432586 Sat Aug 18 13:20:28 -0700 2007 6 31 Home Cooking 0 2858076 Anyone with an idea for making bread on top of range. My oven is on the fritz. I have my own recipes for oven baking but don't know if they will apply. Help!!! Sat Aug 18 13:20:28 -0700 2007 120230 rabbydink 1 2858698 I'm sure there are a lot of Chowhounds who have experience with stove-top baking, but I don't. I DO have a suggestion, though, and that is to look into camping recipes online. I bet a search would get you some results. Years ago, I worked at an historic site, and several of the locales within the "village" required the ladies to be preparing certain items that today, we'd bake in an oven, but in times gone by, would "bake" on a griddle over the fire. I remember preparing cookies that way, and a kind of buttermilk biscuit, as well. The cooking time was longer, and the results were somewhat different than today, with our temperature controlled devices, but good nontheless. We also used an iron kettle with a tight fitting lid, to bake items. The kettle would be heated near the fire, the item to be baked was put in the kettle, and the lid replaced, with some hot coals placed on the lid. The lid was meant to be used that way. It might give you an idea of a way to "bake" on the stove top. I'd be cautious to not place any item directly on the bottom of any kettle, but raise it, with a grate of some sort, or some cleaned tin cans with both ends removed, or at least well punctured. Good Luck!! AnnieG Sat Aug 18 20:15:34 -0700 2007 2858076 99375 violabratsche 1 2858762 I have not tried it, but I remember seeing instructions for bread in a crock-pot brochure many years ago. Perhaps a search in that direction could be fruitful? Sat Aug 18 21:01:55 -0700 2007 2858076 111267 meatn3 2 2859064 Worth a try. AnnieG Sun Aug 19 05:37:56 -0700 2007 2858762 99375 violabratsche 1 2859116 If you have a grill, you can make naan. Sun Aug 19 06:17:29 -0700 2007 2858076 39874 chowser 1 2860106 In grad school, my oven was a mess and I learned to cook English Muffins. They were wonderful. Sun Aug 19 15:00:44 -0700 2007 2858076 79896 shallots 1 2860150 Rival used to make a Bread n' Cake pan which - obviously - is for making bread and cakes. My mother used to have one in the 70s and she made a really delicious sherry pecan pound cake - recipe was included in the brochure that came with the pan. I found a PDF of the brochure on this website: http://www.endtimesreport.com/Site_Index.htm Scroll down to the food section and download. I recently found one of these pans (that fit the modern, more squat crock pot) for 50 cents at Goodwill. My sister in law went nuts over it, and lo-and-behold I found one for her for under a dollar. Ebay offers them I've noticed. More than a dollar, of course. Be sure to get one that fits your crock pot. The endtimesreport site (above) mentions baking bread without an oven, and goes into a little discussion about these pans. Good luck. Make the sherry pecan pound cake (recipe on page 2 of PDF) - is very good! Reminds me of my mother. :( Sun Aug 19 15:28:41 -0700 2007 2858076 120493 charlesartist