Ah, RV ovens. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Or, can you? We find that people either love their RV’s oven or they hate it. If it’s hard to cook with, forget it!
What type of oven do you have in your RV’s indoor kitchen? Do you use it often, or hardly ever? Now that we’re featuring a recipe every day in our newsletters, your answers will help determine which recipes we post.
In addition to voting, please leave a comment telling us if you like the oven you have in your RV or if you wish it were a different kind. We’re curious to hear your answers. Thanks!
In our Thor 22FE, I replaced our oven with a stovetop and an additional storage drawer. The oven was just not used because we never got the hang of it. We plan to replace the microwave with a convection oven next.
We have the same problem.
We often “store” bread in our oven 😂 . The trick is don’t forget about it when we get home 🙄 .
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Convection Microwave. Works well for us. Wish it was also “air fryer.”
I checked traditional but it is a teeny tiny traditional oven. Should we ever replace our travel trailer, one of the criteria will be a full-size (or near full-size) oven! This is the only thing I would change about our travel trailer!
We have a 20 year-old traditional RV stove and oven. It takes a short while to light the pilot, but after that it works as it was designed. It isn’t our home range and oven, but it does the job.
I checked, I don’t have an oven. Camper is 11 years old never use it other than storage. Traveling now with a June oven that does not heat up the camper.
Traditional. Used twice. To warm up pizza and do some garlic bread. Just a piece of storage. I think maybe time to swap out for a convection. Do most baking in a Dutch oven.
Solar oven
We have a conventional oven that came with our 1994 5th wheel. The wife was always complaining that it burned everything on the bottom and never got anything done right on the top. So after some investigating on YouTube I found the answer to great baking in our oven!
A rectangular pizza Stone ($26) and an oven temperature gauge($9) the stone evens out the heat and the gauge gives us a true oven temp reading.
Now she is baking and cooking up a storm with no Cajun blackened food!
Hope this helps!
Happy RVing, Hope to see you down the road!
Seems like many RV’s today, especially motorhomes, have convection microwaves, to save space by combining two appliances into one.. That’s what we have in our New Aire. We miss having a standard “real” oven. Our personal experience is that although baking/roasting can be done in the convection/microwave using the manual convection mode (not with microwave), it never works as well as a standard oven.
I have a traditional motorhome oven, ie tiny. I can’t even roast a chicken in it. The temperature on the dial is totally off. I’ve only cooked above the burner but have wondered if you can broil below the burner. Never tried it. I bought a vertical toaster oven (to save counter space) and use that for roasting most of the time.
Fifth wheel had convection/microwave and conventional (which never worked well). My Class C had conventional which was used for storage and I bought a counter-top toaster oven….
I had to remove some drawers to install a real oven for the wife. She hates the convection microwave. Even after taking in a class at an FMCA convection, it is the real oven for her.
we don’t have an oven, we use cast iron pot with a lid on the gas stove and an instantpot.
My built-in propane oven and stove top have never been used. They provide a paltry amount of addt’l storage and counter space. Being a vegetarian, the built-in microwave, my counter-top Breville convection oven, a Cuisinart hotplate, and an InstantPot more than meet my needs. Interior propane usage scares the bejeezies out of me….
I only fill the propane tank as needed for my outdoor propane fire pit.
We dislike our “Convection” oven! We do most of our cooking outside…
The traditional oven is great for storing bread, pastry and similar items. Predominately use microwave oven. Other cooking is outside.
It came with a traditional oven. Makes for great storage. Never used it for cooking, and likely never will. If it can’t be grilled outside we don’t cook it. We find cooking inside to be counter to camping.
My wife has used the RV oven a couple of times, but prefers a B&D Convection Toaster Oven for most baking needs. She also uses her Insta-Pot and Slow Cooker, plus the Microwave.
Convection/Microwave oven. Love it, works great.
Propane Stove.
Blackstone Grill
Dutch Oven
All good
My 44 year old MH has the original propane stove and oven.We often cook on the stovetop and on occasion use the oven but grilling on charcoal outside is the best. Just use my microwave on occasion to warm up coffee if I’m not boondocking.
Opted for drawers where oven would have gone & have a microwave/convection oven overhead. Can do everything in convection oven that can be done in regular oven.
In addition to our convection/microwave oven, we have a toaster oven that is capable of baking almost any meal we want.
We have the conventional crappy Atmore gas oven that we us as our “root cellar “. We exclusively use a Breville countertop oven what we built into a cabinet on a sliding shelf.
Our oven in the rig is used for storage only due to the fact of having to lite the pilot light every time it is used.
My wife does an excellent job of baking, roasting, etc, in our convection microwave. She attended a class at a Good Sam Rally on convection microwave cooking a few years ago. We use our stovetop, our Weber Q Grill and our convection microwave to prepare meals.
Have a traditional propane oven. I think we only used it once to make toast.
Love my conventional oven in my RV! Biscuits for strawberry shortcake and other fresh fruits that we’ve just picked while camping! Breakfast muffins (egg, cheese, ham, etc) for grab and go mornings. Breakfast cookies and brownies. Getting a nice crisp pizza crust on leftover pizza, rather than a soft, mushy microwave heat-up. RV baking takes some adjustments in time for cooking and spacing of the oven racks. And a good pizza stone. When not in use, the oven stores all my bakeware.
A 120 volt plug in toaster oven. Big enough for a 12″ pizza but we need power so sometimes we have to fire up the Honda
I have had the combo microwave/convection oven in an RV and loved them. Just bought a travel trailer and unfortunately only a propane oven. The salesman said to put a pizza stone in the bottom to help disseminate the heat equally.
Our convection/microwave oven used to be our first choice, but that was before we found ” Ninja Foodi” and it seems to do all the things our other did and doesn’t heat up the motorhome. Now, if they only could figure a way to make it smaller, it would be perfect.
“Foodi” makes the BEST fried chicken without all the oil that I have ever tasted.
Been in our fifth wheel for 11 years and my dear wife has cooked wonderful meals in our propane oven. I installed an electric starter for the cooktop and ran another line into the oven to light the pilot light.
We have a convection/microwave oven. It is our only oven (all electric RV). Also, it is exactly the same specs (different appearance and badging, but same manufacturer) as the one in our house. Our power management system causes it to cook more slowly than the one in our house does, but otherwise we like it and unreservedly use it.
Same here and it works fine for us.
We have a convection microwave. I am learning to use it but could use more receipes.
We’ve never used our oven in either MH we’ve owned, because we don’t like the cooking odors . Cook outside with Instant pot or toaster oven or fire.