Cheap, Easy DIY Reflector Oven (Weighs only 3 Oz!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Here is a simple way to make your own inexpensive reflector oven for baking bread or other items when you are in the wilderness. Weighing about 3 oz., it is quite easily made from items you may have around your house or that can be purchased for less than $5 US. It is highly portable and reusable.
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The Bannock Recipe is:
3 cups of All-purpose flour
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons baking powder
1 Packet of Butter Buds (Dried Butter Flakes)
1and 1/4 cups of water
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Divide into 3 equal parts and
Put each 3rd into a Ziploc bag.
Each Ziploc will then need about
4 oz. of water each for the dough.
Knead in bag until dough is ready
Take out and bake until golden brown
Enjoy!
Pops forgot the recipe.
1 cup flour
2 tbs powder milk
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbs sugar
1 Tbs bacon grease ,Butter or olive oil ( you could substitute probably butter buds that you have in your recipe)
Optional I sometimes add raisins, dried cranberries and chopped walnuts or pecans I don't measure but I estimate maybe maybe about 1/8 cup of fruit and 1/16 cup of nuts.
Sounds delicious! Thanks for watching commenting and sharing the recipe!
As a retired head chef I'm still learning new things, many thanks
Maybe add some cinnamon and sugar to your recipe raisin bread
1/16 cup of nuts? That's about three nuts... Gotcha!
This is the kind of thing I miss when age and arthritis creeps up on you reducing you to a backyard camper well done 😊
Thanks!
That was kind of cool. You actually baked bread with reflected heat in an open container. You didn't even have to create a box or pot with a cover. Awesome.
Thank you!
Binder clips - man, whoever invented those things is GENIUS!
Indeed!
That's really cool .
You have more ways to cook things on your channel than I've ever seen, and every time I turn around, TH-cam is recommending you. One of us is very focused on cooking 😉 You always have great ideas for it! Edited to add: commercial solar ovens are ridiculously expensive!
Thank you for watching. I tried to come up with many ways to cook things so that whatever situation a person finds themselves in, they might be able to improvise something from the materials at hand.
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My mouth is watering and stomach is growling. I'm going to pan fry a batch. My wife is dead now but we used to make Bannock just because we liked it. Just my cat and me now. She likes a bite of bread now and then.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Thanks for watching the video and I'm glad you liked it!
Beautiful ! And a great idea! Love the fact that all your stuff is done with the budget in mind , some of us don’t have 200.00 to put into cooking gear .
Thanks so much!
I actually bake bread all the time over a camp fire. But I use a cast iron pot and tripod with a chain! I would never have guessed this would work, but it works very good!
Thank you for watching!
Just an FYI, when searching for the "Large Paperclips", if you type in "Binder Clips" you'll get a more refined selection for those particular type of clip.
Good point!
You have some really good ideas for poor people really I wish my dad could see this. He would love it.
Great, thanks for watching!
AMEN , great info !
Mtn Mel here, Ret.59-82 USN SERE Inst / PR . I learned how to make acorn flour from my wifes Indian family - SO , I use to make " ash cakes " ( I learned from Larry Dean Olsen ) for our Navy students.
THANKS ! Your Instructor techniques are 110 % right on !
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words!
I enjoy watching your videos thank you for not putting advertisements in place of content...
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James … I’ve been semi binge watching your TH-cam videos overnight; you provide a wealth of information and skills to novice and experts alike!!! I plan on trying this oven and my modified forced air stove this fall. Thank you for your excellent content!!! Me and mine wish you and yours all things great and good; take care, be safe and God bless!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas. 🤠👨🌾✝️🙏🐩
Thanks so much and God-bless you too!
This looks terrific. I will make one or more. I like that the campfire is the source of reflective heat for cooking. Reflective cooking in the dark or low sunlight doesn't worry me. Reflective cooking using the sun when it's very intense can be really dangerous. About ten years ago I bought two "solar cookers" that shipped directly from an overseas producer. They were dish shaped, on a stand with a pedestal in the middle of the dish which held the cookpot. It took me hours to assemble each one. Where I live, the UV index in summer is 14-15. The cooker was so bright I had to wear sunglasses to cook. That should have warned me. Before long I caught my clothes on fire just standing next to it. I "closed up shop" securing its protective cover (I thought). A few days later the wind lifted the edge of its cover, exposing only a bit of the metal to the sun. The cover caught fire and this spread. Dogs warned me. I was barely able to put out the fire with my garden hose. That cooker was so badly charred that we scrapped it. The other resides in a shed and someday may see the light of day again when the sun is very very dim.
