Portable Cooktop

coolmom42 wrote:
Just open some windows/vents and freshen the air in the RV. That's a lot simpler than buying/hauling around a cooktop, and dragging all your cooking supplies outside. For the life of me I do not understand why people don't just use their RVs like a house.

We much prefer doing all the cooking outside. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. A Coleman 2 burner propane, a Regal electric skillet, and a Weber Q120. Food tastes better when cooked outside!

Just open some windows/vents and freshen the air in the RV. That's a lot simpler than buying/hauling around a cooktop, and dragging all your cooking supplies outside. For the life of me I do not understand why people don't just use their RVs like a house.

But if you must cook outside, the Coleman 2-burner is a simple solution. The temperature control is not the best--it goes from OFF to LARGE FLAME with nothing in between. So you won't be able to simmer anything on it. It works OK for things like you mentioned.

I have one of these:



I've owned it for over 15 years and use it all the time when camping. Have even used it at home during power outages (have electric stove at home).

I have a propane tree with a 5 foot hose that allows me to hook it up to a 20lb propane tank.

-Michael

We have the Coleman Road Trip and we can use the two burner propane grill that run from the 1lb canisters just about anywhere... Got it sitting inside my house in front of the fireplace as we speak just in case our upcoming storms takes out the power grid for a couple of days...

Roy Ken

Is there any particular reason not to use a standard propane camp stove? You can get a decent one for a lot less than the (nice) Atwood you list, especially once you add in a base and a propane connection, and the camp stove is likely to be more portable. Even the $20 ones at Wal-Mart or wherever work acceptably well, though they may not be the most robust for hard use. If you get a two-burner model, you should be able to ditch the regulator and connect it to your RV's propane system and regulator should you so desire using the usual grill quick-connects (and appropriate hoses, connectors, etc.). This doesn't work so well with stoves or grills that have the control knob built into the regulator as a single unit, typical of single burner ones.

Once very real problem you'll almost certainly encounter with the cooktop you mention is wind and breezes affecting the flame. There's a lot less wind inside the RV kitchen. Camp stoves often have side and back flaps to help combat this.