flpaddler wrote on Jan 11^th, 2007 at 12:10am:

Brain storming is good. Another idea to put past you all to reduce weight, instead of skewers how about using stainless bicycle spokes, I ve used them in the past for constructing pot supports intergrated into a wind screen for my alcohol stoves. They will support a pot with 1 liter of water with out a problem. If I can get this oven down below a pound, I'll be baking this year.

Yes.  I thought about suggesting an alternative to the skewers.  However, I've grown to like them, but I may trim them a bit to save a bit of space and weight.  The one advantage I've found with the skewers (at least the one's I've found) is that they are square rather than round and than keeps them from rotating too much.  I certainly wouldn't use the skewers that are made like a cork screw.  Again, the skewers are pretty light ... I typically replace them after each trip (especially if I've used them in the campfire grill) because they are not easy to clean and they tend to get a little bent up.  The ones I buy at a local thrift store are $1.00 for a package of 4.

I think you could easily get down to an overall weight of 1 pound.  One of the things I did was to downsize the original plans just a bit with the aim of making it just a tad larger than the baking pan I would typically take.  I could probably cut the width by another inch and still be good.  I left the vertical dimension alone ... never know when I might want to cook with a taller pan than normal and that could also involve manipulating the reflector angles.

dd