A.P. - I've just got to say, you are SO freakin' polite, the way you refer to your viewers as "ladies and gentlemen" but in this video, when you said "please excuse my videotography" it just made me chuckle. 😄, I love watching your "How To" videos. Informative and entertaining. 👍
I found myself with out potatoes and out of instant potatoes oh my goodness the SHTF. I improvised and used a box of that corn bread on top of my shepherds pie. Believe it or not it was pretty good!!
During hard times in North Carolina Dogs were only fed corn bread. They love it. Hush puppies. These folks loved their dogs. They lived on the back porch. Not like today. No money for vets. Poor people..
After spending 3/4 century in NC, born on a share-cropper farm, please let me reassure you that dogs were fed more than cornbread by poor folks. There's a fable that goes around about why fried bits of corn pone are called hushpuppies. It was thrown to them to keep them quiet. Responsible of owners took care of their dogs, as best they could, which means that dogs got more than cornmeal & some grease. Our dogs were fed, just like our chickens and pigs were fed with a variety of foods/feeds. Often in the case of dogs, they ate as good as we did. Our dogs loved Mama's biscuits, too. :-) All sorts of foods were cooked for the dogs as as raw meat, when available. I know, nutrition for pets is looked at much differently today. I'm just telling you what responsible poor folks did when I was growing up. As to vets, poor people have to make a choice between caring for the people in the family or pets. While my father did call in a vet, from time to time, he also had to make the hard decision to put down a much beloved animal because he didn't have the money to do otherwise. Nor could he justify the expense based on what else had to be given up to pay the bill.
@@oldtimerlee8820 In Roanoke Rapids, people are very poor in the thirty’s thru the fifties, My father had to work at age 12 to buy jeans.(1942j. Dirt poor farmers all over . Cotton mill paid little. My Dad left town for the Air Force.(1951). Sending money to feed his parents every month. In this town,dogs were lucky to eat. And I worked the fields as I got older in N.C.(1966)) Cutting corn for the pigs or digging potatoes with a mule. Have a Great Day.
@@charlieporch3181 Quote: "In this town,dogs were lucky to eat." I can't speak for Halifax County. In my rural county in central NC, most people who couldn't adequately feed dogs, didn't keep them. BTW.... My parents lived through the Great Depression. I was born before the end of WWII. Spent my time in the fields as soon as I became old enough to use a hoe. Remember well, the days of using mules, especially when harvesting tobacco and hauling wood from the woods. One of my chores was to feed them every afternoon, along with our cow. We could probably compare notes on many topics. Hope you have a nice evening, as well.
I bought myself a new Coleman dual fuel stove and this oven for my birthday this summer, but haven’t used them yet. This was a great how-to and I need to get out my Jiffy mixes and give this a try. Walmart even sells mini muffin pans that fit six muffins. I think my mother used to add a bit of sugar and some canned corn (drained) to the mix when I was a kid. We thought Jiffy was gourmet stuff.
I found an accessory set of cookware for an electric toaster oven that fits my Colman oven. Also found a pizza stone for it. Thanks for the idea of drained corn. I can't use Jiffy Mix (sigh) because of the sodium. Need to experiment with some DIY lower sodium versions. I'll add your corn comment to whatever I come up with. Thanks!!!
Rudy that oven is wonderful, my Mom would bake pies and roasting a turkey at the beach while we camped, people would put their noses in the air and howl!🌴😎👵🏼🙏
I found a pizza stone at a thrift store that fits my Coleman oven perfectly. It helps with maintaining the temp and evenness of the heat in the oven. Use it on a Coleman stove when camping.
I remember my mom using a Colman oven when we we camping. That was back in the early to mid 70's, before we got a small camper that actually had a 3 burner range and small oven. She always used the Jiffy corn bread mix, and when camping and she wanted to make a cake, it was a Jiffy mix, and their icing mix too.
