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Mountain House Mountain Oven

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Heat up freeze-dried meals without using a stove! This flameless heating system is perfect for emergency preparedness or camping during burn bans.

Reusable oven pouch contains everything needed to heat five meals
Simply prepare your meal as directed, slip it into pouch with heating packet, sit back and enjoy a hot meal in approximately 15 minutes
Kit contains reusable pinch-close oven pouch, five disposable heating packets, water bottle and five salt tablets
Made for use with Mountain House meals served in the new stand-up pouches, but works with other brand freeze-dried meals too
No toxic fumes released during the heating process
Caution: avoid touching escaping steam during the heating process--temperatures may reach 200° F

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Mountain House Mountain Oven Customer Reviews

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Mountain House Mountain Oven

4.5

(based on 12 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Lightweight (9)
Compact (6)
Easy to use (6)
Functional (6)
Easy to light (4)

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry camping (8)
Backpacking (5)
Day trip (5)
Camping (3)
Hiking (3)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (6), Casual/ recreational (3), Casual adventurer (3)
- What Is Your Gear Style:
- Survivalist / minimalist (7), Comfort driven (3)
- Was this a gift?:
- No (6)

Reviewed by 12 customers

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Feb

2013

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Hubby Wants to MacGyver It...Awesome!

By Mayanista

from Long Island NY

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Set Up
Easy to Use
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Day Trips
River
Survival
Trips
Winter Camping

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

I can see why this little self-heating oven is in such a small package; it's good for 5 uses and a couple days' worth of hot meals. Its best feature is its compact size. The meal was tasty and hot. And I mean hot! We could have also heated a beverage after making our beef stew. It's got super-duper hand warmer type heaters that you put in the bottom of the bag with water and the dissolved salt tablet. Being that my minimalist camping days are 20 years behind me, I LOVE this product because you can take this on trips when a stove/fuel is difficult to carry on a plane ie., on a backcountry trip in another country. I appreciate the convenience and its reusability leaves a low-carbon footprint. Your meals come out to $11 bucks for two people, when you factor in each time you use 1 oven plus the 8 bucks it costs to buy the freeze dried food, so its pretty cheap. And all you need is drinking water. Here is a video of us testing the product; make sure small children, pets etc. are away from the product, follow the instructions...

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Jun

2012

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Ideal For Backpacking Food

By Flip Siesmic

from Long Beach

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Set Up
Easy to Use
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Three dollars per Use

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Day Trips
River
Survival
Trips
Winter Camping

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

This heater is plenty hot enough to do the job. It kept my breakfast wrap stuffing warm for quite some time. All the pro-packs were piping hot and tastey. This product is fool-proof, light and packable,and can be used without a fire permit. It would be nice to be able to buy recharge kits and re-ue the foil pouch. For right now, I stick the left-over pouches in with my SoCal survival kit to replace the cheesy heater pouches that my civilian MREs are sold with.

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Jun

2012

4.0

Easy to use, works as indicated

By J Rick

from Atlanta, GA

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Pros

Easy To Set Up
Easy to Use

Cons

Needs water
Not adaptable

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

Good alternative to using a stove, and somewhat lighter for short trips. Good for airplane travel since it's often difficult to bring a gas burning stove on the airplane.

I used it most recently in Big Bend Nat'l Park on a 2 night backpacking trip.

Gets the food pretty hot, but takes a bit longer than a stove. Doesn't boil the water, so be sure you're using treated water. It had enough heat left after I cooked my freeze dried food to heat up water for tea.

You need to use 100 ml of salt water to activate the heating pad. A bottle is provided, and you need to mix in a salt tablet. The salt tablets in my kit were all crushed when I opened the package, so I didn't know for sure how much salt to add, but it did end up working by just guessing. Since I had to pack in all my water due to the lack of reliable water sources in Big Bend, this added a pound to the effective weight I had to carry.

It would be nice to make the stove a bit more versatile by perhaps having a resuable oven bag and sell the heat pack separately, and also indicate in the instruction how much salt to use. I think I could have also gotten away with smaller heat packs. They would have taken longer to heat up the food, but I would have appreciated the reduction in weight.

Service and delivery comments:

Salt tablets were crushed when the pack was opened.

