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My partner wants me to ask you all if anyone else finds it hard cooking in their m/home with the gas oven. She is sick of burning the pies, oven chips,pizzas etc. She blames the oven but I'm not so sure! Says she is used to cooking with electric oven at home. 

Any advice for her not me!

Paul

Its not just the m/home,she did the same in the caravan!

We found that our oven in the old A-class was hardly ever used.  When it was it seemed to take forever to cook the delicacies and hardly ever turned out a properly cooked dish.  I took the oven out, sealed the gas pipe, and put a microwave in.  Ace!  No bother now - and we've had a m'wave built in to our current Oregon Re.  Much better - and I do most of the cooking when we're away whilst my dearest reads yet another book.  She does half of the washing up though, so I can't compalin.

We rarely used the m'wave over the water due to the low amperage of most of the hookups over there;  but then I love BBQing!

my gas oven works as well if not better than the one at home, tell your  O/H to pratice cooking more,

floppy

Hi Paul & OH

I find that unless I turn things in the motorhome oven a couple of times during cooking one side can burn. Also I tend to put things on the highest shelf setting so that it isn't so close to the flame. I have electric fan oven at home so a big difference to get used to, but I wouldn't be without it. We rally and wild camp a fair bit so don't always have hook-ups so a microwave isn't an option for us.

Tina

We don't have an oven or grill fitted in our van as in most of the Hymers.  When we bought it we thought we would need something so put a microwave in.  The microwave was a waste of money and space for us as all we use it for is to heat the wheatbags up to use as 'hotwater bottles' in the winter.  Either use the hob or we have a Cook and Steam which is fantastic - fries, casseroles, can be used like a wok, steams - you can even make cakes in it. 

Jean

Paul

GO TO THE PUB!!!!!!!

Sharon

Having been brought up from my youth as a tent camper. Cooking presents no problem even cooking on an open fire. I can do a three course dinner on a single burner and a full Sunday roast on an open fire-perfect. It's just a question of organising yourself and maybe altering your diet and expectations when away.

Barbys are good for cooking, butterfly leg of lamb and jacket spuds with salad or foil roasted veggies-perfect. Latterly if on hook-up we use the slow cooker whist we are out for the day and finish of the roast spuds and yorkshires in the double skillet.

Learning one pot cooking  can be very useful. M&S used to do a very good holiday cookbook which included no-cook dishes,one and two burner meals as well as some oven cooking.You may be able to obtain a second-hand copy, perhaps M&S should reprint it. There is book called the 'Outdoor cookbook' which is from outdoor shope or mail order from the likes of Amazon.

Hi twooks

Originally bought mine as a steamer but now have one in the house and MH and use for loads of things.  In MH even make upside down cheese on toast  ie cheese on bottom to shape of bread, and then bread on top - allow cheese to melt, turn over with nylon fish slice and toast the other side - yummy, can cook bacon to go with it at the same time.

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Jean

I lived in my parent's Polar caravan for two years whilst at college, and LOVED the gas oven in it.  It did the BEST baked potatoes EVER, I had them down to a fine art

Used the oven all the time, and had no problems...and believe me, I'm no chef

But I struggle with electric ovens, and would choose a gas oven everytime anyway

I've never had any problems with the ovens in the MH's.  They cook a bit faster but that's not a problem when everyone is whinging for grub

Sara