Wow! One definitely is to be careful with the heat of the sun! Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I love your oven and love how you say a prayer before you eat god bless
Thank you for watching and God bless you too!
Thanks for the cool idea!
I think you could use this infront of a "Buddy heater" as well. Perhaps out ice fishing...🤔
Cool stuff! 👍👍
Very probably!
That's brilliant! I also use those clips to close up tarp shelters!! This channel is a blessing!#
Awesome! Thank you!
Love how you thanked the Lord for the bread.
Thank you. I am always thankful for my blessings!
The (lord)😂didn't buy the ingredients nor bake them.
Great idea and clearly explained 👍. Can't wait to try it out myself...
Thank you!
Pure genius. Sure beats expensive bulky stove you rarely use. I have seen people use foil for these, but your way is so much better. Impressive.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Simply Awesome video and demonstration! My mouth was watering as I watched you eat that bread! Can’t wait to do this! Thanks again for another great video!
Thank you, glad you liked it and found it useful!
Nice little project! The results looked great with the bread! Nice work as always James. God bless you brother!
Thank you, brother. And God bless you too!
Thank you for teaching me new skills. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and you're family and subscriber's. Happy Christmas 😊
Thanks so much and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
thanks for sharing, nice work - ps would be cool to see more about different fire lays and their advantages and disadvantages
Thank you for watching. Different fire lays are definitely a good thing to know.
Great video! I’m definitely going to be cooking some bread on my next backpacking trip
Great! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I love the little oven when I go creek fishing in the Autumn I have thermes I have stock pots I could make stew on a autumn day of steelhead fishing in Erie County Pennsylvania
Excellent!
Nice oven James. That bread turned out great. I purchased a reflector oven years ago. One of my favourite things to make is a large oatmeal muffin. I found that if you buy a muffin mix that is low fat, it’s a just add water. For your oven a small foil pan with some parchment paper “Might” work good. Only one way to find out 😂. Another item I want to make in the reflector oven is the coffee cup cakes that you make in the microwave. I’ve tried these in a small solar oven and they work good.
Thank you! I was wondering if I should put the bread on a small pan of some kind but I thought it might keep the heat from getting to the bottom of the bread efficiently. Those other ideas sound great! Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
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You might be able to use a little parchment paper directly on the rack just to support the bread. I made a pizza once and I used a small stainless steel plate as a pizza pan. This did not work, the top was perfect and the bottom didn’t cook.
Excellent brother, excellent demonstration! Looks like it worked great!
Thank you! It did and the bread was very tasty!
Love the channel, all these DIY cooking utensils and tips, love the energy and enthusiasm too 👍
I had a store bought reflector oven that cooked those betty crocker quick biscuits like a champ. I think I'll make this and give those a try again next time Im jonesing for some solitude.
Great, thanks for watching!
Back at ya ! 72' here in W. Colo. . - Beautiful t- shirt weather. Testing out your GRILL project at 7,000 ft. Ha. Really like your info- your style of exact teaching & demos ! We sure could have used you on our Navy SERE Team ! THANKS. Mtn Mel , Ret. 59-82, VN Advisor .
From the thumbnail I had in mind this was going to be a solar oven. This is even better, now I gotta try this!
Excellent! Glad you liked it!
That's an awesome little way of making Bread
Thanks!
Most excellent work young man, keep it coming... Surviving with stuff out of the Dollar General is just as important as wilderness foraging skills. You know just like you did with the hobo survival skills, you might consider a series on stealth camping from the homeless.
So cool to have a little oven! Love it!
Gonna try it. Been trying out different kinds of quick breads for camping. Yum! My grandson and I made a solar oven out of a windshield shade, (Texans all have solar windshield shades,) and the brownies came out great! It was quite an experience! Fun one too! Thanks for the good idea!
Thanks for watching!
