Tris:
Don’t bother with a gas stove. You won’t use it. Pain in the arse with all the hassle to set it up, cook, creating lots of washing up, and not to mention all the space the stuff takes up, plus the risk of carrying gas canisters. Get with the times and get a pure sine inverter and a microwave. I can set mine up in 1 minute, bung a meal in the microwave, cook it in 3 minutes, throw away the container and all I have to clean is the fork with a wet wipe.
Some of us would rather prepare and cook our own snap rather than nuke it. Plus what does a stove and gas bottle take up? If you have good storage space for stuff and a fridge for food you won’t know any different. Unless you are tramping in a car transporter.
It’s 2016 not 1970. Anyone who uses a gas stove nowadays is a bit odd.
For a start the inverter is fitted under the bed so takes up no space, and the microwave is a small one. If you’re going for a gas stove you’ve not only got the stove and gas to store, but also saucepan, frying pan, washing up bowl etc.
After a 13 hour day the last thing you want to do is spend time setting it up and cooking and then have all the dirty pots, pans and plates to deal with. Its just not practical when times have moved on and you can do stuff in a microwave much more easily.
i don’t do microwave meals at home as they tend to be full of crap - would hate to start in a cab too, if your that desperate for ease buy loads of pot noodles
the nodding donkey:
My girlfriend cooks meals for me, which she freezes and which I heat up in a pan. I also carry breakfast stuff and cheese and such. The small single burner cookers mentioned above are great, but buy a quality one. And use your head, open the windows/roof hatch and check (sniff/listen) for a leak when you connect the cannister.
I spent over a week at the exhibition hall in Freidrickshaven and as it was so hot I did most of my cooking outside but one thing I did learn was that it’s a bad idea to sit a hot frying pan on the plastic battery cover
war1974:
i don’t do microwave meals at home as they tend to be full of crap - would hate to start in a cab too, if your that desperate for ease buy loads of pot noodles
I take stuff that is prepared at home and then frozen. Also tins of all day breakfast, tins of chicken in white sauce (with a stash of microwave rice), baxters soup, big soup, stew, also stocked up with tins of fruit cocktail & rice pudding for pudding. I just tip the tins in a glass jug and microwave for 3 minutes - job done. And all I’ve got to wash is the jug and a spoon which I can manage with kitchen roll and wet wipes. Occasionally buy some m&s pasta ready meals and the odd fishermans pie.
Tris:
Don’t bother with a gas stove. You won’t use it. Pain in the arse with all the hassle to set it up, cook, creating lots of washing up, and not to mention all the space the stuff takes up, plus the risk of carrying gas canisters. Get with the times and get a pure sine inverter and a microwave. I can set mine up in 1 minute, bung a meal in the microwave, cook it in 3 minutes, throw away the container and all I have to clean is the fork with a wet wipe.
Some of us enjoy cooking. Microwave meals are NEVER as good as freshly cooked
For a start the inverter is fitted under the bed so takes up no space, and the microwave is a small one. If you’re going for a gas stove you’ve not only got the stove and gas to store, but also saucepan, frying pan, washing up bowl etc.
After a 13 hour day the last thing you want to do is spend time setting it up and cooking and then have all the dirty pots, pans and plates to deal with. Its just not practical when times have moved on and you can do stuff in a microwave much more easily.
I like the way you seem to think microwaves are some sort of futuristic wonder box! I cook on gas at home so why not at work
For a start the inverter is fitted under the bed so takes up no space, and the microwave is a small one. If you’re going for a gas stove you’ve not only got the stove and gas to store, but also saucepan, frying pan, washing up bowl etc.
After a 13 hour day the last thing you want to do is spend time setting it up and cooking and then have all the dirty pots, pans and plates to deal with. Its just not practical when times have moved on and you can do stuff in a microwave much more easily.
I like the way you seem to think microwaves are some sort of futuristic wonder box! I cook on gas at home so why not at work
if you can’t afford an inverter and a microwave then fair enough, but let’s not pretend what you do is ideal.
I can’t help feeling however that next century schoolteachers are going to say to their class “and did you know that hundreds of years ago our ancestors actually used to microwave food? What were they thinking?”
Tris:
if you can’t afford an inverter and a microwave then fair enough, but let’s not pretend what you do is ideal.
Still better than a microwave. I barely use it at home as it is. As I said freshly cooked beats microwaved every time for me. But then I’m not a fan of reheated food or supermarket microwave meals and the health disaster they are
who the ■■■■ scrambles eggs in a microwave? You filthly buggers, cant beat proper scramble eggs done on the pan in the truck to start the day. I have never had any desire to own a microwave in the truck the food suitable for microwaves is crap after heating it up. Anyone professing that microwaves are better then gas are lazy ■■■■■■■ simple as! I can cook with one pan and eat from it and washing up takes all of 2 minutes out the window to clean 1 pan and a fork/spoon
With an invertor you can bang a george forman on and cook meat on that, then put some potatoes and veg on the gas and have a proper meal that isnt full of salt or saturated fat and doesnt cost a lot to
switchlogic:
HERE HERE! Anyone who thinks microwave scrambled eggs are best hasn’t had proper scrambled eggs!
You obviously don’t know how to cook them properly in the microwave in that case. It cooks them perfectly if you take them out early enough. That said most people overcook scrambled eggs.
OllieNotts:
who the [zb] scrambles eggs in a microwave? You filthly buggers, cant beat proper scramble eggs done on the pan in the truck to start the day. I have never had any desire to own a microwave in the truck the food suitable for microwaves is crap after heating it up. Anyone professing that microwaves are better then gas are lazy [zb] simple as! I can cook with one pan and eat from it and washing up takes all of 2 minutes out the window to clean 1 pan and a fork/spoon
With an invertor you can bang a george forman on and cook meat on that, then put some potatoes and veg on the gas and have a proper meal that isnt full of salt or saturated fat and doesnt cost a lot to
Sod that. I couldn’t be arsed to spend ages preparing and cooking food in my tin can. A George Foreman grill ffs - they can make a right mess with the fat running out, bet it stinks the cab out. I’d rather have a tin of baxters ■■■■-a-leekie and some nice crusty bread. Maybe an salad for some extra vitamins. Tbh I don’t really need a lot to eat when I’m out tramping as I’m not using much energy by the nature of the job. Tesco value muesli and milk does me for breakfast. The value stuff is really nice and has far less sugar than the expensive stuff.
switchlogic:
HERE HERE! Anyone who thinks microwave scrambled eggs are best hasn’t had proper scrambled eggs!
You obviously don’t know how to cook them properly in the microwave in that case. It cooks them perfectly if you take them out early enough. That said most people overcook scrambled eggs.
You obviously don’t know how to cook scrambled eggs in that case.
switchlogic:
HERE HERE! Anyone who thinks microwave scrambled eggs are best hasn’t had proper scrambled eggs!
You obviously don’t know how to cook them properly in the microwave in that case. It cooks them perfectly if you take them out early enough. That said most people overcook scrambled eggs.
You obviously don’t know how to cook scrambled eggs in that case.
Takes literally two minutes in a pan.
A.
Takes less time in a microwave, it doesn’t stick, and it does it perfectly. If you learnt how to do it in a microwave properly you’d never go back.
