12 Volt oven

Rocky,,,we got one of those fangdangled Dickie jobs about twelve months ago, and SWMBO loves the bloody thing. Great for doing a bit of preheating of din-dins before you get to wherever your going.

meow.

rick.

you can now get a 12 volt microwave.

Hi Rock Crawler,

If you want a quality 12volt reheating oven have a look at this site

www.travelbuddy.net.au

This is an Australian built unit, I have had one for 3 yrs and the I use it constantly, yes expensive but you get what you pay for.

Leigh.

Rock Crawler - For $25 I'm happy with the DSE. It takes a while (about an hour for 2 pies), and with all the other gizmos running from the cig lighter (gps, rear view camera monitor etc), adding the oven would sometimes blow a fuse - so now we run it from an additional cig lighter fitting we put in the back of the car for powering the rear camera which we weren't using. Also the front cig lighter socket turns off when the ignition is turned off, but the back one stays on - a big advantage if you put the pies on, then take a walk for an hour. The oven survived the rough roads and did a great job - nice hot lunches; pies, sausage rolls, heated up leftovers or whatever. Small, but enough for lunch for two. With more than 2 pies, have to swap them round half way through the heating time, as the top ones won't heat through.

Hi Rock Crawler...
We used one of the DS ones in the back of the Patrol when we went on our 4 week trip and found it to be fantastic. There are 4 of us and it had no trouble heating the pies or chiko rolls etc for all of us. We put them in frozen when we stopped for morning tea, then rotated them about an hour and half later and about another hour later we were eating extremely hot tucker.
Wouldnt be caught without it now. Best addition to the "essential" geer we have... It works so well I cant see that it warrants spending any more than the $29 at DS.
Have a good one..

www.travelbuddy.net.au/



this kinda thing?

Got their brochure here
Bit rich though :(

We have had our DS oven for some time & have found it adequate to heat food for two while travelling ,we have put another 12v plug in the back of the vehicle as we also found that the wiring wasn't heavy enough in the cig lighter plug. Food comes out hotter that most could eat so can't see bacteria problem etc. We are very cautious about buying pies etc on the road after one expensive bout of food piosoning in WA.

There's a few different suppliers of that basic $30 stove around with some minor differences. The Dick smith ones i have seen were a little poor in quality so like any cheap imported stuff , go over it carefully checking that it closes nicelt etc.

We have found ours quite useful as we often buy pack of frozen pasties for a trip.

They are quite slow though as you'd expect from 70 odd watt elements. I don't think I'd get the expense one as It seems to have same low power.

They heat to 150c and mine does get there - eventually.

Am thinking of increasing the power of mine which would make it a really must take camping acessory.

Robin Miller

I have the D/s 12volt oven and it works great, Pies ? not very inventive are we. I have put two pieces of steak with onions wrapped in foil , then another foil parcel with mushrooms in it , several (small) spuds in foil and a small tin of peas unopened all in the oven at the same time.I put this on about mid afternoon and is ready for tea time, 3 hours or so . Cooks while you drive / play. I also had to change the cig lighter plug for a bigger plug but it works good for $25.

Hi,
I have used the Coleman colapsible oven, and it is the ducks guts. It will do 250°C plus, comes with thermometer, and colapses to about 2 cm thick by 30 cm by 30 cm. Weighs a kilo or two. You put it on your gas burner, and then look at the thermometer, and adjust the gas flow rate to settle it on 180°C or 200°C or whatever, and can cook roasts, breads, heat pies, and only takes twenty minutes to heat pies. And the unit costs about $90. Excellent

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Sounds like these things are used for heating only not acutual cooking. If so ,why not do what a mate did years ago & make a small wire basket sort of thing that fitted above the exhaust manifold to heat pies,cans etc while driving. Bugger all cost, no wiring , one less thing to take up room & pack .

This one looks OK, if you do a search there is a seller with them for $29.99 USD, but this seller has more info, so I have linked to it. ..... Site Link