Easy RV oven pulled pork sandwich recipe
There are many RVers who never use the oven in their campers. I saw more than my share of RVs come in on trade where everything had enjoyed some happy camping except one appliance, the oven. I, too, have been in this camp (see what I did there) but that is true no more.
On a most recent camping trip one of our group said that she was making pulled pork. In her RV oven!
Wait, don’t you have to cook low and slow? Yes.
But the RV oven’s lowest temperature setting is 300, at least on mine. How do you do that?
Well, Manya had the brilliant idea of getting an oven thermometer and seeing if the oven would hold a temperature of just above 200° despite the fact that it wasn’t on the indicator knob. Sure enough, the RV oven did indeed hold temperature that was ideal for low cooking.
So Manya brought a nice piece of pork roast, perfect for smoking or slooooooow cooking, put it in a pan and rubbed it with a spice rub. One of my favorites are the spice rubs at Savory Spice Shop and there are a number of rubs that I’ve used in the past, all with great success, but check out the spice rubs that they have here.
From there she simply put the roast in the pan and let it sit in the oven for something like six hours at just above 200° as indicated by her oven thermometer. Since we were all boondocking we didn’t have to have electricity or anything more than enough propane the run the small, efficient oven in her RV.
After about six hours she basted it with its own juices and covered it all with foil. Then she let it sit for about 45 more minutes in the oven.
RV ovens often don’t indicate fewer than 300° F.
It was magical. The pork was perfect, flavorful, tender, wonderful. I’d share a picture but, frankly, I was too busy bugging her for bites of pork to ever think about my camera. But I would love to see your pictures if you have any.
Then she went even further.
Manya pulled out the pie irons, sourdough bread, cheese and a few other condiments and we all went to work assembling sandwiches in the pie irons.
First the butter on the bread with the butter facing the metal lids of the pie irons. Then the meat, cheese, and whatever condiments you choose. Then off to the campfire where we roasted the sandwiches to our liking.
Melting cheese, buttery, crisp bread, tender, flavorful pork. Who says you have to eat lousy food when you’re boondocking?
And who says you need to avoid that RV oven you have.
Peggy’s trick is to bake cookies when we get to a campground, a lot of cookies, and then we sit outside our trailer with a nice pile of cookies and several extra camp chairs. It’s a great way to make friends and one of the reasons they call me the camp flirt.
So don’t be afraid of your ovens. A little spice, a bit of heat and you, too, could be a campground gourmet!
