cooking in the truck

looks like I might get it together soon ~ anyone have any info or comments on coffee makers - at my age to do what they want I will have to run on pure syrup & coffee & that means making it in the cab, seems I should be able to find a place to make coffee with propane burner out of the cab but anyone please provide information on brands & models

 

You might want too check out any camping store for this, my fav is camping world out of roseville, mn, they carry lot's of 12 volt appliance's

 

we have Acadamy regionally, I planned on going there but am used to the "college-campus" type equipment such as North Face & Paul Petzoldt's National Outdoor Leadership School ~ that equipment - especially the stoves - holds up under trucking type work when the "camping store / wally" stuff fails in moments or never makes it there in the first attempt to use in & sometimes does not even make it to camp area ..... breaking before using it first time

 

This is what I'm talkin about!!
The toaster oven is 120v? Are you using an inverter? You must have to idle when cooking. Correct?

 

We had and inverter and it was better to idle when the George Foreman or microwave was on, and only one of these running at a time. Didn't run them with the coffee maker on, had a Black & Decker one shot pot which would make one cup at a time, it didn't have to have filters.

 

our cooler from wal-mart works for us. we stock it with fruit and veggies. if you plan ahead you can cut food up yourself to save money. I cook meals everyday. Healthy meals in the microwave or toaster oven if you prep the night before you can have it ready the next day

 

I have to "figure" everything in advance ~ speculating keeping fresh produce around does not work for me due to packing away 6,000 - 10,000 calories in 24 hours when heavily active -{ even strapping a flatbed does not approach what I am talking about }- I keep HEB Whole Wheat and keep processed meat on ice as it is fast but produce is bulky compared to what I think I will be doing,....seems no one runs C.O.E. today, or at least not as much, so since I am targeting water-tanker seems to me I will be lucky to even make coffee in the cab, sort of figured I would have to do it in the C-1500 and I hate to run converters as it blows diodes unless one is invested in N.A.P.A.

80-amp or something running on the service-points that are factory installed might work but I keep imagining a North Face Propane, I had a Mountain Safety Research light-fuel stove ~ it would pump BTU's enough to compete with range-top

 

if you buy produce already cut it doesn't take up much room. Try when you have your break or on a rare chance you happen to get home, cook up meat products and freeze them so they don't thaw so fast and bring them with you. It beats the nitrates in processed deli meats. You can always get a rotisserie chicken on the road that would last a few meals.

 

Yeah... but FRESH stir-fry tastes soooo much better!

 

mostly I will buy plums or grapefruit and that is about as compact as it gets, recently like over the past year I have been getting bananas about every time due to "comes in it's own wrapper" ~ I avoid organochlorides ( pesticide ) ... at one point in childhood I enjoyed Dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane but today I cannot even stand to be in the soap aisle near perfumed soaps

Excellent idea but that means putting a 12-v freezer in the truck, something I do not expect to be able to do running frack-water tanker ~ I can really try to do that with the C-1500 so like we can expect every day would get a chance to get near enough to it to get some of them as I have numerous Kevlar totes + other assorted carry things to put stuff in

I agree, and glad I asked the original thread post as that is very useful idea ~ and while we are at it I have learned ...... uh, pm me or we will have some D.N.R.'s getting in our way

A few rotisserie chicken will last me about 6-10 hours, what I do is use whole-wheat bread for volume helper & quart of ice-cream to bump the sugar up, usually Ben & Jerry's as that is becoming widely available, industrial processed foods always have G.I. burden that people mistake for a health issue, which it is but not the way they are thinking