Do you really need an oven?

I  may  be  very  flexible  in  some  respects,  Young  Feller-me-lad,  but  should  I  ever  manage  in  the  future  to  do  such  things,  you'll  know  I've  done  it  from  the  ear-splitting  screams  from  my  direction  !!

I use the oven in my caravan regularly and wouldn’t buy a caravan without one. I use the microwave on every trip. To store bread in!

We have a Halogen Oven which we use , as our Motorhome only has  a small  grill and oven combined it works fine for us .

It really depends where you travel.   We recently swapped our Adria Twin SP, without an oven for an Autosleeper Kingham which does have one.       We hate barbeques and use the oven a lot.     In a PVC with the big door open you are almost outside anyway.

When we did a big trip to Norway, Sweden and Finland, mostly wildcamping inside the Arctic circle we used the oven a lot including cooking partbaked bread and rolls.   It also helped to keep us warm.

We tent-camped for years without an oven but are very pleased to have one again.

Microwave in ours, and a cadac bbq for outside and the option to plug in a slo-cooker externally. Dont miss the conventional oven one bit.

Pete, nice one, hadnt even considered using the slow cooker outside...

generally, when we are cooking outside, it's in a hot place....our slow cooker tends to do casseroles etc, perhaps we can widen the menu?

secondly, it's also something we put on inside when out for a winter walk or cycle. if it were outdoors, I would have thought it might get nicked, especially if a much nicer one than our cheap, small one lol

We camp off grid as much as possible , we use the cadac weather permitting or onboard cooker including the oven .

When on hookup love to usebthe slow cooker too.

And  afterwards  you  could  re-proof  your  wax  socks 

We gave up on an oven many years ago despite the 'van at the time having one. Too much work involved so we took our combination microwave along so that we could bake the part baked bread we take with us. Our 'van we last had, a Burstner, being continental make did not have an oven and having just changed to a motorhome without one but to us this was no loss. However, the problem with our MH is where to put the microwave as it is too large for any where to sensibly place it. The MH is a short 6.0metres in length (to fit on our drive). I will just have to be inventive!

We have used the slow cooker outside a great deal in previous years.  A while back we had to spend a month near Edinburgh early in the year for medical treatment.  We found that the slow cooker worked astonishingly well outside on the ground even through there was settling snow.  Why outside?  My wife dislikes cooking smells and the slow cooker takes up space.

Thank you to all of you for help and advice on this issue.  We are now working towards a motorhome with no microwave - not a good idea with a pacemaker anyway - and no oven.  We will use the gas burner hob and our Remoska outside.