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Can any-one tell me if there are any makes of oven to avoid as I seem to remember some mrmbers saying some are not worth installing?.....Many thanks ..Martin
 

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My Hymer has a Dometic Tec tower and the oven is the most useless of all other ovens.

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Our Dometic tec tower oven is good for cooking par baked bread and also good for pizza as it does get hot
One thing to consider is that not all versions include a grill - ours is oven only, which I suspect gives more room in the oven
It doesn't compare with a 'proper' one - but it's pretty reasonable
It's certainly better than the built under oven that we had in the old van - as the control knobs got red hot whenever the grill was used
 
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We opted not to have one in our new Exsis and bought a Remorska from Alza .co.uk. Haven't missed main oven at all and got an extra cupboard.

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we have a Dometic tec tower and the oven is virtually useless (y)

@DavidG58 beat me to it. We also have the Dometic Tec Tower with oven incorporated and it's even worse than useless.
Stef.

Mmmm!... Mine is small ( oven/grill - that is!.. ) sat above freezer!.. but have used it in anger a few times... And it met my expectations - for it's size...

Whilst it may be shite for cooking a Turkey for 12... It cooks stuff for four adequately ... ( in a camping situ)... If one knows wot 1 means :)

Edit: oh and by the way ... I am a professional chef ... ! :pinocchio:
 
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We opted not to have one in our new Exsis and bought a Remorska from Alza .co.uk. Haven't missed main oven at all and got an extra cupboard.

Prefer to have the added cupboard space, any day.

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We don't have an oven in the present van, didn't have one in the last van and won't have one in the next. I rarely use the oven at home as I can use the slow cooker for almost anything I would do in the oven. Including bread!

(but not oven chips, although we don't eat them often. Chips are a treat and bought from the chippy!)
 
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  1. Hello all , OH insisted on an oven , two years on and we are changing our MH and lots of decisions on what equipment ,weight etc, decided we only used the over,grill to make toast !, Personally believe oven is not a necessity , prefer space weight allowance ,,but we do live and MH in France .Enjoy your time and eat out whenever possible.
 

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The one in our Dethleffs is next to useless. It can manage oven chips and a pizza but anything else would be a waste of good food. Burns at the back and raw at the front, so unless you remember to keep turning the food round it's rubbish. Although it is branded Dethleffs I believe it is a Cramer. We use it as an extra cupboard, unless having pizza.

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Interesting comment from Robert, no grill could make a big difference, could also be his is much newer, you really would like to think Dometic would address such obvious issues

I would not expect to cook a Sunday dinner, but part baked bread in ours will burn one end and be uncooked the other, that is on top, put it on the lower level (that is the bottom of the oven in fairness) and it will come out exactly the same as it goes in after half an hour :)

we used to carry a ready meal, something like macaroni cheese or ravioli, to put in oven to reheat, now tip out into pan and heat on hob (y)
 

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we have a Dometic tec tower and the oven is virtually useless (y)
The one in our last van was totally useless, the new version in current van is better, but still useless.

We opted not to have one in our new Exsis and bought a Remorska from Alza .co.uk. Haven't missed main oven at all and got an extra cupboard.
Good decision.

It's better than nothing, as @Robert Clark says good for par-baked bread, also OK for ready meals providing you nearly double the cooking time. The grill is just a waste of space.
 

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For the life of me I cannot remember whether ours is a Thetford, or Dometic, but it is perfectly adequate. We have even roasted a Chicken in it!

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Can any-one tell me if there are any makes of oven to avoid as I seem to remember some mrmbers saying some are not worth installing?.....Many thanks ..Martin
No :)

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We had ovens in our earlier vans (British built) and a later Rimor (top spec one hence the oven) but since then have only had Smev grills, or as with our current PVC none at all. The Smev grills are awful - they take ages to warm up to anything like a usable temperature then burn everything in sight if you blink! We used ours simply to keep the frying pans in! Unless you really, really want an oven I'd avoid them as they take up a lot of space and consume a fair bit of gas too.
 

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Have a Smev grill which is so useless that it is just used as a cupboard! The Remoska is versatile & effective as a replacement for an oven but do need to be on hook up. Still looking for a double skillet type pan to "bake" on gas but don't want food in contact with aluminium (use steel tin or rack in Remoska) so ideally tri-ply or stainless steel.

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Have a Smev grill which is so useless that it is just used as a cupboard! The Remoska is versatile & effective as a replacement for an oven but do need to be on hook up. Still looking for a double skillet type pan to "bake" on gas but don't want food in contact with aluminium (use steel tin or rack in Remoska) so ideally tri-ply or stainless steel.
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Wombles

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Thanks for the idea @Minxy Girl - have looked at the Omnia before but food in contact with aluminium so not for us :(
 

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Prob no help, But to save using our van oven, as we have to cater for several at race meetings we bought a £30.00 pound oven from Lidl to use in the awning thinking if it done one season it would save a lot of going in & out of the van, 3 seasons later its still going, Mrs D thinks its great & doesn't take up much space.

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Dave and Ginny

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Am I missing something here? What's with the aluminium thing?

What ever the answer, if it's Teflon coated as with a Remoska, wheres the problem?

Just asking like.
 

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Another thumbs down for the Dometic tec tower. Useless at cooking evenly and the infamous door hinges! Remoska much better IF you are on mains.
 

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Slight sideways move as there seems to be a few ovens out there that are no good - as you asked for, may I make a plee for FITTING the Thetford Duplex if you are going down the oven fitting route. Had one in the folding camper and cooked all sorts in it and have one in the MH now and going great so far.

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