cooking in the truck

you are what's wrong in the world.

 

Can you elaborate on the "... good size inverter... leave the truck running..."
I'm contemplating getting a hot pot... I have an 1800W in enter and an APU... will I be ok using a hot pot. Thanks for your time. God bless and be safe.

 

Our inverter is a 2500... The battery gauge goes down to 12.2 when using the hot pot, even with the engine running... When the engine is running, with no draw, it usually reads 14.4... As to if your APU/inverter will handle it, I don't know. Someone with more knowledge of amps and volts will need to pop in...

 

What size and brand hot pot do you have?

 

Hot pot? Is that like a slow cooker?

 

You should limit you're cooking in the truck to a micro wave oven. The fossil fuel type stoves will produce CO and in no time the PPM of CO will exceed the limits to occupy the cab and sleeper. Some of our drivers will use the propane stoves outside during the summer months and use the micro wave in the cold winter months. If you have an inverter or APU they will power your micro wave without any problems. Inverter should be large enough to handle the wattage of your micro wave oven and a 12 volt cooler. Good luck.

 

It's all come full circle.

My first trip with prime, was bobtail to joplin.. My last load, bobtail from joplin.

SpriMo, truck gets turned in tomorrow.

 

I have read through most of this thread... mostly skipped about every 4th page... read allot about appliances, inverters/hook-ups and other equipment (including "in truck bathing"????)...

Could someone please help direct me to pages that discuss meal planning, menus, and recipes in this "cooking in the truck" section?

 

There really isn't any in this section and I haven't found much of anything in ttr either.

Meal planning out here is a bit different and depends completely on what appliances and cooking items you have with you. The other thing to have to remember out here is you are limited to shopping usually at Walmart and each Walmart is different in the items they carry. Yes they will have your basics like milk and eggs but for example there is a nice beef pot roast kit that had the meat, veggies, slow cooker liner bad, and seasonings all together, it's not at every Walmart store. BTW, things like that kit and a crock pot can make for a very good meal at the end of the day if you put it on low for 10hrs. And there is always enough for leftovers the next day. That one kit can basically feed you for 3-4 meals.

As for meal planning I have a few items I'll eat on a regular basis and just stock up on them when I can. I have a running grocery list on my phone so when I am at Walmart I can check of the items I got and they'll go to the bottom of the list and when I run out of that item I just uncheck it and it goes back to the top of my list.

My basics on the list are eggs, milk, apples, bananas, chicken breast, turkey bacon, pot roast kit, frozen cedar planked salmon, hummus, chips and anything else I can think of or non-food items I might need like paper towels.

Hope that helps.

When do you start orientation BTW?

 

Aldi's and no Wal-Mart have prepackaged beef roasts and chicken dinners that are for the crock pot. If you would like a huge amount of crock pot meals or dishes, let me know I will send a word document cook book that I put together for my sons when they moved out of the house.