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Smells II
Yahoo Message Number: 23119
One of the RV magazines I read recommended using a convection oven outside the coach to keep smells from baking or roasting from becoming a permanant odor.  I've been looking at the ovens.  There are a wide variety and quite a range of prices.  Consumers Reports hasn't studied the ovens in the recent past so they're no help.  Does anyone in the group use them either in the LD or at home?  What should I be looking for and what should I avoid? I know this isn't for boondocking.  The wattage draw is a problem if I plug it into the coach but I don't see why I couldn't run an extension cord and plug into the main electric connection.
Any comments?  advice?  Thanks in advance!

Celia Gumm
Re: Smells II
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 23233
Celia,

I can't help you with a portable convection oven but Victor's suggestions of the Coleman oven or using Dutch ovens work fine. I used to own a Coleman stovetop oven when I tented and they work fine but aren't real big. The same goes for Dutch ovens but they also work great when you get used to using them. Cooking things outside does have advantages at times and having a portable stove and other things to cook with outside are a good idea but not only for odor reasons.
 The best way to prevent food smells inside from cooking is to use the vent hood fan and keep the kitchen window open at least a little.
Keeping other vents open or using the FF also helps but the range hood fan is the best way to keep from getting smells that linger! Using the FF rather than the range hood fan can make them settle on things inside that require more work to eliminate. I don't cook bacon or sausages and many of the greasy things that often cause problems with lingering smells but I have cooked many spicy and fragrant items inside our LD and there are no lingering odors from any of them! If you can cook a heavily spiced and fragrant meal like one with a lot of curry and other spices in it and not have lingering smells I think the same would hold for bacon or other greasy odor causing problem foods.

One good thing about LD is they use through the wall fan powered vents in the kitchen. This is something many other RV companies have stopped doing and gone to vent hoods that suck the air through a filter and blow it back into the inside air. Those don't work very well even with a new charcoal filter and many don't even use a charcoal filter only an aluminum mesh one! That's why the RV magazines recommend the outdoor cooking methods.

No odor is permanent! Any odor can be gotten rid of with the proper cleaning and products to get rid of them! Keeping the odors from settling into the carpeting and other parts of the RV by properly ventilating while cooking will keep you from having to get rid of them later.

Mike R
Smells II
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 23120
Celia,

If you want an outdoor oven, I would suggest something along the lines of what Coleman makes.  See site below: http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp?product_id=5010C700&cat egoryid=27400&submittingpage=subcategory.asp I don't know how well this product works, but I'm sure you can find a review on it some where.

I would also look into Dutch ovens.  See this site for all kinds of info on cooking with Dutch ovens: http://www.ceedubs.com/ I watch this guy all the time on my local PBS station.

As a side note,
 Like others who don't have odor problems, I turn on the hood fan and crack open the kitchen window when I am cooking something that may leave a lingering smell.  We have cooked bacon, sausage and other things that would normally leave a smell and have had no problems.  That being said, I recently bought a Coleman stove to cook greasy items outside.  It also give me an excuse to spend more time outside. :-)  I also got tired of watching everyone cook there breakfast, while I waited for everyone to wake up to cook mine. :-)  The dogs and I are early risers.

-Victor
 
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Smells II
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 23123
extension cord and plug into the main electric connection.
 You might even want to get an adapter for the 50 amp plug that are found in some CG's.

Allen