Instructions: You need a heavy corrugated cardboard box, (the cardboard boxes that hold 10 reams of 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper work great, just make sure that your cake pan or cookie sheet is not to large, because the box will have to go over it. If you are using any other type of box you will need to cut off the box flaps. You will need to put ventilation notches on the sides of the box (Do this by cutting out a rectangle in the middle of the top edge of the box (about 1 1/2"H x 3"W). Take heavy duty foil and line the inside of the box shiny side out. Your fuel for the oven is charcoal briquets. You will need about 10-12 hot coals. We got these hot by putting charcoal that had been soaked in charcoal starter fluid in a large coffee can and lighting them. Place heavy duty foil on the ground shiny side up and arrange your coals so that they are evenly distributed. You will need some type of legs to hold you pan up over the coals, empty vegetable cans with the labels off and wrapped in foil are good along with empty soda cans. You will need at least 4. Set your cans around the coals so that when you place your cake pan on them there is one in each corner. Now just turn your box upside down over your cake pan and your oven is ready. Anything you bake in a regular oven you can bake here. We had barbecued chicken the first night (this takes a while to bake) and individual meatloaf the next. The meatloaf is just your regular meatloaf recipe, only they are rolled into balls kind of like meatballs only bigger. We also had dessert each night made in the oven. Dump cake is a really good dessert to make in the oven. People may look surprised when they first see you with your cardboard oven, but they will quit laughing after they taste what you have baked.

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