Got this because our power goes out throughout the winter, sometimes for days or weeks. I boiled pasta and melted homemade cheese sauce on the range and then baked the mac and cheese and cookies in the oven on out first trial. A separate thermometer for inside the oven is a must-have. I learned to cook as a kid on a stove with an old oven you had to guess at the temp, eyeball the food, and manually re-adjust the temp knob as food baked, so cooking with the Camp Chef was not completely foreign. It took a bit longer to bake things, the cookies were somewhere around 20 minutes, but it gets there eventually. Totally worth it to have hot food when the electricity is out. A quarter sheet fits in great.
Remember to check under the lift-up spill guard oven bottom before using. Our instruction manual slid under there during shipping and [cough-cough] someone turned it on and burned it slightly upon first use. It probably says not to do that in the instruction manual, but it wasn't visible at the time. We were unable to find the booklet until we noticed the smell and smoke from it burning. Camp Chef sent us a new manual.
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