Coleman Portable Camping Oven

I've often wanted one of those fancy camp stove/oven combos. Then I saw Coleman's camp oven that folds flat and compact and uses your existing stove. For our maiden voyage with the camp stove, I whipped up some Mediterranean Stuffed Bell Peppers, a fancy meal for being out in the 'wilderness'. How it went: The whole thing is metal and as common sense would tell you, the outside get's hot. I thought the door knob would be hot too, fumbled with turning it using pot-holders, then found out it's not hot. Adjusting your desired temp is all controlled by your stove flame. I did not find it difficult to adjust to the 400 degrees I needed. I slightly over cooked my first pan, the bottom a bit over-done. Second pan came out great. Learning how to use it... My takeaways is it's compact and light, and allows us to easily "bake", warm, etc. The photos made me feel I was making a Coleman commercial!!!

It works great. I placed 2 fire bricks in the bottom to give it some weight and to even out the heat while cooking on a 2 burner camp propane stove. I have been amazed how it has been so easy to adjust the heat on the stove to get the variable heat levels in the oven. I also added another rack so I could cook 2 items at a time. I saw another review where they had added one and it worked great. I ame so glad I purchased this camping oven.

This item is well made for the price. I was looking for a sturdy oven type of container to hookup a UV-C light in. Patched all the vents with aluminum duct tape. When done with it, can be folded up and put away. Maybe one day I will bake some biscuits.

We got the coleman camping stove for our skoolie. We tried it out immediately with cinnamon rolls and we have some tips. We got 2 fire bricks to evenly distribute the heat, thanks to a previous review. What we didnt do was preheat the oven slowly. I cranked that baby up to 400 degrees as fast as possible, and as soon as i put the rolls in it was a fight to keep the temp up. Thats my fault. Because i didnt allow the oven to truly preheat, my rolls had to cook for longer and they got dry. Thats my fault.

Tested this oven on my two burner coleman camp stove the first day I bought it. Came up to temp quickly and held it's temp well. Made an awesome batch of cornbread in my small cast iron skillet. Does cook hot on the bottom so I recommend setting the rack up higher. Definitely recommen this oven!

So far so good. I was able to bake cinnamon roll with use of welders blanket and baking stone. I also bought internal thermometer to verify temp readings. The coleman temp gauge is in par with the internal thermometer as long as the blanket is being utilized.

Used this a few times already and it works great. Baked some biscuits and they turned out great and so did cinnamon rolls.

We rough camp every year in the U.P. of Michigan. This year we had fresh baked muffins for breakfast. Works real well.

Tried my hand at baking a couple of items. Gets hot on the bottom of course, so make sure you don't scorch what you're cooking. Still learning how to use it. The top had warped on me, but I was able to bend it back. The oven was heavier duty than I was expecting.

Listen it works well enough. I've baked rolls and cakes and breads and pretzels in it. (pie is on my to do list). My major critique is that the thermometer is very slow to react. If I've got the oven hot and open the door I'd expect the thermometer to drop pretty quickly, but it doesn't. It also doesn't react quickly to ordinary temperature change within the box. This puts quite a burden on the baker to act as the thermostat within pretty wide error bars. Consequently I find I cannot leave the oven for more than a couple minutes while baking if I want to keep the temp within say 30 degrees of target.