I only like sweet cornbread in vegetable soup, but Jiffy is already QUITE sweet. Seeing you add more sugar, I was like 😱 Hehe! I use Jiffy sometimes when I make vegetable soup, but usually I make my cornbread from scratch with no sugar. I make it in a cast iron skillet. I put a little oil or butter on my skillet, put it in the oven while it’s preheating, and pour my batter into the screaming hot pan. It sizzles when it goes in, and makes a really brown, crispy crust. Yum! I like eating it with milk like cereal, and my husband likes his with buttermilk.
Wasn't that called corn pone? My grandma used to make corn pone and we'd put milk over. Yummy. I love sweet "Yankee" cornbread. When I moved south, they rarely add sugar, but I always do add to mine.
If youve never had it try cornbread casserole you mix the cornbread mix with a can of cream of corn and a can of reg corn and maybe just a couple more simple things and it is so good you eat it with a spoon.
I have a Coleman Dual fuel stove and lantern which I use when camping and use with unleaded petrol as fuel. Solidly built, cheap to run and excellent products. I tend not to use the lantern these days as a battery pack and cheap LED camping lights do the job better but the stove always gets used on trips.
We use Jiffy mix also. We add 1 teaspoon of sugar for just a slight sweetness. We also melt a tablespoon of butter in the cooking vessel while oven is preheating. Then swirl it around bottom and sides and add the mix. This gives an extra crunchy crust. Pairs perfectly with any bean dish. Beans have most of the proteins your body needs to grow and develop. Corn has most of the proteins your body needs to grow and develop. Together they provide ALL of the needed proteins. God prepared the world to meet the needs of His children even before he created us. Thank you God, for the earth and all your provisions. Thank you Alaska Prepper for this video.
I have to say I really like your recent videos. I think this is exactly what people want to see, kind of show and tell. Real life examples. Keep them coming, great job.
AP, We have city gas and a gas range stove. When we built our home we had a gas line ran to attach to our gas grill outside so we wouldn’t need to trade out propane tanks. I have baked cornbread in my gas grill during summer months because I don’t like turning on my stove for just a small batch. Yummy
Rebecca Stanley you better remember that city gas does not mater if we go into a shtf the gas is not giving to flow I don’t care where you are the pump compressors will not be working lmao
Gavin Church That’s not a very nice comment. What does shft mean? My thought is if nothing is working and it’s that bad we will all be looking to end our lives not cooking.
Rebecca, interesting replies to your comment. :-) Yes, a lot of folks don't realize that a covered grill makes a great oven. Bake the Thanksgiving turkey in the grill and the pumpkin pies in the kitchen oven at the same time. I don't live near a gas line. Over the years, we've converted our "Totally Electric" home over to propane. Love our 6 burner gas stove. Sure makes canning easier. Switched our furnace to propane & plan to do the same thing when we have to replace our water heater. Haven't hooked our propane grill into the house gas line because I like the move ability. And, I like having 20 lb propane cylinders as a backup. Plus, I use them with our Camp Chef stove for waterbath canning on the backporch, in the summer. As to Gavin's comment, SHTF - polite meaning: When Stuff Hits The Fan. Yes, it means that in some disaster situations *natural gas will not be flowing.* Definitely not something that people would laugh about. Yes, it can happen. Earthquakes can take out the pipeline that services your area. Tornadoes can take out above ground lines. Floods can do the same. How many lines cross the Mississippi? Fire that destroys some facility infrastructure along the route to your home. Same thing if applicable high transmission power lines and/or substations are destroyed by hurricane, or the other natural disasters mentioned. *We can put alternative cooking methods in place.