Cooking question

You can have the little ones that screw into the stove, but they must be stored unattached in the side box.
If you wish to cook in the truck like I do, a single or double burner hot plate can run off of an inverter and you can prepare some pretty awesome meals.
Propane and BBQ type stoves are limited to outside use and on a really nasty day your cooking options become very limited.
Also slow cookers are real handy as are bagel toast e rs and hot boxes.

 

It has to be over so many pounds to be considered hazmat. Those small green camping tanks are far below the limit. Heck most rvs have 2 onboard 30 lb tanks and they are allowed through all tunnels.

Besides which, most of those camping stoves don't use propane. They use butane.

 

@spyder7723 ...good to know. Thx

 

Attachment is available for refilling the disposable propane bottles from your refillable 20lb or what you have.

 

Why not?

 

The propane is too volatile / flammable ... unless you babysit it and for sure, do not smoke. I watched a guy (almost) catch his rig on fire in the early 90's cooking burgers on his catwalk. I was close enough with my fire extinguisher to save a life, and a KW that day.
I'm not OTR anymore, but when I was; I'd use the old Hibachi outside / behind my rig, or a crockpot inside slowly cooking while driving.

 

Ok I got the no propping thing but the statement was not to cook in the truck. I do all the time using a microwave and a convection oven. Eat great and a lot more healthy

 

Not trying to argue with you but i really think ya need to take a moment and think. Yes there has been a few scary examples of propane causing issues. But there are also millions upon millions of examples of people using propane for all sorts of different applications. It just takes a bit of common sense to be safe. Propane heats literally hundreds of thousands homes every winter and is used to fuel the stove, dryer, and hot watertank in most of those homes. Propane is used on thousands of vehicles including big turbo diesels, turbo temperatures can reach over 1k degrees, and yet we don't see them burnt down on the side of the highway. Many fleets are using cng and lg(other fuels verry similar to propane) powered engines in their trucks, ups is an example of this. Propane is used to fuel stationary engines, such as pumps and generators, the grove beside my farm runs their irrigation system with one. Heck even i have had a big block chevy in a 1 ton truck that could run on gas OR propane. And i run my torches on propane.

And if none of that is enough evidence consider this. Every Wal-Mart, lowes, home depot, sears, kmart, ace hardware, menards, sams club, costco, and every other large retailer sells propane grills. With today's society where you can sue and win millions for something as simple as slipping on a wet floor or spilling your coffee, do you honestly believe these big retailers would open themselves up to lawsuits if cooking with propane was inherently dangerous?

Can open flame cooking be dangerous? Well nothing is without some risk. But for those willing to apply some common sense it is as safe as anything else you do in your day.

To touch on a truck being flammable. Have you ever taken an rv apart? They have all the fire resistance of a dried up Christmas tree. and yet every single one I've been in had a propane fueled stove.

Now all that being said, i wouldn't suggest carrying a camping stove. Then you need pots and pans and ya only got so much storage space in that truck. An electric pan is so much simpler. No need for extra cooking pans.

 

I agree, man. Wasn't my truck, wasn't my fire. Just enough to shake me up. He was afraid to open his door to get his OWN F/E.... i took care of it, we shook hands, and that was that. I was OTR for many years before I got my local, and that just put a bad "flavor" in my mouth, if you will.

No dis to those of you that are successful with this concept. I'm not sure what went wrong; just figured if his tanks went up, mine were next in line. Literally. I thought I was watching my life go by that day.

 

The Hibachi or some form there of is the truth, the way, and the life.

Never liked gas fired grills in any setting.

In fact someday when I come to Ohio, we'll grill it up at TS lol.