Bread Baking Trial

We love camping in remote areas, the experience is quite amazing however there are a few things that I do miss being away from civilization. One treat in particular that I miss is fresh bread, so I decided to find a way to make fresh bread in the middle of nowhere.

Now I know that the traditional way is to use a cast iron camp oven sometimes called a dutch oven, in a camp fire. However finding and chopping up enough firewood to bake a loaf of bread is quite an effort, not to mention that in arid areas what little dead wood that can be found is often a habitat for some poor organism trying to maintain it's place in an pretty tough ecosystem.

The solution came in the form of a small oven that sits on top of our camping stove, it's great because when it's not in used it folds up and takes up very little space.

My Dad is a legend cook and he bakes a mean loaf of bread so I sought some advice from him and gave it a trial run today. It's really quite easy and I was pretty pleased with the results. It's a bit tricky to get the temperature right but once it's right it works a treat.

My first effort was a wholemeal loaf and it turned out great. Looks like fresh bread in the desert here we come.

Who said camping was roughing it.

Jo was very happy to come home to freshly baked bread.

And as requested here is a pic of the oven folded up.