12 Volt Cooking in Truck

Tonight in my lunchbox ovens I am cooking chicken breast, rice-a-roni and carrots.
Any meat cooks well in them, and usually pretty quickly.
Baked potato's can take some time, so it takes a little more planning.
Veggies cook faster if they are in their own oven with a little water in the tin. Cooking them wrapped in foil (with just a little water) takes longer, especially for carrots.

I'll do hamburgers and sloppy joe's as well.
The ideas are probably endless.

 

Ok. So I just got one this week. I pre package all my meals in zip lock bags. Put them in a plastic container and freeze them. Just so they last longer. My wife says the bread pans are about $1 at the local grocery stores. I guess my question is, how do you cook with it? Are you putting it in pans? Do you reuse them by cleaning them out? Do you put water in the lunch box? That's what I have been doing. I'm just trying to figure it out. I'm going to watch those videos too.

 

@Waggledaddy hit up Walmarts for the 3 for $1disposable aluminum bread pans, I have about an inch of water in my lunchbox and use it like a double boiler, 20 minutes the water is boiling

 

Btw I'm eating cabbage and smoked jalapeño cheddar kielbasa. Cooked for about an hour.

 

Ok. I'm doing it right lol. Before I was using a crock pot. But I started smelling an electric fire smell. I unplugged it immediately. Don't know if it still works or not. Pilot had the lunchbox on sale. Cheaper than amazon. So I bought it. First meal I tried doing the same thing I did with the crock pot. I would boil my zip lock bags in the water. Well. I didn't know if i could put water in this. So no water. Just pan and bags. And they melted lol. Bought dinner that night and added water the next day with no bag. Been doing good last 2 nights. Chicken fajita last night. And then above what's on the menu tonight. I'm just kind of I guess looking for different recipes or ideas. So far so good though.

 

Those bags are killer expensive. 8 bucks for 4 of them. Even on amazon. We did some experiments at home before boiling zip lock bags. My wife rapid boiled them and they didn't melt. I tried it with no water and they melted. It's really good for eggs. Makes a great omelette. Hope I can figure it out.