* What we do, depends on where we are and our budget. An easy and cheap one is to make an alcohol stove from a Fancy Feast cat food can. Store a bottle of 70% iso alcohol and a BIC lighter. Easy to heat a can of soup. (There are many other ways to start a fire, as well.) A brass Trangia alcohol stove is inexpensive,if you don't want to DIY. Other options: * Campfire in the backyard - Cowboy cooking style or for stealth & fuel conservation a Dakota Fire pit. * Colman (or equivalent) Camp stoves and either liquid or propane fuel * Rocket Stove (wood) - I chose the SilverFire Survivor because I can cook and pressure can food on it. * Cast Iron Box Stove - I have a castiron wood burning box stove in my shop that has 2 burners. * Hobo stove made from a food can, uses wood. * Sterno Stove with stored fuel * Butane Stove with stored fuel * Fondue pot with burner & chafing fuel * Esbit style folding stove with fuel tabs and/or tea light candles * Solar: I have a vintage 3 burner kerosene cook stove & and stored fuel. Many folks have DIY or purchased Solar Cookers that only need the sun to cook everything from soup to nuts. * Charcoal Grill with stored briquettes, lump and the potential to use DIY charcoal. * Separate propane grill with stored 20 lb or larger tanks . (I have 2 l00-lb in addition to 20 lb. ones) I don't know if a burner (or orifice) change is needed if you switch your grill from natural gas to propane. BTW, Some of the stoves, mentioned above, can use wood pellets, usually available at places like Tractor Supply. Being self-reliant and independent means we will look toward to overcoming whatever the situation may be, which includes cooking to give us the strength to do so. The more we prepare, to the extent we can, the more we take, even the thought of the unthinkable off of our "option" list. Do think about alternative means to heat a can of soup, if natural gas is no longer available for whatever reason.
After you get the bottom of the oven locked in, lay it on its left or right side as you fold the top out. The tabs tend to go into their slots with a lot less fiddling with alignment, in my experience. This oven becomes an even more versatile grid down tool when you use it on an open fire or a bed of coals. You can't just stick it in the fire or on the coals because the smoke will get inside the oven and taint whatever you are baking, but.... if you have some scrape sheet metal, like an old VCR chassis, you can put that on the coals and the oven on top of it and manage to bake with a wood fire. Really enjoy you videos and your approach to instruction.
The corn muffin mix is something I store quite a bit of. Have oven canned some of it and packed some away with oxy absorbers and some just on the shelf. Make the corn storage go farther or while waiting on corn crop
I just baked a Betty Crocker yellow cake mix today (just to see if it was still good) with a use by date of August 2015. It cooked amazingly and was delicious. I was shocked! My kids devoured it.
I love my camp chef oven/burner combo! I’ve had it for years and used it camping, at relay for life and other charity events. This is a must have for prepping as far as I’m concerned! But, having said that...this Coleman option is much more portable.
DFRANCK2001, depends on how you want to use it and if the expense can be justified. I bought a used 4 burner w/oven RV stove from a salvage yard for a few bucks. Used it in a DIY camper. I achieved the same function with a thrift store propane Colman Camp stove and a new Colman oven for less than $50. And, what's more important to me I can also use that Colman oven over our SilverFire Survivor wood fired rocket stove, the castiron woodstove in my shop, propane side burner on my BBQ grill and more heat sources. Including a Colman vintage 3 burner camp fuel burning stove. *Oven plus 2 burners.* Haven't tried to roast a turkey breast. Small one may fit. (?) The Colman will handle a Cornish hen, maybe 2 (?) and a small chicken. Can do a pork roast, sweet potatoes, coconut pie, biscuits and even pizza with the stone I bought for it. I keep my Colman oven in the original box, so I can tuck it into a cabinet or a camping tote between uses. The electric toaster oven accessories that I bought for it are still useful when the Colman is in its box. Again, with either the Camp Chef or the Colman, *value* depends on how you want to use them, along with cost vs benefit derived. Each has their own set of pros & cons.
I bought that oven years ago. It's very easy to put together, uses very little storage space, and operates great. It's also a very reasonable price. A+ I add sugar too. 👍😀. Love sweet cornbread and corner pieces. Had to laugh when you talked about the crunchy corner. 😋. Great video, AP. Now I want some cornbread. 😄. Blessings to you & the family. 💙
I use jiffy also & put a little sugar in too. I also use it to make corn pudding, yummy. I have a Coleman camp stove, never have used it yet but I think I would use that oven👍😄❤️
You can make a box oven using a cardboard oven lined in heavy duty aluminum , make a shelf and use aluminum pan with charcoal. Doesn’t cost much and works great.
