Omnia Oven cooking review
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- An Omnia Oven cooking review seemed to be in order now that we've used it several times while camping for everything from cinnamon rolls to cornbread to a tortellini pasta dish. Cooking in our Class B RV (a 2008 Roadtrek 190 Popular 4x4) has been with our gas stove, camping stove, microwave, and InstantPot. But as Jessi says in this video, "Sometimes, you just need an oven." So we purchased an Omnia.
We bought our Omnia on Amazon: amzn.to/3h1ceYa
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Thanks for sharing this. I wonder if they worked and you have proved they worked well! May just have to buy one! Great vlog!!!
We have been quite impressed with the capabilities so far. Looking forward to trying lots of different things in it.
Hi from Sweden! (Omnias origin country btw) I just bought an Omnia today and I am excited to use it in my van. Thanks for the inspiration! You have convinced me that I do need to get the silicone inserts too, looks so practical.
Hello from Florida (currently)! We're excited for you to try all the ways you can bake with the Omnia. And, yes, the silicone liners have been great. Keep one for savory and one for sweet dishes, too, so you don't have to worry about flavors crossing over. We have found they work well and clean up easily. Thanks for watching and commenting - safe travels to you!
Hi from the Netherlands!
I would just like to point out that if you ever doubt if something is made by our Swedish cousins, name all the Swedish brands you know: Omnia, Trianga, IKEA, Mora, etc
They must have laws about how to name a company 🤪
(No, let's not talk about Light My Fire)
We use omnia oven on my sailboat for 3 years since we have limited space it is amazing and we absolutely love it. We don't have a oven on the boat so we use the omnia all the time ⛵👍
We have really enjoyed all the different things we can bake in our Omnia. Glad to hear it works well for you, too. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you for this video. I just got my class B delivered last week so for Christmas my daughter bought me this omnia. I am excited to try it out.
Congrats! We really like ours and the longer we have it the more uses we find for it. Safe travels; enjoy your new rig!
Thanks for the thorough review and explanations! I’m pretty convinced I need this for our upcoming year in a camper 🙌
We're glad you found it helpful. We've carried this for a long time now and always find ways to use it for yummy meals and baked goods. Thanks for watching and commenting! Safe travels and happy baking!!
Wish I could give you two thumbs up! I am a single guy, with camper, just bought the Omnia and have no clue how to use it. I do now. Thank you. And oh, by the way, you are too cute! Barefoot cooking. Love it. :) Thanks again.
Loved your content. You hit all the buttons of information and your presentation was spot-on. I RV 8 months a year between Georgia, Alabama and Florida with our Motorcoach and our Chevy Classic Conversion Van (the van has the EXPLOYER Company package but no oven. This is a clear answer for me to buy an Omnia Oven for the van. Thanks, SO MUCH for your great review of it and hands on demonstrations.
Glad you liked it. We found it to be a great addition to our kitchen options. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Who doesn't love Jiffy Corn Bread?! Perhaps one day you could try baking Angel Food Cake with the Omni Oven. Thanks for creating another informative and fun episode...👍🙂
Good idea. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Jiffy! LOCAL! Been fav cornbread in FL my entire life. Love it
We ♥️ Jiffy Mix! Thanks for watching and commenting!!
I'm glad that I've seen your video on the oven. I'm definitely going to purchase one,thanks.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we have. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great review of the Omnia! We full time in our travel trailer and don’t have an oven. I’ve been considering getting one and now I’m sold!! Thanks!
That's great to hear. I'm so glad you found the video helpful. Jessi is always coming up with new ways to use the Omnia. Recently, we made baked nachos on the camp grill. It's always worth experimenting with new ideas -- especially when you're like me and just get to enjoy the results without having to stress over whether the experiment will work or not. 😀 -Ari
I hope Omnia is sponsoring you, because you're doing a hell of a job! 🤗
Thanks! And we're not sponsored by Omnia, we just really like this unit.
