"Allan Adler" > wrote in message
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>
> N.Thornton described a way to make your own stove top oven and answered
> some of my questions about it, but I am still confused about it.
>
> I was contemplating an arrangement of the following sort:
> Take a large, deep cast iron sauce pan, put a wok base inside it,
> set a small cookie sheet (I've never actually seen them so smalll)
> or aluminum pie plate on the wok base, cover it and heat it on the
> stove to preheat. Then put dough in the cookie sheet or pie plate,
> cover and heat it.
>
> Is that an acceptable oven? And is this really better than a toaster oven?
>
> I just did a google search for "stovetop oven". One of the hits is
> http://www.asseenontvandmore.com/baistov.html
> which sells one for about $30. I don't know if they are any good for
> baking bread or rolls nor whether they are any better than any of the
> other options we've mentioned for baking without a conventional oven.

I would get an electric roaster before trying to rig a stove top oven. I
think it would be more satisfactory and far less dangerous. Here is an
example:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html...sin=B0000A6037