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PostMon Mar 14, 2011 9:47 am 
This oven uses charcoal and a cardboard box. This copied from an emergency preparedness site. One of the nice things about charcoal is that you can regulate the heat you will receive from it. Each briquette will produce about 40 degrees of heat. If you are baking bread, for example, and need 400 degrees of heat for your oven, simply use ten briquettes. To conserve heat and thereby get the maximum heat value from your charcoal, you must learn to funnel the heat where you want it rather than letting it dissipate into the air around you. One excellent way to do this is to cook inside a cardboard oven. Take a cardboard box, about the size of an orange crate, and cover it with aluminum foil inside and out. Be sure that the shiny side is visible so that maximum reflectivity is achieved. Turn the box on its side so that the opening is no longer on the top but is on the side. Place some small bricks or other noncombustible material inside the box so that you can rest a cookie sheet about two or three inches above the bottom of the box. Place ten burning charcoal briquettes between the bricks and the cooking sheet (if you need 400 degrees). Then place your bread pans or whatever else you are using on top of the cookie sheet. While cooking, prop a foil-covered cardboard lid over the open side, leaving a large crack for air to get in. Charcoal needs a lot of air to burn. Bake your bread, cake, cookies, etc. just like you would in your regular oven. The results will amaze you.

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PostMon Mar 14, 2011 10:48 am 
Thanks for the info. I will be sure to try some baking next time I go car camping. Humm, maybe Banquet Frozen Fried Chicken hmmm.gif

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PostTue Mar 15, 2011 12:00 pm 
Humm. Most backpackers don't carry charcoal briquettes, or bricks for that matter. Maybe you could substitute esbit tablets. How about tiles from the space shuttle as s sub for the bricks?

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PostFri Mar 18, 2011 8:21 am 
Very true, Hulk. It's more for car camping or when your ride home forgets to pick you up at a trailhead campground and you simply must have some Beer Bread with your creek-cold beer. Beer Bread yields 1 loaf Ingredients: 3 cups self-rising flour 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 12 ounces beer Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. 2. Butter an 8×4 inch loaf pan and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt and beer; mix well. The mixture will be sticky. Pour into the loaf pan and bake for about 55 minutes. Cardboard & foil - this simple bread tastes like emergency prepardness food at it's best. up.gif

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