Hi I am truly thankful for your video’s
We love the Omnia! There's just so much you van cook in there! Pizza and calzone pizza are our favourites! We're planning to take some silicon cupcake cups, for making bread-and-egg muffins.
Yes, the ideas are endless if you just think about it like an oven rather than a portable oven. We use silicone cups for our Jiffy Mix muffins. They work great. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great Video...thank you for posting. I have added this item to my list for camp gear.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching and for letting us know. We hope you enjoy the Omnia as much as we have!
Really like your enthusiasm💫
Just bought the oven for our small caravan
Great info. Thanks 🙂🇩🇰
Glad to hear you purchased the Omnia. We have enjoyed the options it provides for us to cook different things while in our van. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great idea! I am getting one today!
Thanks for watching and for letting us know. We hope you enjoy your Omnia as much as we have enjoyed baking with ours. Keep us posted on how it goes.
thanks for sharing. i was trying to decide what pans to put back in my van for an upcoming trip, I had seen Bob Wells review the omnia for cooking frozen fish fillets and was impressed. found your video and i think the Omnia is the way to go. Thanks
We have found it to be quite versatile and it gives us an option for baking that we wouldn't have otherwise in our van. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m very interested in buying this product can’t wait to check it out again thank you
We hope you like it as much as we do!
Great review and demo of this great little oven. FYI the insert is made of silicone. Not silicon. There’s a difference.
Yep, that's a pronunciation issue on Jessi's part. As you note, there is quite a difference. 😄 Thanks for watching and commenting! -Ari
Thanks. This was informative and helpful. Best wishes!
Thanks for watching and for letting us know. We're glad you liked the video!
I can tell you really enjoy this. I've had my eye on this thing. Thanks for the review.
We have found it to be very useful, especially the more we use it to get comfortable with trying new things. Thanks for watching and commenting!
great video! thank you! we just purchased our omnia oven and can't wait to test it out!
Enjoy! It has become a great addition to our van's kitchen.
Thanks for this super helpful walkthrough! 🤩
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, thanks 🌿☀️
This is amazing 🎬🔥🏕🏞🗺🏆♨️
Thank for your video have to buy one! 👍🌹
We still use ours and enjoy it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
As a trucker this gonna be great. Now I’ll be able to actually cook chicken pot pie on the road.
Glad you found this. Thanks for watching and commenting. And thank you for doing what you do! I don't think truckers get nearly enough credit for what they accomplish every day for all of us. -Ari
I use a IBILI oven, basically the same thing but slightly larger and taller. It does not come with silicone inserts nor do they make them for the IBILI but the omnia silicone inserts can be used since they kind of fit.
I opted to get myself a set of four semi circular silicone inserts from another brand which allow me to cook two types of dishes in one go. As you may know, these types of ovens though compact produce rather large portion sizes for a van dwelling team of two so being able to make smaller portions is kind of nice to be able to.
I build my own van a couple of years back and apart from this pan I use several (not so common) cooking ware. For starters I cook on ethanol since I do not like gas and had a lot of trouble getting propane refills or swaps happening while in another country (which Europe has a lot as you may imagine) the second thing I use quite a bit is a home made heat retention cooking device called the wonder oven (youtube knows about those, various videos on how to make and use one).
The wonder oven lets you heat up a dish and leave it cooking while no fuel is used.
It is known the wonder oven is capable of cooking dishes like stews and even breads with about 10-15% of the fuel needed for a regular stewing process. And it is safe to use. You don't need to baby your cooking procedure. You could prepare the dish, heat it up on the stove, place it in the wonder oven and go for a 4 hour hike, an afternoon at the beach or little boat trip if you wanted to... Your dish would be ready as you come back. No worries if the pet has tumbled the pot, if the van burned down of if the propane has run out at some point....
I have used this type of cookers for many years and generally I am not able to pull out the heated pan without the use of mittens or the like, even after 6-8 hours... the heat is retained very very well and allows for those dishes which normally need many hours of simmering and keeping an eye on.
