cooking in the truck

How do you dishes? I don't mean bowls, plates, or silverware, those can be disposable, but the pots and pans? Do truck stops have a potable water source to fill up a large water jug that can be stowed in an outside storage compartment?

 

I've just used water and paper towels. Cooking spray makes clean up a snap. If the grease builds up, a kitchen spray like Windex Multisurface/ Antibacterial cuts through it no sweat. Then rinse with water and, you guessed it, paper towels.

 

Truck stops usually have potable water. If you are OTR, then consider doing like I do. Bring gallon size water jugs and smaller water bottles with you, buy water the first time if you need to. Then start keeping track of locations around the country that have great water. As you travel you will notice that some places have water that tastes nasty, while other locations have great tasting water. Whenever I'm going to be in a place with great water I fill up my large water containers.

Water is free, take advantage of it.

 

Clorox cleaning wipes (or walmart equivalent). Sometimes they leave residue, so I'll wipe with a dishtowel after. Enough paper towels will soak up cooking grease (I do a lot of meat loaves in my lunchbox oven).

Early on, I was taking my dirty dishes into the shower room with me, but I've gotten lazy and just wipe everything clean now.

 

LOL reading this makes want to ask this

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Thanks for thentip

 

Crock pot with a latched lid so you can cook all day while driving is one thing I have used for a roast with potatoes and carrots. After eating I put the left overs in a glade plastic container with a lid and used it to make hash the next day. Need to find a good way to heat up french bread pizzas next.

 

Bet you could heat em in a burton box with a lil steel riser, so you could fit two. Or, a small toaster oven. I see they make 12V pluggable ones, but with those it may take awhile to heat up.

 

Also, that breakfast hash sounds pretty tasty.

 

the toaster oven sits on my top bunk
for the non microwavable stuff
and I wash the dishes in the shower