Pretty cool. I had a store bought one a buddy gave me that was light and easy to set up. It worked but I misplaced it somewhere during my many moves and haven't found it yet. I don't think I would actually hike any distance with one since it takes too long to cook anything and when I was doing a lot of hiking my concern was with making as much distance as I could per day VS kicking it in camp for long periods other that to just get some sleep. I went through a lot of bannock when I hiked the PCT but I just twisted it on a stick, stuck the stick in the ground next to my fire and rotated it as necessary until it was done. Just faster that way so I could get to bed. When I do some truck camping with my shooting buddies though I have a piece of a big commercial pizza oven pizza stone I take out and I use it here on my homestead for making pizzas outdoors particularly when it is too hot to cook indoors. I have a big 16 inch cast iron skillet I found in the trash some years ago that the handle had broken off of. I ground what was left of the handle off and brazed a piece of rebar bent into a loop on the bottom of it so I could use it upside down as a lid with a handle that I could hook. I just put some rocks under the corners of the stone next to my fire, shovel coals underneath it and shovel some coals over the top of my upside down skillet to preheat them. I put my pizza ingredients together, put the pizza on the stone and put the skillet over the pizza with hot coals on top of it and in about 14 minutes me and my buddies can chow down. It would work good for about anything baked but I just like to do pizzas while Club Med style camping. Fun stuff. Thanks for the video!
You got some pretty creative ideas there yourself. Thank you for watching!
Looks good James. Great idea if you're stranded in the wilderness and you can't watch Perry Mason.
Right? Lol. Thanks for watching.
Excellent 👌 Iam going to do that same bannack 🍞 hopefully next week thanks James 👍
Great, glad you liked it!
That's very Kool I have to try this while camping
Brother James I love the little oven. A cool trick. I've never tasted bannock bread before but I think I'll use your recipe and give it a try. It looks good. Thanks for sharing brother. God Bless
You're welcome, brother! It really is great recipe mainly because it's so simple but also because it tastes good. It is however, a heavy bread. Anyway, as always, thanks for watching and commenting and may His Countenance smile upon you today with great blessings as well!
Excellent stove! I’m definitely going to give that a try.
The clips are called fold back clips. What a great idea!
Thank you!
Cool ideal for a stove, could you use two small aluminum bread loaf and clip them together like a clam shell.
Thank you. Yes you could do that.
I guess you could without a doubt but it would not be flat and portable like this... unless you have a large bag.
I would buy that from the Dollar Tree and and cookie cooling rack. Use paper clips to hold it together. It's just as good and plentiful
Sure, you could do that.
James, are you the one coming up with all of these ideas? You have an amazing mind. Great job with all of it!
Most of them. Thanks for watching!
a big dy and easy to carrier ,thanks james for show us , your homemade items see you later
Thanks for watching!
Awesome! And I already have those alu pans at home which I was going to use for a Dutch Oven experiment. Will get a grill and try this!!
Excellent! Glad you liked it!
What a durable, cheap and easy (very easy) method of upgrading the camping experience!
Thanks for watching and glad you liked it.
What a really good idea 👍👍
A great little invention there that obviously works well, thanks for the demonstration.
Thank you!
fantastic idea. For me your best yet. I`ve made all sorts of stoves before but never thought of that.
You can buy aluminum signs at Home Depot for just a few bucks that cut in the Sam fashion would make a more rigid but still light oven and the finish is matte but still reflective.
This design reminds me of the old Boy Scout ovens that folks would make from the old 1 gallon thinner or mineral spirits cans in the 60s and 70s, you ever see those or make one?
Brings back memories, loved the vid and helping me remember something I had forgotten all about!
Looking forward to more! Have a good one!
Thank you so much. I haven't made on from a gallon can, but it sounds like a neat idea! Thanks for adding the info about the aluminum signs as well!
Great stuff man especially for us out here who are looking for budget friendly ideas!
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Thank you for watching, glad you liked it!
Looks great. Super easy to carry. Bread looks yummy. Thanks for sharing. Always great ideas from your channel. Have a great week
Thank you! You too!
Very interesting design I will have to make one a give it a try. On Mark Young u tube channel he has different design Reflective oven using a oven liner, I have made a oven with his design and it works really great and packs up very small.
There are many Bannock recipes but this is one that tastes great.
Thank you, my friend! I had this idea before I watched Mark Young make his. I like his design but I feel that mine, although smaller, is simpler to make. He, I believe, was trying to copy the commercially made one that he owned. I just wanted to make a simple reflector oven as cheap and light as possible.
I accidentally hit the dislike button but quickly hit the like button this is very educational thank you so much for posting this.
Thank you for watching and for the thumbs up!
This was impressive in its simplicity, well done.
Thanks!
Nice tip, it is super lightweight and excelent for backpackers.
Thank you for watching!
These trays also work excellent as a BBQ lid for the UCO flat pack grill, 😋 these older videos are just gold James thanks for sharing brotha God bless!!😁✌️💚✊️🔥
Thanks for watching them and God bless you too!
This is terrific, thanks for making this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such a Great camping Idea!!!
Thanks!