The third device which has become a staple of my cooking is a pressure cooker. How versatile a device those are... You can obviously do all kinds of cooking with them but what many people do not realise, a good dialed in pressure cooker can be used to can foods as well. Not that I do much canning while in the van but every now and then I come across a deal at a grocery store I just can't pass up and the only way to process the food is to can it.
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Thanks for watching and offering all that info in your comment! We will have to check out the wonder oven.
This was a very nice video with a great presenter. I've been holding out on using my Omnia, but you made it look very easy.
Glad it was helpful! The more you use it the more comfortable you will become with trying new things in it, too. We have appreciated having it several times now when we wanted to bake something while on the road. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for your review, very informative.
Glad you liked it. We really enjoy baking with our Omnia. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video! I need one of these for my camper! You say silicon I say silicone you say tamato I say tomato! Had a raz you a little bit!😂🤣
Ha! Thanks for watching and commenting.
We just got our and can wait to try it out! Thanks for sharing!!!
We have really enjoyed using ours. You'll have to let us know what you try and how it works out. Have you joined the Omnia Oven Facebook group? It's the one called "Omnia "Stovetop Oven" Cooking." Jessi has found it to be a good resource for recipes and tips. -Ari
@@Trekers I'll check it our right now!!! Thanks!
Nice one miss.
Advantage of cast iron is it cooks itself. Once hot you can turn the head off. And its done, easy to clean just rince in water. Much better than stainless steel or aluminium alloys.
I like the idea of that omni oven
Yes, cast iron has some advantages, and we have a cast iron frying pan with us when we travel. If it weren't so heavy, we'd carry more. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great review. Thanks
We're glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting us know.
Very nice presentation. Thanks
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
Hello ! ....Thank You To Show Us Your Oven. THAT'S FUN. ! 👍BUT ....WHEN YOU SAW IT ..ON AMAZON .OR I DON'T KNOW YOU WHERE YOU SAW IT ! ... BEFORE..YOU DIDN'T TOUGHT ..YOU COULD DO ONE BY YOURSELF ! ... BECAUSE ..IT'S EASY I THINK ! ..BUT THE IDEA IS VERY GOOD & SPECIAL ! ..BUT THE POINT IS 👉 YOU LIKE IT ! & YOU'RE HAPPY WITH IT ! ... YOU DID A GOOD MEAL ! Mmm🤪 & Good Cinnamon's BUNS! Mmm 🤪 Wow ! SO. DELICIOUS ! 🥰💞 👋👋👋🤗. 🤩🥰💞💞FROM DOWNTOWN MONTREAL 🇨🇦 ..
Thank you for watching and commenting. And yes, we agree on hot cinnamon buns being a great thing to bake in an Omnia!
wanted to know how much propane it uses
That all depends on what you're baking. We've always used it on our small camping grills, which use propane sparingly. The burner doesn't have to be up high but it may need to be on for 20 or 30 minutes.
Very helpful! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Just burned 2,000 calories. That’s the last time I leave brownies in the oven while I nap.
Great video!!! I learned a couple of things I'm going to try with mine.
That's great to hear. Thanks for watching and for letting us know!
I bake over my Coleman Stove in a round aluminum Jello mold that I bought at a yard sale for $0.25; just cover it with a metal camping plate. Works the same as you see here in this video.
Ingenious if you can find the necessary components. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Put a steel mixing bowl under it too perhaps to prevent burning
Great video! Where did you buy the parchment rings?
We're glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching and commenting! The parchment rings came with the Omnia when we bought it. There are different packages available depending on where you buy it. We honestly haven't used any of the parchment rings since we have silicon inserts, so we haven't needed to restock yet.
This is great! Thanks for sharing. Will it work on an electric stove top? Or is it exclusive for burner stoves?
