At 12:40 AM 7/18/2012, craig cowan wrote: >I agree with the idea of a gimbled stove, but i for one have partial >fears of them after several pots of Kraft macaronni and cheese have Gimbals (and even one-axis pivoted stoves like the Seaward Princess Jim pointed to) can be a real can of worms. I've cooked enough meals with the stove waving about over my head to have some pronounced opinions on the various tradeoffs involved that could run to several pages, but since I think that that sort of thing for a Westy is...umm...silly, I'm not going to inflict them on you except for this: Once you get to the size of a three-burner pivoted stove with a real oven underneath it and a heavy weight in the bottom, you can afford to have the pivots just above the cooktop level (about where the surrounding rail is that keeps the pots corralled) and be reasonably safe. And if you have a small fully-gimbaled single-burner sterno/lp device where the pivots are above the maximum level of food in the pot, likewise. Like the Forespar one if you only fill the pot half full and it's a light pot. In between those is where I start getting coyote boring on the subject, so I'll be quiet now. I am reminded of coming off a cruise (best way I know to make a Westy seem really fast for a few days) and saying to Sylvan as we were blasting down the Maine Turnpike at 70 or so "Take over for a minute while I make some coffee" and actually unbuckling and starting to get up to do it. Very odd feeling. Yours, David |
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