Cooking question

[LANShark42]

Back when we bought our TT a couple of weeks ago, I made the assumption we would cook on the stove/oven/MW and add a portable grill for outside grilling. I've now come to the realization that we won't want to do a lot of cooking inside, because of the potentially overpowering odors (bacon comes to mind - and I plan on having it for breakfast A LOT).

Sooooo... Do we need to add a camp stove to our ever-growing list of camping accessories to buy, or can I find a portable grill that would perform double-duty? Your thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated by these noobie campers! Thanks!!

[LarryJM]

LANShark42 wrote:
Do I like the smell of bacon? Yes. Do I want our camper to smell like it forever and ever? Not so much. Maybe I'm anticipating a problem that won't happen. I'm just trying to be ready for when we start camping.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Do you cook all your potatoes, bacon and other foods that smell outside when home ... why change when cooking in your trailer. If your exhaust fan is lacking UPGRADE IT. We do like using an electric fry pan for a lot of frying inside and do the cook bacon ahead of time and drain between paper towels then package in aluminum foil even at home. Then you can pull out a couple of strips when needed and never dirty up a pan cooking it. I usually cook up two or three pounds at a time and do the same with sausage patties made into two oz. patties then reheated in microwave.

Larry

[Landroamer1]

Cook most everything over the fire on a tripod grill or set a frying pan on the tripod grill. Couple of friends have the Coleman Road Trip grill that they are happy with.

[Sandia_Man]

There are plenty of options for cooking bacon and various other meals outside as mentioned above. We also love cooking outside and have Coleman stove, Weber grill, and campfire for those times.

We have had our current rig for 7 years and have cooked most of the bacon we have consumed while RVing inside along with other odor inducing foods. We just utilize our power vents to exhaust any fumes and to this day can not smell any residual odors left by all the cooking we have done over the many years.

[ksg5000]

Unless I am on the BBQ everything is cooked inside. Suspect Bacon was the only sure fire way of getting my kids out of bed.

[LANShark42]

Do I like the smell of bacon? Yes. Do I want our camper to smell like it forever and ever? Not so much. Maybe I'm anticipating a problem that won't happen. I'm just trying to be ready for when we start camping.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[tatest]

For a lot of my cooking, especially stuff that stinks or spatters, I've been using the small Coleman two-burner stove I bought for tent camping forty years ago. Converted from liquid fuel to LPG, the burners become seriously oversized, output almost like a large gas grill or LPG fryer.

I think the concern about cooking smells, moisture, in the small RV space is why outdoor kitchens are becoming popular again. In the early days of RVing, outside and around back was the most common location for a built-in stove, icebox, kitchen sink.

[rvten]

Those who do not cool inside. Could save money on next RV. Tell dealer no Galley.
Same for those who do not use there potty.

[Naio]

path1 wrote:
Last couple of years I've cook a lot of bacon at home, put in plastic bag and freeze. Little can I tell the difference when pulled out of freezer warmed it up. Last batch I cooked up was 8 pounds and lasted a long time. Other side benefits is that I discovered that the more cooking I do at home the less mess of packaging, hence less trash and quicker I could get on road in morning because of less clean up. We have found pre-cooking real handy.

Wow, that is a great idea! Good for salads, etc, too, I bet.

[SlowBro]

LANShark42 how about going the other direction? Buy a camp stove that hooks into your camper's propane, then use a stovetop grill on top of that when you want to grill? Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Smokeless-Indoor-Stove-Top-Grill/dp/B002W2Q4OK

[korbe]

I use one of these.

And with my cast iron pan we cook everything outside.

Made a wind shield and bring my propane tank out to the picnic table and we're ready to go.

[sch911]

We rarely cook inside. Electric griddle, Coleman stove, Weber Q100 out on the picnic table takes care of everything.

[janstey58]

I consider these good smells, and the same thing happens when we cook bacon, etc at our stick home, so whats the big deal?

[Cobra21]

The electric griddle works great outside for bacon, eggs, and pancakes.
Okay, now Im getting hungry!

[SlowBro]

You guys are talking about the smells of fried potatoes and bacon as if they stink. If I could get that in an air freshener I would..............

[cbshoestring]

We are not big fans of cooking inside. We occasional use a pot on the stove, and the microwave, but mostly we cook outside. We carry a grate to use on the open fire, and an electric griddle. Love bacon, sausage and of course pancakes on my griddle; why make all that mess inside.