Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:15 -0400
Reply-To: W Monk <billmonk@GMAIL.COM>
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From: W Monk <billmonk@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Replacing copper propane lines
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Mark,
My wife is very anal about oders and messes of any kind. Before we got
married I used to cook in my 78 all the time,but that bus wasn't as nice as
our 87. Heck, I can't even cook fish in the house that has to be done
outside on the grill. My thought process may be skewed by my wifes
"training". I do remember though when cooking in the 78 it was common for
the stronger smelling stuff to be absorbed by the blankets and clothes. She
makes us pack dry bags for our dirty clothes so the campfire smell (which I
love) doesn't stink up the van. I get teased often as our last name is Monk
and like the character on the tv show Monk my wife has made me as
germ/dirt paranoid as him. I still recommend the vacumn bag food as it
allows us to have a great variety of foods available to us without the fuss
and time needed for prep. Plus some food just taste better the second time
around. If we know we are going camping soon we start making extra at dinner
time so we can freeze the leftovers in the vacumn bags for meals on the go.
I think I see a fuzz on the floor I need to go pick up :)
Bill
On 8/30/08, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
> My wife and I cook complete meals inside all the time. No problem with
> lingering odors. I don't know why people think otherwise. Some foods
> need more ventilation during cooking than others but that is what
> windows and doors are for.
>
> We just camped in one of our Vanagons for about 40 nights in a row. We
> cooked every meal inside. My wife makes a variety of flavorful dishes,
> Thai food being among our favorites.
>
> Mark
>
> W Monk wrote:
>
>> I don't know what other do,but the only thing I use the stove for in out
>> Westy is to make coffee/tea or boil water for our prepacked meals. Our
>> prepacked meals are pasta w/sauce,stews,ect..Anything that we can seal and
>> freeze in vacumn sealed plastic bags.
>> All you do is heat them up in boiling/hot water. Saves on prep,clean
>> up,spending money on resteraunts ect.. while traveling. Once at a campsite
>> we use our campstove outside
>> with a hose off my Westy tank via the kit I got from Ron. Makes carrying
>> the
>> little
>> cylinders a thing of the past. I could never see making bacon or eggs
>> inside
>> the van
>> imagine the grease smell ect..that would stick with the van. Yuck.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On 8/30/08, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> To use them 'in-the-van', you must open windows, slider, etc. to provide
>>> proper ventilation, right? I believe the owner's manual explains
>>> this.....
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