Electric Frypan Technical Advice
Hurricane season is coming And I need an alternative to a weather exposed stove The huge stove has it's own custom vinyl cover But the tropical kitchen has a palm frond roof and stick walls so ...
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Almot wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Yeah but for cooking only, you should be able to get 2-3 months easy out of a couple 30# tanks. If you are worried about needing a longer time period, buy a couple spares and keep them full (propane doesn't go bad with age).
In an emergency, you suck it up and cook inside or could collect wood and cook over a camp fire. If it's that windy that an outdoor cooktop won't stay lit, just open a couple windows and you should have nice cross ventilation.
He is not a tourist like most of us. Rigs staying put all the time or most of the time are using residential 70 or 100 lbs upright cylinders, 30 or 45 kg respectively. Or a bigger horizontal tank on the ground. Most locals are living like this in their homes, there are no natural gas lines. Upright cylinders are delivered by pickup truck. Permanent tanks are filled by tanker truck. People rarely travel 65 miles one way, 130 miles total, to "planta de propan" - except maybe remote farms with poor road where pickup truck wouldn't deliver 30-45 kg tanks and tanker truck wouldn't come either.
Wood burning stoves are all over, to save on propane, BUT not during a hurricane. Opening couple of windows for nice cross-ventilation in hurricane is not an option. Yes, it is THAT windy. And a lot of rain before, during and after the hurricane. Mid-summer to early fall is a rainy season, be it with or without hurricanes. You don't want to open windows in heavy wind when rain is coming horizontally, straight into window.
I was talking 2-3 months full time use. We don't go thru a 30# tank in that amount of time. If he has a big non-portable tank, he should be able to go years between fillups.
Hurricane is a day or two...you hunker down and make due (I doubt he is using the outdoor kitchen during the hurricane anyway). My understanding is this was post hurricane when services aren't up and running yet but it's still breezy, so opening the windows is viable. Likewise, setting up a makeshift shelter after the hurricane and using a wood stove still appears viable.
