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I bought a folding Coleman oven for my propane stove.

I have cooked biscuits and cinnamon rolls in it so far.

I have a problem though. If the top of the food looks done...the bottom is burnt. If the bottom is done the top is still gooey.

I have been cooking on the middle shelf and have tried putting foil on top and on bottom...

Any suggestions?

CPASPARKS wrote:I bought a folding Coleman oven for my propane stove.

I have cooked biscuits and cinnamon rolls in it so far.

I have a problem though. If the top of the food looks done...the bottom is burnt. If the bottom is done the top is still gooey.

I have been cooking on the middle shelf and have tried putting foil on top and on bottom...

Any suggestions?

Get a couple dutch ovens?

I have not done a whole lot of baking in mine. This seems to help... lower the temp about 25 degrees and let it cook a little longer. See if that help, I need to play around with mine some more. I wished I spent a little more for a better oven.

CPASparks...you may have gotten one of the ovens developed for the Southern Hemisphere trade it out for a Northern Hemisphere model, burns from the top down... honestly...I've burned many a cinnamon roll in mine...thing is, everyone eats them up anyway and says they were great, but then maybe they were just being polite...but they did all get eaten and I did make the effort....I'm thinking an aluminum tent to help break up the direct heat to the bottom of the pan...still working on it all though...I've had decent results with pies...Doug

Arthur and Doug,
Thanks for the input.

I might try putting a foil pan on the bottom to deflect the direct heat.

If you come up with a solution...please let me know.

I like the compact-ness of the folding stove and I have a great spot that it fits in my galley when folded.

It looks cool sitting on my coleman stove. I just wish my cinnamon rolls would not burn.

Get a good oven thermometer and trust that instead of the knob on the oven. Do some test runs with the thermometer to see what actual temps are compared to the settings.

Also, try using an AirBake baking sheet, or a ceramic stone sheet to put your rolls on. The might help moderate the heat coming from the bottom as it rises to heat the oven. You basically want to "insulate" the bottom of your food so the heat above can catch up with what's at the bottom. Your foil idea, or even s second baking sheet one rack down might work, as well.

The reason dutch ovens work well is the way the cast iron spreads the heat, and big ceramic brick ovens are even better at absorbing and releasing heat evenly. You'll never get the kind of quality heating from a small, portable, lightweight oven that you get at home, so you have to be creative in finding ways to adapt to the uneaven heating of the camp oven.

Dumb question here---how big is your pan? If you fill the oven too much the heat may not reach the top as well. Works the same in a home oven.

Use a baking pan with a lid, and turn it over when they're half done?

halfdome, Danny wrote:We were trying out our TD oven today to see if we could bake cookies without burning them. Our neighbor let us use her Pampered Chef stoneware cookie pan/sheet and it was very nice, cooked the cookies just right. If we can get one without going to a demo party we will. Danny

Danny go to their web site. You can order stuf that way. I am like you, not crazy about demo parties.... my wife that is another story.

I got my pizza stone at Bed, Bath & Beyond.

The Pampered Chef stones are very good. My BBB stone does not seem to be as good. Ceramic content matters.

CD

Pampered Chef makes small stones that fit in a toaster oven. I think it'd fit in the Comelan oven but I'm not shure.

asianflava wrote:Pampered Chef makes small stones that fit in a toaster oven. I think it'd fit in the Comelan oven but I'm not shure.

The neighbor gave us a catalog. It's 8 3/4" x 6 1/2" for $15. I want the next size 11 1/2" x 7 3/4" for $22, it will have plenty of air space around it in our oven. This looks like another Amway or Tupperware party thing just buy it on the Internet @ the company website or eBay. Danny

I took a perfectly good pizza stone and cut about 6" off of it with a diamond saw blade, so it would fit inside the Flamineta.
It worked fine, but so did double bottom baking pans... That was life BDO.
I'm with Kev on this one, get a cast iron dutch oven.