Cooking in the caravan
Anyone else do it apart from me?
Just asking because many of the groups that I belong to on Facebook contain numerous pictures of people with kiytchen set ups in the awning. These usually include a camping kitchen unit, gas burners and grill, electric griddle, toasters, fryers . the list
goes on.
I struggle to understand why anyone would cart all this stuff around with them when the van is equipped with a perfectly servicable kitchen.
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I have used the oven and all rings of the cooker at the same time before now. gets used as the cooker and microwave does at home.
i tend to do sausages or similar on the BBQ outside though as they spit fat too much for an enclosed space.
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I use the hob and oven but not the microwave, I use that to store bread in. Don't have a microwave at home either. I use a toaster in the awning only because theres not much worktop space in the caravan.
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We have never had a problem doing the cooming in the caravan even when our first one only had two rings. Possibly having the same set up in a tent taught us how to do it. Even now with four rings and an oven and microwave we very rarely use more than a couple
of them. It depends on what you want but with a caravan we tend to keep the meals simple.0 -
Have a big hot plate we use in awning for fry ups, no room in van, which is great for 5 of us.
Also have a little gas canister stove we use a lot in nice weather outside for one put dishes.
that said, do cook in van a lot as well.
oh and I am strangely addicted to washing up in van!
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In nice weather we prefer to cook outside, also good to cook outside if it is very hot.
We do use the van hob quite a bit, the oven, grill and microwave occasionally.
We also carry a small electric oven/grill to use outside, plus an electric griddle and an electric cooking pot.
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Anyone else do it apart from me?
Just asking because many of the groups that I belong to on Facebook contain numerous pictures of people with kiytchen set ups in the awning. These usually include a camping kitchen unit, gas burners and grill, electric griddle, toasters, fryers . the list goes on.
I struggle to understand why anyone would cart all this stuff around with them when the van is equipped with a perfectly servicable kitchen.
That could describe us, if you forget the awning bit and some of the listed equipment. We have a table, a portable fridge, a mini oven and a two ring electric hob. We don't have a toaster, or a griddle, or a deep fat fryer, a sandwich toaster, a slow cooker, or an ice-cream maker (all of which I have seen on campsites). We cook outside - often just under a sun canopy rather than a full awning - and sometimes not even that if we have a naturally shady pitch and a good weather forecast..
Why cart all that stuff around when we have a perfectly good kitchen? Because in France, where we mainly caravan these days, it's usually far too hot to cook indoors. Additionally it allows the rest of the campsite to smell our bacon frying, rather than it lingering in the caravan all day!
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I use all the items in the van, hob, grill, oven and microwave. I also cook outside in good weather using either our multicooker or the cadac, which I sometimes just use the gas ring rather than the bbq or griddle plates. I don't have a toaster, deep fat
fryer or any of these other items either, couldn't be bothered carting them around and having to keep setting them up.0 -
All the time, just as easy to use the van cooker than setup a mobile kitchen outside. Also being one of those mad ralliers we've prepared and cooked a three course meal for twenty people in the van. Record for us was a buffet for two hundred people. Had
to use the Land Rover with the air con going full blast as a temporary fridge.
Dave
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That's why we buy caravans with cookers and ovens, so that we can use them to produce tasty meals.
We have a cadac which we use out of doors when the weather is hot, but that's all. The caravan has everything we need,
We would never cook in the awning ( what's the point )
K
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Recently whilst at the VW BusFest, they held a 'cooking in a camper' competition. I considered entering, but decided to just go along to watch to eye up the competition maybe for next year. Disappointingly there were only 2 entries...out of 1000's of vans.
Does this mean people in camper vans would only cook outside or eat takeaways? If I'd entered the competition, I'd have got 3rd prize at least...even if I'd just made beans on toast!0 -
How disappointing Jood - I remember seeing some programmes with amazing meals coming out of a VW. Was that fest at Berkeley Castle by any chance? I was in the area - visiting the castle and was asked which entrance I wanted! There were certainly a lot
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How disappointing Jood - I remember seeing some programmes with amazing meals coming out of a VW. Was that fest at Berkeley Castle by any chance? I was in the area - visiting the castle and was asked which entrance I wanted! There were certainly a lot
of campers in the area!It was at the Malvern 3 Counties Showground Pippa...but there was a show at Berkeley Castle recently as well. There are so many VW festivals/shows all over the place throughout the year but busfest at Malvern is supposed to be the biggest one in the world!
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All the cooking is done on the extensive facilities in the caravan - except the deep fat fryer! That is relegated to outside for safety and odour reasons, and that is outside of the awning as well!!
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Muesli and fruit for breakfast, baguette and cheese/ham for lunch, salad for dinner or sometimes BBQ fish and fresh veg. No use for an oven/grill and rarely use the microwave. In fact we have taken the grill pan and oven rack out; they're in the loft.
I am appalled by some people's diet - frying pans, deep fat fryers etc. Still, it keeps the health service in business.
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We had a caravan to use. Everything in it gets used be it the overnight, grill, microwave, fridge, freezer, toilet, shower etc. etc. The Cadac when it's fine. We don't carry mobile cooking outfits for use in the awning be it a grill, ice cream maker or
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I am appalled by some people's diet - frying pans, deep fat fryers etc.
Now now! Some of us need deep frying for the diets we are on. Some foods can only be prepared that way.
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If food needs cooking then we use whatever it needs to cook it in ,oven ,grill or microwave ........
likewise, also use little cadac for bacon etc in warmer weather - saves mess in the van. Use oven more in winter. Why have the equipment and not use it?
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ian, no i dont....if its cold out and i want bacon for breakfast,it gets cooked on the gas hob....in the van.
we do have a Cadac and a prtable electric hot plate for cooking outside when the weather is great....
...mainly, Im like Hitch....muesli/fruit for brekkie (genearlly outside if at all possible) and ham/cheese for lunch, if at the van....though usually out somewhere...
just eating my muesli now.....with banana....and orange juice....
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I would only cook outside if we were staying in high temperatures, unlikely as we usually head north. I use a kettle on gas too. I like the gas hob although I use the one electric hotplate on the hob sometimes. Our only extra is the built in microwave which is a useful bread bin if we're off EHU.
We do take the food outside if it's warm enough.
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As the previous comments we use all the equipment as supplied in the van. The one extra piece of equipment that Her Ladyship likes for our extended trips away is a 'slow cooker' or a crockpot as they are now called. Nothing better than coming back to the
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We use oven and hob for cooking, we have even cooked our Xmas dinner in the van on a number of occasions, the only time we don't cook in the van is if we eat out or use the Barbi which when in France for our normal 2 to 3 week jaunt is most evenings
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