Who has mastered the art of cooking OTR?

1.5 hours to cook and eat... 8.5 to sleep.. guess you need beauty sleep

 

Yeah I have a fridge, it runs off the batteries. I rarely use it. No interest in getting an apu either.

I don't have much of a drive to cook actual meals in my truck. I buy milk whenever I want cereal for breakfast and eat ravioli straight out of the can. I have used the fridge in past to keep sandwich meat and cheese etc in it. Ended up eating a lot more. So didn't really see the purpose. For me the cereal and ravioli is more about portion control as well as a cheap meal. I am sick of most of what truck stops offer so it's all I really want.

Another issue with the fridge is my border crossings. Declaring everything I have sometimes results in them wanting to check it all. So if I tell them chef boyardee and cereal and that's it it's smoother. I don't do wal mart either.

 

That wouldn't be a bad idea. A small plastic tote, dryer hose and a 12v inline fan and you could have a full-on vent hood just like at home.

 

I cook many, well, every meal in the truck. Everything from steaks to stuffed acorn squash, bacon wrapped asparagus & brussel sprouts, eggs, bacon and the list goes on. I eat Keto and truck-stop garbage is not Keto. I can eat for a week, and when I say eat, I mean eat good, healthy and satisfying meals for a week on what an average driver spends each day eating the offerings at the truck-stops.

I've cooked in trucks for years, I have an oven, griddle, crock pot, sous vide, charcoal grill (obviously use outside the truck), refrigerator and deep freezer. Keep a window open while cooking, use 1 single Clorox wipe to wipe down the inside of the truck every few days and there are no "smells" or any of that. Yes, the smell of something cooking in the crock pot all day while driving can definitely drive your hunger crazy but other than that, sometimes bacon smell will linger a few hours.

Over on another thread I post pictures of what I've cooked almost every evening. So far this trip I've had bacon wrapped chicken breast with cheese stuffing, chili lime marinated chicken breast, sirloin steak, sausage-apple stuffed acorn squash, riced cauliflower with mascarpone and creme fraiche, bacon wrapped asparagus, bacon and eggs...... You can cook almost anything in a truck.

Op asked about 5 minute meals, absolutely can be done but he's going to have to put in some work ahead of time. I sous vide many things while at home and just leave it in the vacuum bag. Drop it in the deep freeze then decide what I want for dinner tomorrow, move it to the fridge to defrost for 24 hours then as soon as I stop, crank the convection oven up to 425, unbag the already cooked food, throw it in the oven and it'll be hot and ready before a proper post trip is completed. Can throw it on the griddle in less time or in the case of steaks/chicken, fire up my little charcoal grill while doing a post-trip then char it off on the hot coals.

 

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