just about anything we'd make at home.

A pizza stone in the bottom has always worked for us across several different ovens.

[Denver Dan]

I'm in the process of removing my gas oven to replace it with a couple of drawers, and swapping out my microwave for a microwave/convection oven. My 25' Prism doesn't have much in the way of storage space and I only used the gas oven once (to burn the bejesus out of some biscuits) so I don't think I'm going to miss it as much as I'm going to appreciate the additional storage.

For those relatively rare occasions when I'm boondocking I plan meals that can be cooked on the grill or the stovetop, or I just visit a local eatery.

[JWood422]

Here’s something I came up with on my own. I needed to hide a wrapped birthday present for my wife in the forward storage compartment. Since my storage isn’t pass-through, I tied a line to it before sliding it in and hiding it behind other items. Made it very easy to pull it out on her birthday.