Using a grill as an oven
You'll have to go easy with me, I'm a bloke that does little to no cooking at home and I maybe asking the impossible but here goes.
We have a two ring gas stove with a grill below it. The grill is thermally lined and is really quite large. I just wondered is there is a technique to use the grill compartment as an oven?
It seems a waste of space to have such an area just for grilling.
Love to hear your pointers
Thanks
Pete
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In my experience van grills tend to be rubbishy. To use it as an oven will likely Ieave you wishing for salad.
It probably won't heat anything right through while, at the same time charring the top. It's simply not designed for cooking as per an oven and will need to be used with the grill door/flap open.
Do you have a microwave, outdoor BBQ of some sort, slow cooker, Ramoska, electric frying pan or something along those lines? That's the way to go in my view.
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Not to my knowledge sadly you'll need temperature regulation to do anything that would be dine in an oven. I agree its a waste of space myself. What about a slow cooker or Remoska, the latter claims to cooks roasts and cakes as well, I've not used one and
can't justify having one . Slow cooker good if away in the colder weather, I believe you can get Ines that work on 12v. See the no ehu thread, at lot to safe through, but worth a read.Are you new to motorhoming as well as CT? Good to hear your questions.
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No problem! What you need is a camp oven. Just a big metal box really, with internal shelves. Designed to sit on a camp fire or gas burner and spreads heat all around. Perhaps your grill is so big because it was designed to have one of these used inside.
Look carfully in all the lockers as there could be one lurking somewhere.0 -
Assuming the grill will stay lit with the door closed, how are you going tho know what temperature it is and/or regulate it?
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Depends what you want to cook in it. I use our grill to warm through things like pies and kievs, oven chips and some other things can be done but you have to play with the flame. I often cover food with tinfoil which stops it from burning. Grills have to
be used with the door open as they reach such high temps. I do use the oven in the van in winter but the rest of the year we tend not to eat food that requires going in an oven. If you want to do roasts then no not under a grill.0 -
In my experience van grills tend to be rubbishy. To use it as an oven will likely Ieave you wishing for salad.
It probably won't heat anything right through while, at the same time charring the top. It's simply not designed for cooking as per an oven and will need to be used with the grill door/flap open.
Do you have a microwave, outdoor BBQ of some sort, slow cooker, Ramoska, electric frying pan or something along those lines? That's the way to go in my view.
Hi, thanks, I'll check out the Ramoska. I know it's a strange question but it just seems such a large space with a tiny little grill pan rattling around in it I wondered if there was another use intended for it. Thanks again
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Not to my knowledge sadly you'll need temperature regulation to do anything that would be dine in an oven. I agree its a waste of space myself. What about a slow cooker or Remoska, the latter claims to cooks roasts and cakes as well, I've not used one and
can't justify having one . Slow cooker good if away in the colder weather, I believe you can get Ines that work on 12v. See the no ehu thread, at lot to safe through, but worth a read.Are you new to motorhoming as well as CT? Good to hear your questions.
I'll take a look at that thread, thanks. Yes, just bought my first camper a few weeks back, I'm loving it!
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No problem! What you need is a camp oven. Just a big metal box really, with internal shelves. Designed to sit on a camp fire or gas burner and spreads heat all around. Perhaps your grill is so big because it was designed to have one of these used inside.
Look carfully in all the lockers as there could be one lurking somewhere.oh ok, thanks. I'll have a search for one
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Assuming the grill will stay lit with the door closed, how are you going tho know what temperature it is and/or regulate it?
Hi, good point! I won't know the temp but the grill burner is quite variable??
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Depends what you want to cook in it. I use our grill to warm through things like pies and kievs, oven chips and some other things can be done but you have to play with the flame. I often cover food with tinfoil which stops it from burning. Grills have to
be used with the door open as they reach such high temps. I do use the oven in the van in winter but the rest of the year we tend not to eat food that requires going in an oven. If you want to do roasts then no not under a grill.pie and chips! Enough said, I'm happy with that!
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we had one in our chausson MH and yes you can, as said earlier you leave the door open slightly as the destructions state but you have to leave it to warm through and stabilize temp for at least twenty minutes. Unless your cooking something really tricky
that needs spot on temp theni wouldn't worry about temp control or lack of. Bang it in till its cooked n0 -
we had one in our chausson MH and yes you can, as said earlier you leave the door open slightly as the destructions state but you have to leave it to warm through and stabilize temp for at least twenty minutes. Unless your cooking something really tricky
that needs spot on temp theni wouldn't worry about temp control or lack of. Bang it in till its cooked nSPK, I like your attitude "bang it in til it's cooked"!
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I have recently taken to more basic cooking - having found a load of yummy recipes and ideas on Pinterest, you will find me sitting outside next to my 'Go Anywhere' Weber with just a wood fire in it and cooking all sorts of yummies- takes me back to the 14th Leicesters! Wonderful camp food. Then, we can have a fire pit and sit around it in the evening.
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