On 10/8/2009 5:33 PM Karl Wolz wrote: > My #1 cooking in the Westy rule: don't fry ANYTHING! I pack a small stove > for just that purpose. Makes a major difference during biennial thorough > cleanings. Howdy, Karl, I try to avoid any cooking processes that involve cleanup. I am lazy that way. I will dump a can of beans into a ziplock and submerge that into boiling water just to keep from cleaning a pot. But I do enjoy me some fried potatoes and eggs for breakfast. I put a spatter shield over the fry pan to cut down on collateral damage. However, weekend after next my son is joining me for a camping trip and a fry pan is a bit too small to properly crisp up potatoes for two. I figured I could bend my "no messes" rule for this one time and use a griddle. Break out the bottle of 409 and do some swabbing afterward. It'll be the last camping trip of the season, so hey! go crazy, no? I do have a little backup butane stove for emergencies (read: no way to tell how much propane is in Westy bottle so make sure that Mrs Squirrel has some way to make coffee in the morning) but the weekend is tentatively predicted to hit below freezing at night so cooking in van is looking mighty attractive. This has become pretty much zero, if not negative, VC. Can there be negative VC? -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR |
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