Thanks AP. Cornbread is good with so many things! Glad your friends got you some at a great price. That makeshift oven looks like it does the trick too! Awesome.😊👍
Blessings AP! How funny you did this video today as I just opened and baked that same kind box of cornbread earlier today. I took a chance because I've had several different kinds of the Jiffy mixes sitting here for the past 8 years. The cornbread came out just as great as when I first bought the mixes. We also have that camp oven but today I used our house oven. I also add sugar to the mix but I use 1 1/2 TBLS Whey Low brown sugar instead of white. Have a great rest of your day! Gods blessings to all!
I layer taco meat, bbq, or something similar to make it a meal. My family really likes the taco - just spoon the seasoned beef, cheese (so it melts) than tomatoes, lettuce, and/or sour cream based on their preferences. It is a big hit!
That's a great little oven, but be aware of 2 things... 1) the thermometer isn't very accurate so you really should get an extra oven thermometer and use that, and 2) that oven loses a lot of heat, but you can cover it with a welding blanket or an upside-down roasting pan to conserve your heat/fuel.
Great vid. My sister has had one of those ovens for "20" yr.s , her's is an original made in America version . last yr. I found one like yours that is made in China in a 2nd hand store ; still a very good piece of equipment but not quit the same. I don't use a microwave oven , check that , my minny house has one built in and it is my spice cabinet, this oven is my microwave , baked potatoes ect with out heating up the whole house as a lot of times it is used out side . It is a great tool . Very efficient . Gary likes it! And you Alaska Prepper.
I was watching the price of these earlier last year and I wasn’t interested years back when it was cheap but I eventually bought one at $50 because it seemed that the price kept rising. While at a garage sale a few months later I found one still in the box for $6! One of my relatives asked me about my extra one but no, I like back ups to my back ups, so I’m keeping both of them! Thank you for this video.
I have used mine on the wood burning stove. It has even harder to get it up and keep it up to temp. That being said I have made bread and it works perfectly.
Yes, a Colman camp oven will work on top of a wood stove. It will work on a wood fired rocket stove, such as the SilverFire Survivor. It will work over a small campfire, but I wouldn't recommend it due to the smoke/soot that can get inside of the oven.
Try this with ur cornmeal OK its really good too I do this with fish n chicken and pork chops dipped in jiffy cornmeal but if skin on fish n chicken I remove it first dipp it in eggs or milk the dip in ur cornmeal but spice it the cornmeal first on what ever spices u like the most u can fry it or bake it it comes out so tender and great tasting too try it once see how u like it
I also have some powdered milk and powdered eggs on hand so I can make sure I can cook some Jiffy cornbread. I also use this Jiffy cornbread batter to coat my Okra then fry it. It give the Okra a sweeter taste. Very good. I vacuum sealed some Jiffy Corn Bread (love this stuff) in Mylar bags apx. 7 months ago. The Mylar bags are blowing up like a balloon. Thankfully, AP recently advised us about this sort of thing. I'm going to open them up and see if they are ok and if so, I will re-seal them again with oxygen absorbers. Thanks AP.
I’ve used my Coleman camping oven for many years and it can be difficult to regulate the heat when outside. Something that’s worked for me is to place an unglazed terra-cotta tile or cast iron trivet inside the oven before preheating. This helps keep a more even heat. I sometimes use aluminum foil or a fire blanket to cover over the top and keep heat from escaping. I’ve baked muffins and cookies even on a windy day with these modifications. I’ve also melted the top of a plastic table my propane stove was sitting on because the oven heat deflected down. 🤪
I want to buy one of those ovens but it appears they are out of stock right now. Hopefully they will be back soon! I think they would be great in the summer outside so the house doesn't heat up.
I add into the mix , 1 can of creamed corn . OMG , so good !!! I also line the bread pan w foil , it cooks better that way , plus it saves on cleaning the pan and the foil is very good to wrap up for later , when later comes , I butter both sides of a piece and toast. on the woodstove , crispy and a big YUMMM !!!! ✌
I always use 2 boxes adding 2 eggs and 2/3 cup of milk. I use same size pan as you did. Makes a thicker cornbread that is do good split in 1/2 with butter when still hot! Love that Coleman oven.
