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Coleman 5010D700T Camp Oven

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I have seen these ovens on store shelves most of my life. I was certain that a little aluminum box could not function as an oven. But recently, we were embarking on a 10-day camping trip, and I was going to need to bake while we were there. I am pretty adept at baking with coals from a campfire or a charcoal fire, but on the trip in question, there was a burn ban in effect. What to do? I got on Amazon and read reviews about the Coleman Camp Oven, and decided that if my original opinion was correct, Coleman wouldn't still be making this little gem.

I purchased the oven and it arrived when promised. We took it to the campground, and were totally amazed at how beautifully it worked. We baked brownies, biscuits, potatoes, cornbread and even gluten-free hamburger buns and rolls. Everything was wonderful. The oven was easy to set up and use. But it is not like baking at home in your regular oven.

Tips you should know:
> Only use the oven on a camp stove. Try to get your stove as level as possible.
> Start warming it up with a low flame, and increase the stove flame as the oven begins to pre-heat.
> Plan to use small bakeware. Coleman suggests 8x8 pans. Here are some products that we found worked well:
* Nordic Ware Toaster Oven Baking Sheet
* Ekco mini muffin pan for 12 muffins
* Fox Run Set of Four English Muffin Rings (for the burger buns) on the baking sheet
* MSR Blacklite Fry Pan
* 8x8 foil pan
> After your food is in the oven, you really need to watch the temperature gauge from time to time. The longer it bakes, the more likely you will need to adjust the stove flame to regulate the temperature inside the oven. This is NOT set-it-and-forget-it baking.
> We found that timing was pretty close to baking at home, as long as the temperature was constant.
> Try not to peek too often. Peeking lowers the internal temperature. Look when you need to & that's all.
> Clean up spills (outside and inside) as soon as the oven cools. Don't let gunk bake on during the next use.

The oven folds up quickly when it is time to pack up. We keep it in its original box, and it is ready to go!

I still love the thrill of accomplishment of baking using a campfire, but this little oven is a great addition for those times when a fire is not convenient.

May we all have many years of excellent campground baking! Happy Camping! Happy Baking! Happy Eating!

I have had a coleman camp oven for many years. The coleman camp oven will add a new dimension to your camp cooking. This little folding steel box (about a 1 foot square area) will allow you to bake items that you wish you could have had with your camp meal in the past. It's easy to unfold and set up and then easy to refold and pack away. It has an adjustable shelf to accomodate various size items. It fits over the burner on your camp stove and will take up about half the area of a two burner stove. Turn up the heat on the stove burner and monitor the temperature guage on the oven door, when oven is at the desired temperature put whatever item you want to bake into the oven and then wait...wait... wait. Thats probably the main drawback to this oven is that it takes a long time to bake anything in it. However if you want biscuts or other baked item with your meal then the Coleman camp oven is about the only game in town. All in all the Coleman camp oven is a worthwhile addition to your camp cooking equipment.

A friend of mine said these were great, so I finally picked one up here (I found out later that the local Walmart has them for about the same price).

It arrived quickly, and I took it with me on a Columbus Day weekend campout in my pop-up trailer. I used it twice, once for brownies, and once for peach cobbler. Both times the desserts came out fantastic.

I set the oven on my Coleman Road Trip grill. It sat nicely on one of the two burners.

One thing I noticed, though. The temperature gauge seemed to register a bit lower than the actual temp. When I cooked the brownies the recipe called for 350 for 30 minutes. I cooked them for about 35 minutes with the gauge never going over 300 and they were fine.

Also note that it isn't very huge; you can't put a whole cookie sheet or lasagna pan in it. So keep your ideas small and compact.

It folds down into a nice compact square. It is now a part of my camping kitchen, and I look forward to many a baked goody.

This is a great item if you want to have a little fun and impress your friends during your next camping trip. I used the oven in conjunction with my two burner Coleman stove. Unlike some of the other reviews, I found the temperature to be reliable and fairly easy to adjust by changing the flame setting on my stove. I tried two items during my recent trip -- apple pie & fudge -- both came out great. I suspect that some folks may be attempting to place this on an open camp fire, which I probably wouldn't recommend.

This oven fits perfectly on a butane cassete stove as well as colemen stoves. It heats evenly and temp regulation is fast.It pays to order an extra oven rack ( it only comes with one)Baking ready made dough works well and will do a small roast( 3LBs Max) in about the same amount of time as a regular oven.Not suitable for more than product for four.

My old camp oven from Coleman was over 30 years old. I bought this one to replace the old one. These are very well built and perfect to use over a propane stove. I have baked chicken, cookies, cakes, pizza, and just about anything else you cold think of. This is a GREAT thing to have for outdoorsmen.

We are going camping next month, so we bought this oven as an extra way of cooking things (like biscuits.) We tried it out, just to see how well it works. We used it with our Coleman Road Trip Pro Grill which we plan on taking with us camping (but also use at home quite often.) As long as you watch the temperature gague(on the front of the oven) then you should do fine, it worked great with our biscuits at breakfast. it also folds up flat which makes it good for packing for a camping trip.

Outdoor camping is now also possible for my daughter who suffers from Coeliakie. We can bake bread and cook stews from fresh ingredients and do not have to worry about all the additives in dry-frozen or canned food.
The only thing you have to be alert of is that the oven stays on the cooker, it sometimes will glide from it, place the cooker on a real flat spot.

Patience is the key to this product. First get you a good oven thermometer and place in the center of the oven and turn on the gas. Let the oven heat for at least 15 min. Check the temperature on the out side thermometer and then check the inside. Create a ratio. Example: when the outside thermometer reads 225 degrees the inside is 350 degrees, so when I want a 350 degree oven I hold the outside temperature to 225 degrees.

I bought this just last week and used it over the weekend. It was great. Set up in minutes, came up to temperature witin a couple of minutes and I cooked my sons chicken nuggets in it to perfection. I set it on one burner of my Coleman two burner propane stove. Highly recommend it