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Omnia Oven Review

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SRP £45

Omnia from Sweden, produce a compact lightweight oven weighing just 500g that sits on top of a single burner camping stove and packs away into its own neat stuff sack.

The oven will work on any power source including meths, solid fuel, liquid fuel and gas. I tested the oven on my Origo 1500 single burner meths stove.

Omnia have a very good web site and this includes an excellent illustrated cook book, which you can download as a .pdf file.

It is claimed by the makers that you can cook anything in this camping oven that you can cook in a regular oven, but cooking times may vary depending on the burner and some trial and error may be needed, until you know how your burner/oven performs.

I decided to make one of my cake recipes that I bake every week in my electric oven.

The Omnia oven comprises three pieces. The base that sits on top of the heat source. The cooking pan and its lid.

First you must grease the pan and dust this with bread crumbs, so that your finished cake will release easily.

My recipe used the following ingredients: 4 ounces sugar, 4 ounces margarine, two free range eggs, 4 ounces plain flour, one teaspoon baking powder, 2 ounces raisins, one teaspoon mixed spice. I mixed the butter and sugar in a bowl with a knife, beat in the eggs and added the flour and baking powder and the raisins and beat this for five minutes to an even consistency. I then added the mixture to the pan so that it was evenly distributed around the centre vent.

A similar recipe in the Omnia cook book says to place the oven on the burner at its lowest heat and the cake should cook in about 30 minutes.

The Origo has four settings, so I lit the stove and set the burner to the lowest setting, number one. After 20 minutes the cake looked to be only half cooked, so I raised the heat to Number 2 for a further 20 minutes, checking the consistency with a knife, by which time the cake was ready.

The oven and the handle on the lid get very hot, so an oven glove or heavy tea towel should be used when removing the lid, to avoid burning your fingers.

I shut the burner down and let the oven cool on the stove. Once it was cool enough to lift without gloves, I used a spatula to release the cake and turned it out onto a plate.

Because of the vent hole in the pan, the cake resembles a Danish ring.

I thought the cake had the same taste and consistency as when cooked in my fan oven.

The oven had baked on cake mixture and breadcrumbs as you can see in the photo at left, but this easily washed off in warm soapy water.

The oven can also be used to bake bread, cook fish and meat and even pizza.

I have also tried the oven on my various small camping stoves and if you make sure the stove cannot overbalance, the oven works well.

This is an excellent piece of kit, which represents excellent value for money.

Lightweight Omnia Oven from Sweden

Grease the oven and dust with breadcrumbs

The cake mixture ready to start baking

The cake cooled and ready to turn out

The cake unique shape of the oven uses heat from a single burner to evenly cook the food.

At right, the cake was easily removed with a spatula and the pan washed clean in warm soapy water.