SC - Coleman oven

[Laura C. Minnick]

allilyn at juno.com wrote:

> side that over-browned.  A large wind screen might help, as well as the
> aluminum foil wrap for the corners that (Brandu?) suggested.  Seumas, can
> you make a wind screen from sheets of aluminum, possible hinged for easy
> transport?

I think sealing off gaps for air to blow in or hot air to seep out with
foil would be the quickest and easiest improvement. As for windscreens,
I think the weakest point on the heat chain is from the burner upwards
to the oven resting on the stove rack. Some ideas I have at the moment
is to either cut down a #10 can (the big ones) so it sits around the
burner, sits on the drip pan, and is high enough to support the oven at
the normal height (and remove the usual stove rack: easier than cutting
lots of appropriate slots*) so the flame is screened from any cross
wind. I don't _think_ over heating the drip pan/can/stove will occur as
the heat and flame as a path to flow up into and through the stove (as
opposed to a solid and horizontal pan bottom). I have a small wok base
that I use inverted on my Coleman (wider base upwards) that might serve
much the same purpose, except that it does have vent holes cut into it.
It might be advisable to drill a few vent holes into the can ring _on
one side_, the side you can position _away_ from the wind, to allow some
air to draw into the flame.

Actually, an aluminium 'windscreen' of a second box that fits over the
oven with a 1/2 space between would really help by providing a
insulating dead air space around the oven (rather than even the softest
breeze blowing away the air around the oven that has been warmed by
conduction, replacing it with cooler air that draws more heat away.)

I am also contemplating trying to build a rectangular oven to fit over
my stamped metal gas grill (one of those cheap ones with lava rock over
the 'H' shaped gas burner.) 
> 
> Possibly, the over-browned side was next to another burner that was on,
> giving doubled heat to the oven on one side.

I doubt it. Too far away and as I recall, there was nothing on the stove
except the oven by that point.

Seumas