Cooking For Engineers

good food · Guest

I really like this site.

my question is i have only a two burner stove top. a skillet, a 8 liter pot, a 3 liter pot, and a 1 liter pot only. no toaster oven. no grill. no nothing. is there anywhere to "bake" bread or cookeies?

thanks a lot.

jas

Auspicious · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject:

Bread is pretty easy - use a pressure cooker with the gasket removed or a dutch oven on top of the burner.

Cookies are interesting. I haven't made cookies in an alternative oven. It should work as for bread, but the surface area means half-a-dozen cookies per batch. Not efficient. Maybe layers with some sort of metal plates to separate the layers? Not sure.

good food · Guest

the problem is i have no dutch oven or pressure cooker. i only have one pot with a lid that has a hole in it the other pots don't have lids.

maybe i can line it with foil paper?

thanks for any suggestions

Dude111 · Joined: 23 Sep 2010 Posts: 147

Now thats interesting......

Can a stove,etc get as hot as you need to make cookies??

Im not sure about that........ But wrapping tin foil ALWAYS HELPS contain the heat and make things hotter.......

yocona · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 47

Dilbert · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: central PA

>>remotely similar results using conduction.

so why do cookies brown on the bottom?

yocona · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 47

Because when your oven is on Bake, the heat is coming from the elements at the bottom of the oven.

Dilbert · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: central PA

>>the heat is coming from the elements at the bottom of the oven.

so it convects through the cookie sheet?

yocona · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 47

Dilbert · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: central PA

well, here's what happens when you bake....

whether the heat comes from the bottom or top&bottom or convection fan stream depends on the make & model & modes of the oven. blanket statements do not apply.

ovens involve convection, conduction and radiant heat.

the air does the convection part

the air makes thing inside the oven get hot and if they are in contact with the food object that provides conduction.

hot surfaces radiate heat - not to mention an "exposed" element - not all ovens have their heating elements "hidden" - radiant heat impinges on either the food object and cooks it, of if the food is inside an opaque container, the container heats up and that results in conduction&convection inside a (closed) container.

curryman · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 8

Fill the 8 litre pot with several inches of coarse salt. Stir the salt and heat it till very hot. You can bake bread but it won't brown( just blondish ), cookies are fine as well as thin sponges. In fact the sponges turn out really moist.

A tip - place aluminium foil, folded 2 - 3 layers over the pot before covering. This helps to retain heat. The heat source, of course, is kept on throughout.

techmon · Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Posts: 3

in the summer you can make cookies inside your car. set it up before work and come back to warm cookies afterwards. amazing

prscanhfu829 · Joined: 06 Oct 2011 Posts: 1

in olden days there were no oven but they baked breads so there must be a way to bake without ovens in a more practical way.

Dude111 · Joined: 23 Sep 2010 Posts: 147

Indeed there must be!!!!! (Stuff was more advanced then most are aware of way back)

Here are 13 ways Smile

http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2010/07/13-ways-to-cook-without-oven.html

Welcome to the site Smile

jqueeng02 · Joined: 18 Oct 2011 Posts: 17

Maybe you should just buy a broiler it's much cheaper than real oven.