Cooking while you’re camping doesn’t need to be a hassle. There are alternatives to cooking over a campfire grill. A camp oven is convenient and provides almost the same cooking experience you would have at home. A camp oven affords you the opportunity to cook a variety of meals while you are enjoying your outdoor vacation. You don’t need to be stuck eating hot dogs and hamburgers every day. With camp oven cooking you can make pizza or a roast with vegetables while enjoying your camping adventure.
There are two popular camp oven brands many campers recommend. The Camp Chef Oven and Coleman Camp Oven are a step above the rest in providing excellent cooking experiences in camp oven cooking. Camp Chef offers two categories of camp oven. The Camp Chef Portable Oven is great for short camping trips. It has a maximum temperature of 400 degrees so you should be able to cook almost anything you would like. It is portable so this camp oven is a little smaller. It operates with a small propane tank and uses very little propane per meal. You can cook almost 7 hours using the highest setting. Camp Chef also makes a Camp Chef Oven with 2 stovetop burners. The Camp Chef Camping Outdoor Oven with 2 Burners offers a little more in camp oven cooking. The Camp Chef outdoor camp oven measures 10 x 12 x 10 so you can bake cookies, muffins, and a small roast or other meals. You can use the burners to cook vegetables and side dishes. This Camp Chef oven also uses a small propane tank and has matchless ignition for the oven and burners. You can cook almost 5 hours on one tank of propane.
 Cook your favorite meals with the Camp Chef Portable Outdoor Oven. |
 Add this burner to your oven for an even more versatile propane cooking system. |
Coleman offers similar products in its camp oven line. The Coleman portable camp oven is a small camp oven for baking muffins, biscuits or small meals. It needs to be used with a Coleman 2 or 3 burner camping stove like the Coleman Two Burner Camp stove. The Coleman Camp Oven is placed on the burner surface and heats up from there. It is inexpensive and easy to use. The oven dimensions are small and you can fit one muffin pan or small tray in at a time. Coleman also has a version of the oven and stovetop cooking appliance. The Coleman 9650 has a small oven and two burner cooktop for making easy meals while camping. You can cook bacon and eggs while making biscuits in the oven. It has less BTUs than the Camp Chef oven, is operated with propane and has battery assisted electric ignition. There is a temperature gauge on the front panel. The maximum cooking temperature is also 400 degrees.
 Bake your favorite meals (and desserts!) in this Coleman Camp Oven |
 Compact Stove, perfect for wherever your car camping adventures take you. |
 This all in one camp oven/stove can help you with every meal, day or night. |
Using a camp oven requires a little imagination and flexibility. You won’t be able to cook larger meals like you can at home. You will have to cook in stages. If you’re looking for great camp oven recipes, which have been tested by other campers, you can look on a few different sites to find them. Pinterest has a board just for camp oven recipes like pizza, cinnamon rolls, hobo stew, shrimp and pasta, and steak and eggs to name a few. Camp Chef offers a page on their site for Camp Chef oven recipes as does Coleman on their camp oven site. YouTube has a variety of videos available for making camp oven recipes. The Boy Scouts even have a recipe page on their website for camp oven cooking. While you might be limited in size, as to how much you can cook, you are only limited by your imagination as to what you can cook.
Camp oven cooking offers more convenience and variety for the regular camping enthusiast. You can practice your gourmet skills while enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of the great outdoors. You don’t need to be limited in your menu selections anymore. Check out a camp oven and watch your meal options expand.