Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:22:43 -0700
Reply-To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: camp stoves outside but connected
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I like where this is going, but maybe we should save it up for Friday so we
don't annoy the mods or make them hungry. I like the idea of the small
pressure cooker. I can just picture you bagging small game and making up a
real sportsman's stew. No squirrels I hope though. I have two Cabela's
mega stores near me (what a trip those are), and I would lay in a supply of
their game cooking spices if I ever had any game.
Let's all submit on Friday in a new "Vanagon cooking" thread. I'm betting
it will be meat heavy. I hope so anyway.
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:22 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: camp stoves outside but connected
Well, if others are chatting about cooking, then I might as well.
In cold weather I tend to favor stews, broths, soups. For those I use a
small pressure cooker, inside. Sometimes I put it on top of my kerosene
heater, which I use outside, if I want the cooker to run at just below
"lunch whistle in Scranton PA" level. Breakfasts will be cooked inside, I
tend to favor eggs and bacons and similar.
In hot weather I cook outdoors, using a variety of methods: a small charcoal
smoker ("Old Smokey"), or a charcoal grill. When fires are restricted I
grumble and use a propane barbecue which can be dialed down low enough for
smoking, too. I cook breakfasts outdoors on a small butane stove -- the kind
that uses butane cans about the size of a large can of spray paint.
Morning coffee and midday hot teas (in cold weather) are normally done
indoors year 'round and require nothing more than water heated in a small
kettle.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
On 09/03/2013 12:18 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Sounds like good eatin' to me. My choice of grill is the cobb (
> http://www.cobbamerica.com/), very versatile and uses very little
charcoal.
> I cook outside mostly to keep the heat out of the cabin, but grilled
> food of course has its own merits.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Stuart MacMillan
<stuartmacm@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> With the family trips of 7 a pound of bacon, a pound of sausage, and
>> then either eggs, hash browns, French toast, or pancakes (not every
>> morning though). So yes, I am rendering lard! The curtains, canvass,
>> upholstery, and fuzz on the top will absorb a lot of vaporized and
splattered grease.
>> And I hate cleaning the van.****
>>
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>> For dinner I grill the protein and vegetables on my Campfire Grill
>> using charcoal, not a campfire. I have both the 18" with the
>> optional charcoal pan and the Rebel, and they are great.
>> http://campfiregrill.com/ We eat a lot of seafood broken with the
>> occasional rib eye, and sometimes my son in law actually catches
>> dinner! Usually Dungeness crab and salmon.****
>>
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>> We always camp along the west coast, and our favorite spot has
>> moorage so my son in law and daughter can sail up to join us. We are
>> never far from a decent store!****
>>
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>>
>> Stuart****
>>
>> *From:* Jim Felder [mailto:jim.felder@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:56 AM
>> *To:* Stuart MacMillan
>> *Cc:* Vanagon mailing list
>> *Subject:* Re: camp stoves outside but connected****
>>
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>> This is a phenomenon I have not noticed in my 230+ Westy camping
>> trips while cooking full meals inside for often five people and sometimes
six.
>> Are you rendering lard in there or something?****
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>> : )****
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>> JIm****
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>> Frying just coats the inside of the van with grease.
>>
>> ****
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