Cooking In Small Mobile Kitchens (RVs, Boats)
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Comments (2)Cooktek and ohters make 1500 watt portable cooktops. If lack of power is of concern, you can run them at somewhat lower than max power. And even then, it would be a lot faster at cooking. The main advantage here is in not generating heat which you may have to counter with A/C. I know if we still had our boat, I would have put an induction unit like these in it for times we were plugged into shore power. The other issue with boating was that we would have the windows open and I never liked that with gas. And of course, it would take forever to boil water for cooking the crabs we would catch. So I would say go for it. You can pick up a portable unit you can return should it not work out....See Moresmall kitchen layout options - please advise!
Comments (18)Lavender_Lass, I'm glad to hear you love your wall oven! Everyone who has one seems to. I think I'll enjoy it, myself, and DH is already thrilled with the idea - he's even been checking them out at appliance stores, and he's never been that interested in ovens before. I agree that the space would really open up without the peninsula. We could do a small table and keep it simple at first, but we'd have the room in the future to expand a little, add chairs. Ashleymking, I actually love the open counter space of the peninsula, myself, and if it weren't for DH's bad back and therefore the desire for a wall oven, I'd almost certainly keep the peninsula. The 30" walkway is definitely too narrow, though - I would gladly sacrifice the peninsula space for a larger walkway. It feels cramped just looking at it from across the room. This may not apply in your layout, but for us, looking in through the dining room door, the peninsula actually extends into that line of sight, so if you walk straight across the room you could walk into it. More importantly, it's a real bottleneck for people passing through. Only one person can comfortably pass at a time (2 if you don't mind brushing up against one another!), and with an active 3-yr-old and 2 little dogs, we feel like we're constantly telling someone to get out of the way. This is compounded by the layout of the refrigerator being just off the end of the peninsula, so the walkway is totally blocked if someone opens the fridge door. It doesn't sound like a big deal - of course you can just wait a moment until the person at the fridge is done - but it annoys us every day. We felt that between 40 - 44" would work for us, larger being better. We arrived at that number partly by looking at recommendations in posts here on GW and partly by looking at the sight lines through the doors, measuring ourselves standing there 2-deep and just imagining "what if I wanted to do X..." scenarios. Well, there's my novel about our walkway, LOL! Hope that's useful to you. Marthasdream, it's funny, I had considered open shelving for the plans with the peninsula but didn't think of it with the wall oven/ open plan. Thanks for the reminder that they could still work there! My open shelf fantasy is actually to have a set of 2 or 3 with some room on one for cookbooks, and the bottom shelf having hooks for my most-often used pans. Perhaps the dream isn't dead!...See MoreRV travel - my latest crazy idea
Comments (52)Here is a local story I saw today about a couple's nightmare of problems with their luxury motorhome. Motorhome nightmare Here's a good comment from a reader: "If they had done some basic research they would have learned to avoid Thor and most other new motorhome manufacturers. This dream is definitely doable with the right coach. It is a bad idea to buy a new one. Almost all new coaches come with a long punch list of repairs and outrageous depreciation. It’s best to buy a quality used, well maintained coach that already has the bugs worked out. Foretravel, Newmar, Country Coach and Newall and Prevost are known to be the best used coaches on the market. Country Coach is out of business but they are still supported with parts and service. Look for family owned companies, avoid publicly traded manufacturers if you want quality and support."...See MoreOutfitting small second kitchen
Comments (16)The previous owner left even more wine glasses in the garage! I'll have to see what else I can put in the garage (since there is a lot of empty cabinet storage there) to make more space in the kitchen. I think that there are pans etc in some of the lower cabinets that I do not need to have at hand, but I hate lower cabinets and do not like to store anything there that I use often, as I do not like to stoop. I keep everything that I use more often in the upper cabinets - or else in the top drawers. Upper cabinets are my favorite place for storage. I do have a 10" Shun chef's knife here in L.A., and so it will complement the Shun vegetable cleaver that I ordered, and I agree that knives are not the place to stint, especially since I use my vegetable cleaver every day. That's how I justified buying the more expensive cleaver. It will make my life easier (I think), or at least more enjoyable and help encourage me to chop and cook more vegetables! I already have meat cleavers, and so I do not need any more of those. In fact, I have two and have already moved one to the desert. I use them very seldom, however, but they are good to have so that I do not need to use vegetable knives for meat. I do use the meat cleavers for hacking bones, but I would never use a delicate Japanese knife for that. Kevin has said that he wants to buy an Ooni pizza oven for Cathedral City, but the one I want will not be available until September, and so we will wait until then to order one. We do not need one for L.A. because we can use the BGE instead, and we have the BGE pizza stone for that. It will be nice to have Kevin cook pizza outdoors in CC, although I will have to do all of the prep work....See Moreediej1209 AL Zn 7
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