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Van Oven? An Honest Review After 8 Years With Our Camp Chef Oven

October 8, 2024 Betsy Woods

Van Oven-2.jpg — The range is great on this Camp Chef oven and the entire unit fit really nicely into our layout

Thinking about installing an oven in your van? Keep reading for our honest review of the Camp Chef oven we installed in our van conversion after 8 years of use. Includes all the details about what we like and don't like about it, what kinds of things we've managed to bake in it, and whether it's really worth it to have an oven in your van!

Van Oven: How To

October 10, 2017 Betsy Woods

If you follow us on Instagram, you've seen that we have an oven and a range in our Sprinter. We didn't think people would think much of it, but we've received a lot of questions about the oven. As such, I asked my father (who installed the oven for us) to provide some details about the install and the following is what he sent me.

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