The Omnia is designed for a flame burner. We have heard of people using it on electric, but it also depends on what type of burner (coil, flat, glass, etc.) because it can effect baking times and controlling the temperature sounds trickier. It does not work on induction since its not magnetic. We really like its performance on our camp stove and we would recommend using it with a flame burner. Let us know if you have any more questions. Thanks for watching!
Does the rack to keep things off the bottom work with the silicone liners?
Yes, the rack gives you a nice air pocket underneath the food to, for example, avoid burning the bottom of cinnamon rolls or a cake while still having them in the oven long enough to bake fully. Hope that make sense. Let us know if you have any more questions. And thanks for watching!
Saw your hook bracelet. Crucian?
St. John, U.S.Virgin Islands - don't remember the shop though.
Loving it
Thanks - we're still enjoying our Omnia and the options it provides us!
That's a cool rig. Get one of those micro-ovens from electronic stores in Japan online.
I. Had one very similar many many years ago and it had a temperature gauge on the cover.
Interesting! I have seen people adapt temperature gauges to mount them on the Omnia. Thanks for watching and for sharing that information! -Ari
Do you have an update, now that it has been about 2 years since you posted this video? Do you still use it frequently and do
you still love it? I had been wondering about this oven. So far, I've only heard really good things about it. I imagine an egg bake would work really well in this too.
Thanks for watching and for reaching out!
We continue to use and love the Omnia oven. It might not be our most-used cooking appliance but it definitely gets used often.
It often depends on if we're boondocking with only a propane grill (more use) or have electricity (then the Instant Pot or microwave might get more use). But it's perfect when we want baked goods (muffins, cornbread, biscuits), or things like baked nachos, quiche, calzones, casseroles, fries, or to heat up leftovers.
We also do a lot of "toss what's in the fridge with some tube biscuits or tortillas and bake till golden" type meals.
One thing you have to watch for is wind that blows the grill flame around underneath, which causes uneven heat and longer cooking times. We bought a metal windscreen that wraps around our grill and that has made a big difference to be able to use it under most weather conditions.
Hope that helps, we really do love it!!
-Jessi
@@Trekers Thank you so much for your response. With virtually 100% positive feedback, I am going to pull the trigger and make the purchase. May your 2022 camping season be filled with adventures!
That's great, enjoy - and safe travels to you!
Excelent video.
Thanks for watching!
Hi guys, for loads of cooking options my best advice especially if you have the electricity to do it with would be a decent toaster oven or air fryer I have not used a microwave in years as I found the change of texture unpleasent the Breville smart oven USA Version is one example of a lot of room to bake with... let me know what you think.
Thanks, we recently purchased an air fryer and like it so far. But the Omnia is still a great go-to when boondocking.
@@Trekers Thank you for the reply, do use whats most convenient, by all means, I am currently staying where I dont have a house oven so all I have is a small portable toaster oven and I bake with it, do roasts with it and anything else you care to think of. The Breville smart oven I bought, supposedly has air fry function on it but by no stretch is it a true air fryer and something to note if you ever wanted to get two in one, like I tried...
The difference between a dedicated air fryer vs a toaster with air fry function is night and day.
I'm sure that Mr. Holmes appreciates the plug for Jiffy Mix. The oven look interesting but it doesn't look like it browned very well with the rack. Is that the nature of the oven or is that a result of using the rack? Keep the good stuff coming.
:) I’m all in for supporting local businesses! I was fortunate to hear Howdy speak at a luncheon once, nice guy. And we all got Jiffy Cookbooks. Good question on the browning. Jiffy cornbread doesn’t usually brown to begin with, it’s usually pretty golden yellow. But I have a feeling it might be partly the oven too. I haven’t done enough “baking” in it to really tell yet. The bottom of the cinnamon rolls burned when I didn’t use the trivet, so there must be a happy medium. Stay tuned for more details later after I’ve experimented more. - Jessi
I am willing to try the cinammon rolls again -- ya know, to continue experimenting for everyone's benefit. 😄 -Ari
Thanks! What is the Facebook page called?