Good show. You can use a cheap baking pan also. couple of easy cuts and you have just what you show.. It will last longer too. But great idea. I am glad to see some of these ideas slippiing into use too. Thanks
True. It just doesn't pack up as small. Thanks for watching!
Makes me want to make this bread. Thanks
Thank you for watching!
Thanks like it. Small and portable..
Well Congrats JB . IMO this is the very best idea / project you have come up with . Just outstanding !!! The only thing I might do , is use another clip on the back, and part of the grill as a height adjustment for the angle . Thinking in terms of cutting a HALF a ladder with half rungs out of the grill , and using those half rungs for the angle adjustment through the clip wires / handles of the clip . That way you wouldn't even have to poke a hole in the back of the oven . . Also , this gives me a outstanding idea of using the "BIG" Turkey Roaster pans the same way in the winter as a fire reflector !! Absolutely for sure it would work , Could use a couple . Outstanding idea & video !!
Hmm, now looking at it and thinking about it further . You could cut a ladder out of the grill , bend one of the clip handles so it will go through between two rungs and wire it there, or use part of the grill as a latch / keep .
Those are some great ideas!
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
I am going to try this with a can of biscuits. Cool idea for a survival or hiking oven.
Thank you for watching!
Hi James, That bread looks delicious. From your title I thought you were going to make a solar cooker. With some modifications maybe. We’re in California so in the summer it’s kind of easy to solar cook. 😅
Great idea!
Great idea. Thank you .
You are so welcome!
Never had smoke bread before. Think I’m going try this method sometime. Thanks.
Thank you for watching!
this is next level survival craft i cant wait to try this out
Excellent. Glad you liked the video!
like the stove for camping
Thanks!
Cool little oven
Thanks!
Reminds me of my days as a boy scout. 🇨🇦
Great! Thanks for watching.
Awesome idea!! Definitely making this when I make the can grill!( Just watched that one also ☺️)
Great! Thanks for watching!
Yummm, so love fresh, baked bread. Interesting. Do take care. Fl.
Thanks!
Always impressive! I have a suggestion for sharp edges (?) What about using some aluminum tape? keep up the good work!!
You could definitely add that if you wish to.
Very good idea! Gona try it.
Thank you for watching!
I wad also thinking that you can do thing's while baking.... A true time saver.... I'm thinking also it must be smelling wonderful!
Yes it does! And it was tasty too!
I just found your videos and subscribed , they are great. God bless you brother.
Thank you so much, welcome aboard and God bless you too!
I got hungry... looks delicious
It was very tasty. Thanks for watching!
Outstanding concept, Much Obliged "!
Thanks for watching, glad you liked it!
Another great project to try while I wait for my new electric oven to arrive.
Sounds great!
Thank you so much for your help and videos, very helpful
You're welcome and thanks for watching!
Nice video. for the grill, you can get a cooling rack at dollar tree that can make many.
Indeed. Good point and thanks for watching!
Some salted butter and maybe some peach jam 😁. Pretty cool. I have a stack of pans slightly larger from Sam’s. Have to try this . Thanks
Sounds good to me, thanks for watching!
Good to know how to do however I don't think that I will personally be using that. But it is very informative
Dollar Tree is a good source for all those clips and aluminum trays
Indeed.
James, I think I'd used a Broaster pan to make that with. Got several grills to make that work. Good idea.
Sounds like a good idea! Thanks for watching.
I am going to try this recipe. The Butter Buds in the dough sounds so yummy 😋 🔥
Great, thanks for watching!
One of the first Boy Scout Badges was making toast & bread w/ a campfire toaster similar to this, except it was a steel box closed in like a oven w/ a door, it face away from the fire so it heated from the back side like a oven.. I don't see them anymore.
Very cool! You can still buy those type of ovens but they are definitely not common anymore.
I'm going to make one just like yours very soon.
P.S. My bread better taste good or I'll come after you..... :P
Update: I just bought what's necessary yesterday. Will make one today.
Thanks for watching!
excellent demo.
Thank you!
Thankyou for sharing.
You are good. I admire you!
Thank you so much 😀
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Yeah, don't use any type of evergreen to cook, good point. Great video
Excellent channel
Thank you very much!
Thanks for another awesome video! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Tea lights in an old toaster oven works as well.
I have not heard that one before, but it's a good idea!
Thank you that is so cool I’m going to make a few of those and have them on hand.
Glad you liked it and thank you for watching the video!
Very good I love to cook outside in camping! Thank you!👏
Thanks for watching!