Coleman Packaway Oven

Product Information

Regarding functionality, you have ovens that can be described as general-purpose types, and the other group designed especially for pizzas.

Our next attempt at preparing some kind of fresh breakfast came years later, in Brazil. We love tapiocas: small pancakes of tapioca flour (a specific kind of manioc/cassava flour). We watched vendors prepare them in their street stall and it looked easy enough: sieve the tapioca, sprinkle a handful of the flour in a hot, dry frying pan, top it with sweet or salty toppings, and there you go. This oven is without its own heat source, so you will need some external. This can be any of the gas burners from this brand or a wood-burning stove. Coleman is well-known for its numerous propane and liquid fuel stoves, see this Coleman Triton as an example. Here are some numbers you might want to see. The dimensions without its chimney are 25.2 x 14.1 x 8.6 inches (64 x 36 x 22 cm), and the unboxed weight is 24.2 lb (10.9 kg).

With the Coleman Camp Oven the discussion was a bit different as it wasn’t a total ‘yes’ from Coen nor a rigorous ‘no’ from me. We both hesitated. Hence not the discussion for weeks or months, but years.

Keeping the oven at the right temperature is a challenge for those who depend on cooking outdoors. When it’s cold but especially windy, it is hard to keep the temperature constant. It’s best to secure a spot void of changes in wind or temperature. At one place, high on the Chilean altiplano, we baked inside the Land Cruiser instead, converting the vehicle into a sauna in the process. Keeping the temperature steady has remained the challenge. When there is wind we bake inside the Land Cruiser, putting the stove on a wooden cutting board to protect the storage compartment lid from the heat.

Ovens that have their own integrated burner. This can be one or more propane burners, or some burner operating on solid fuel like wood and pellets.