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Jan

2012

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Awesome idea for all outdoorsman!

By Nardo the Hunter

from Orange County, CA

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Pros

Compact
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Fishing
Hunting

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

Really awesome idea. Works great once you understand it. And makes the mountain meals without having to boil your own water. Everything happens inside the bag and in a few minutes you have a meal to eat. I would highly recommend this product to anyone.

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Apr

2011

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Awesome Oven!

By Aaron Survivalist

from San Ramon, Ca

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Set Up
Easy to Use
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Day Trips

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

I Love this oven! I used it for the first time at a local day hike in the national park. It warmed my food pretty well, 20 minutes waiting. It was easy to use and clean up. No fire stove needed at all, this is excellent when there is a fire ban.

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Dec

2010

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

light alterative to fuel stove

By Arkie

from Arkansas

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Pros

Lightweight

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Day Trips

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

The oven is a decent alternative for lugging fuel and stoves. The downside is that it takes longer, but just setup camp while the food cooks. I have found that you need to add the time the oven says to cook for TO the time the food says. For instance, if the oven says 20minutes... and the Eggs say 15... your probably looking at 30-35minutes to get good Eggs.

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Jul

2009

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Works very well

By Wick

from Seattle

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Pros

Easy to Use
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Limited Uses

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Backpacking

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

Includes everything for 5 uses, just add 100ml of water per use. It was the only stove for 4 people (1 night) with no problem. In the morning we heated 3C water in a metal canteen for oatmeal and hot chocolate, and it got very hot from 45-50F ambient. Slightly bulky and limited reuses, but a great inexpensive option for the occasional backpacker.

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Jun

2009

(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Great for backpacking meals!

By firesource

from SE Pennsylvania

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Pros

Compact
Easy to Use
Functional

Cons

Stays warm too long

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Day Trips
Survival

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

Used the Mountain House Stove for the first time on a day hike to Acadia National Park in Maine. Decided to try this route prior to purchasing a Pocket Rocket + cookware... I must say, its very easy to use, and heats up meals in 15-20 minutes starting with ambient temp water. My only complaint --- the heating pad stays so hot for so long, that it made packing up to leave the area a little more difficult, because placing the steaming hot stove back in my pack was not a good idea... If you are packing in/out all of your supplies, be prepared for some "post meal" cool down time... Great idea. Now if they only sold the heating pads / salt tablets separately --- you could extend the 5 use stove for use over a larger # of meals.

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Sep

2008

(15 of 16 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Great alternative to traditional stove

By STL Gumby

from Saint Louis, MO

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Pros

Easy to Light
Great temperature control
Lightweight

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Backpacking
Hiking

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

I took two of these on a backpacking trip through the Yellowstone backcountry. They worked exactly as advertised. Quick and easy to set up. Worked great for Mountain House hot dinner and breakfast pouches. You can prepare one 2-person meal or two of the smaller 1-person meals in the "oven".

The food tastes the same as if it's prepared with boiling water, it just takes 20 minutes instead of 8. You can't really overcook the pouches of food. So, I would get the Mountain Oven going and then help set up camp while it heated the food.

The only drawback may be that packing a whole bunch of these things (10 or so) can take up more room in your pack than one small stove. So, a true minimalist who is planning to prepare a lot of meals may prefer to just pack a small stove.

You also need to make sure that you will have potable water available to put in the food pouch, since you won't be boiling water for food prep.

If you plan on packing more than five meals worth of "oven" supplies, ditch the extra oven pouches and water bottles. You only really need one oven pouch (unless you lose or destroy it) and one water bottle along with as many heating pads and salt tablets as you need to prepare all your meals.

We loved the product and would definitely take them on future backbacking trips.

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Jul

2008

(10 of 10 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Totally GREAT

By wayoutthere

from NC

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Compact
Easy To Clean
Easy to Light
Lightweight
Stable

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Car Camping
Hiking

Comments about Mountain House Mountain Oven:

I love this product. I have to admit I doubted it would work well, but I was suprised! Nice hot food in 15 and easy to use. I thought it would be messy but it really wasnt, just put the heat pack in the bigger package, add the water with salt tablet, and then stick in the pack of food. Simple! I cant say if it would be great for high altitude but it sure worked well for a casual hike.

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