Making Bread on the Road

WarrenG · 03-15-2018, 06:37 PM

I make bread at home 2-3 times a week. Mostly boules (round loaves), and cooked in a cast iron ComboCooker (dutch oven). I use most of the methods shown by Trevor Wilson on YouTube and Instagram.

Our next trip is coming up in a month and I intend to continue making bread on the road, and my ComboCooker fits in our fiver's oven, but I haven't used it there yet. Anybody out there baking bread on the road? Any hints to share? Adjustments for altitude?

wags999 · 03-15-2018, 08:30 PM

Good luck, ovens are extremely poor at baking. Hot spots, burner close to the bottom of the pans. Be sure to get an oven thermometer because the temp gauge on the oven is useless. Are you sure your dutch oven will fit?

Good luck...it will be a challenge at best.

bluegill1 · 03-15-2018, 10:09 PM

Because of the unevenness in RV ovens, I've heard that some lay a Pizza stone on the bottom shelf to help distribute heat more evenly.

tcanthonyii · 03-16-2018, 05:32 AM

Dutch oven you say? Get a camp style dutch oven and try your hand at baking with coals. You'd be surprised how even and how well you can control the temp. I can't imagine if it was 90+ degrees out and using the oven. It casts off a lot of heat.

WarrenG · 03-16-2018, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by tcanthonyii

Dutch oven you say? Get a camp style dutch oven and try your hand at baking with coals. You'd be surprised how even and how well you can control the temp. I can't imagine if it was 90+ degrees out and using the oven. It casts off a lot of heat.

I hadn't considered the heat inside the trailer during baking. Where we're going on this next trip we will be happy to have the heat. but I will keep that in mind during our warmer trips.

Duke4857 · 03-25-2019, 02:42 PM

I was just going to take the bread machine on a long trip. Other wise I would just make bread at home.

WeRJuliian · 05-19-2019, 03:08 PM

I just stumbled upon a recipe for slow-cooker bread, which I'm thinking of trying out on our next trip.

https://www.bakedbyanintrovert.com/slow-cooker-bread/

Has anyone tried this?

John H · 10-03-2019, 02:38 PM

We bought a Hamilton Beach bread machine to leave in the trailer, its great for longer trips and you can plug it in outside if you need to.

**norty1** · 10-03-2019, 03:59 PM

I was hoping to recoup some of my travel expenses!

Knottstravelers · 12-05-2020, 11:53 AM

I second trying your hand at baking over the coals in a dutch oven. I had been practicing at home in my fire pit but I finally got brave enough to make a loaf camping. Here is a picture of one of my loafs from this summer.

Jagiven · 12-05-2020, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Knottstravelers

I second trying your hand at baking over the coals in a dutch oven. I had been practicing at home in my fire pit but I finally got brave enough to make a loaf camping. Here is a picture of one of my loafs from this summer.

Looks good.

We make bread with the scouts fairly often. One of their favorites is monkey bread for desert.
I prefer to cook out side.

Knottstravelers · 12-06-2020, 05:46 PM

I make monkey bread in my Dutch oven quite often when we camp too. My extended family all love it. I also prefer outdoor cooking while camping.

Topperace · 12-06-2020, 05:59 PM

Our bread machine works great and reduces heat that would otherwise be generated
with the RV oven.

FishNFarm · 03-08-2021, 08:19 PM

The first time I saw campfire first Dutch Oven cooking was at Cowboy Morning on the rim of the Pala Duro Canyon at a Jeep Jamboree. I highly recommend both of those activities. Those folks fixed breakfast for 155 people. They had at least 20 of those giant 14" Dutch ovens stacked 4 high baking hamade biscuits. I did not see anything burned or over done. The hammer forged frypan they cooped bacon in was about 4 ft. in diameter And when the bacon was done this little cutie about 5 ft. tall latch both hands on the handle to keep it on the grill and it looked like they poured a gallon of scrambled eggs in it and two more people were stirring the pot. For dinner that night in the bottom of the Canyon we had Rib eye stakes mashed potatoes, green beans and home made yeast rolls. I don't about everybody else's steak but mine was perfect. When they finished the rolls they started in on peach, apply and cherry cobbler in those same ovens. Well that did me in. As soon as we got back home I had me a 10" and a 12" oven and trying to learn the trade. Those people threw a bunch of mesquite logs in a big pit to make the coals. I used the instructions to light the oak logs that I had. And I just threw coals over and under until I quit burning stuff. It was 2 years later when I got a Dutch oven cook book for Christmas before I learned about heat management. I got pretty good making breakfast at the deer lease biscuits and mountain breakfast. I said all of that to say. You can make anything in a campfire dutch oven that you can in a stove oven.

TaftCoach · 03-08-2021, 09:04 PM

A thermometer is a must. Rotating the Dutch oven throughout the cook time becomes tricky and must be balanced with the resulting temperature fluctuations. My guess is your experience and skill will overcome any deficiencies in the oven.

Debdon Journeys · 03-08-2021, 09:48 PM

Saddle on up and mosey on over to YouTube land and check out a fella by the name of Kent Rollins. I watched a lot of people on how to take care of cast iron but only after watch him did I throw my Grandma's Griswold in the wood stove to burn off the flaking old seasoning my mom didn't season it right. It is the most prized possession I have, I believe it was originally my great grandmothers. Anyway point is that I trust what he says I met him at a show that he was demonstrating and giving a class, I have made a lot of his recipes and they are good cept I don't do too much hot stuff I tend to leave that stuff out or use less. Good luck and we will see you down the RV'ing, cast iron cooking trail

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