Hey Alaska pepper! I have same little camp oven I bought a small baking stone to put on bottom of the oven . you'll have more even heat and use less propane. Thanks for video share!
I've used the same oven on top of my wood stove, no power or gas can still bake. Also cornbread in a cast iron skillet is the best. Add a little oil in the skillet and let it get hot, pour the mix in and you'll have some good crunchy crust.
The way I see it is that if Walmart and any other company that sells it has it stored inside their store so it should be o.k. to store inside the home; but that is my opinion...
Do you have a porch closet? Does your balcony have the means and privacy for a plastic footlocker or similar box? You can keep plants on it like a table to be less obvious.
@@esthergrace7645 Lived in my apartment for 9 yrs. and the manager saw I had small propane tanks in a closet about 7 yrs. ago and made me get rid of them. Can't have anything flammable in the apartment or storage unit so I gave them to my daughter. No wish or room to store them in my car.😊
You may have even bigger liability if you store them in your vehicle and have a traffic accident. Especially, if that fuel contributes an injury to someone else. (Liability will also depend on the laws of your state.) I have no problem bringing home 1 lb canisters of propane in my car. But, I won't store them there. The more miles driven with them the higher the %/odds of problem goes. Plus, I'd be afraid of the heat buildup in summer. Do you have a friend that could keep them in a garage or storage shed? Do you have a place, outside, for a storage box? I know there are small ones made for patios and decks that are supposed to be weatherproof and can be secured. Alcohol or kerosene stoves may be an alternative. There are table top kerosene stoves designed for cooking. My personal opinion is that I wouldn't have any problem storing a few of either in my home. Store away from heat, children, moisture in a small quantity. That said, because I own my own home. I don't know what you may have signed with your apt lease.
I really enjoy your style. There is a nice flow to your videos. You are, one of the very few, that I turn my volume, on for. Thanks for keeping it real. Many blessings to you and yours! Keep up the good work!
if you don't get all 4 tabs in the top and bottom into their slots the cooking grate can fall out. that's the biggest complaint these ovens have and it's always due to operator error. other than that, it's a great little oven that works really well. if the bottom warps it's because you were not patient and used too much heat to get the oven up to temp too quickly, again an operator error issue and not a fault of the product. when you pack up the oven you put the cooking grate up against the door from the inside with the door open, then unlatch the top, fold it down to hold the grate in place inside the packed-up oven. difficult to describe but once you've done it it becomes really easy to do.
I make the box corn bread the same way. I have also used boxes of Jeffy corn bread mix 4 years pass due date. I really like the blueberry muffins. I add frozen blueberries to it. I have a Coleman oven it works really good. Had it for years. God bless you and your family ❣️🙏🤗
That's why I watch prepper videos everyday. I didn't know they made that corn bread in vegetarian. I like making it with chili while camping, but you need egg. I don't eat eggs and hoped to find a different way.
Yup... I found that mix made a very thin "corn Bread"... more like a cracker. I'd use 2 boxes or add an egg. I have wanted one of those ovens since your first review of them way back. They work great on wood stoves and the coals of an open grill or chiminea also! Long ago I had one of the first, very small models. Soon... I'm catching up a bit. Much love from Ma 2.
I always thought of these as pie stoves, to fit on top of a burner on a wood burning stove. A little canned cream corn tasted good in your cornbread too, keeps it moist and adds an nice corn taste. Nice video, well presented and explained. I have two ovens like these, one is insulated and rather large, and one is about this size. The one I have that is about this size - not a folding one - works better than the bigger insulated one, go figure. Well I'm not sure if it works better, it gets hotter. You should try cooking this in a small brownie pan, for extra crispy brown sides.
I have learned a lot of things through trial and error and asking for advice. I love to help others learn something new. Briquettes each give off so many degrees it does very some because of ambient temperature.