The Facebook group is called Omnia "Stovetop Oven" Cooking. Here's the link: facebook.com/groups/143800689351894
I have family in Chelsea, MI.
Home of Jiffy Mix! We've been through there a number of times, and we always try to buy Jiffy Mix when we can to support the "home team." 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting!
Doesn’t the lid stay on? Looked like it was flopping all over the place at the end!!
Yeah it stays on, unless you knock it off by dropping the whole thing like Jessi did. 😄
Where do you get your recipes?
There are Omnia Oven cookbooks available. Jessi also joined an Omnia Oven Facebook group where people swap ideas. But many times, it's Jessi working from a standard recipe and then adapting it to the size and shape of the Omnia. It functions just like an oven in many ways. -Ari
Have you tried to cook rice in this oven?
Not yet!
How do you regulate the temperature? I've looked at this system and would love to get one.
Temperature is controlled by how high your gas flame is on your stove. If cooking outside, we have found that if wind pulls the flame away from the middle of the oven it seriously affects how well it works. So we're working on better ways to screen the wind when necessary. Overall though, we really like this system.
You could get a BBQ thermometer in there. You might need to make one of the holes in the lid bigger to make it fit. But that way you can check the temperature better.
@@jannekje7 That's a good idea. We know several people who have made this modification. We've thought about it but haven't bothered to get around to it yet. 😄
I'm interested in the stove also can I get the name and where did you get it
The brand of our camp stove is Outbound. We have been very pleased with its power and size (both open for use and closed for storage.) We purchased it at Amazon: amzn.to/39SEp6P
Thanks for the video, I wouldn't placed a hot pan next to a propane container.
That's why nobody will remember your name
Can this be used on an Induction Oven too??
No, unfortunately, this will not work on an induction cooktop. Omnia says it won't even work with an induction interface disc.
Trekers: ok thank you!! Daughter, hubby and their 2yr old daughter are building a ProMaster 3500 159” extended...I was trying to talk them away from having to use propane and just go with induction, (safer/w/2yr old)
Looks really interesting, be good to link the UA-camr you mentioned you stole the recipe from too.
Thanks for watching and commenting! The recipe we copied was from Chad over at Living the Van Life (on UA-cam and Instagram). He does a lot of great cooking over the fire with his cast iron pots.
Aluminium is toxic though 🤔
Omnia says it uses an alloy steel aluminum, which is food safe.
The word is "SILICONE" (CIL-IK-ONE) not "SILICON" (CIL-IK-ON)!
Yeah, Jessi tends to use those two interchangeably even though they're not. I didn't notice it until after we shot the video, probably because I'm used to it and my brain auto-corrected. Thanks for watching! -Ari
Nice item....But You talk too much. Just to show the viewers a cooker....faster to read instructions....in Chinese.
But its aluminum. Bad for your health.
The Omnia meets all FDA standards for food contact, although being aluminium, yes it's smart to avoid cooking foods with high acidic content directly on anything aluminum. Also, we almost always use the silicone inserts for easier cleanup, which also means our food isn't in contact with the aluminum pan anyway.
Oven? do a whole chicken in it then come back, Lets be generous 'Ovenette'. As for the cost for this flimsy ' recycled coke can' item.? $100 upwards AND its made in China.. C'mon... Dutch oven with a trivet, been around for centuries and WORKS and LASTS... Reinventing the wheel or what? Over Priced Rubbish IMO.. Hey but you do you Stay Healthy.
We have found the Omnia to be well-made and it serves our needs without the added weight of cast iron, which is something we need to consider in our rig with everything else we carry. We have often considered going with a dutch oven and we may some day. But for now, the Omnia is working well. Thanks for watching!
Its made in SWEDEN not China. It costs well under 100 dollars . And you would obviously cut up a chicken to cook it in this oven. Why not check your facts before writing assinine comments.