I wanted to try baking a couple items over a stove and have been looking around at different ways of doing it. The Jello mold oven and the outback oven both seem fairly popular. Would love to hear any tips for using or constructing an oven.

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Make steam oven.  Put a small amount of water in a large pot.  Place the item to bake in something smaller and place it it the large pot floating on the water.

"Steam Baking" is a easy way too go, although I don't think you can get the crisp" crust on breads that a "dry" heat bake will give you.
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Before I built my version of flashing stove, I tried the pot in pot method.
You need a diffuser or a HEAVY outer pot, because on thin lightweight pot, you could burn out the bottom.
You basically use some round stones ( I used a V shape piece of hydraulic tubing" to hold the inner pot up off of the bottom of outer pot.
With the outer pots lid on, it's sort of like a "oven". You can crack the lid, just enough to let the moisture out, which helps develop that crust we like on baked goods.
 Worked well, but its hard to know if your getting enough or to much heat. You kind of have too peek and "guess".
I liked the Flashing stove with the modifications I made. You can visually check without losing a lot of heat, and the mini oven thermometer makes it easy to keep heat steady.
 Lots of ways to go, all are cheap to make, and one of the styles will fit YOUR style of cooking.

Browntrout...Cooks pretty evenly, IMHO. I usually finish it up with the inner cover off-crustier! Heat loss is a yes, but not a huge issue with practice and I have never run out of fuel due to that! The pans also serve as our frying pan. Toyed around with the idea of hole sawing the cover to sort out the crust issue, but I am a little particular about my bread. Makes good pizza too.

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True. When my wife baked biscuits, she first browned the outside in the frying pan, then baked them.   Turned out great.  And does not require an additional piece of equipment.