How to make a drink during a motorhome journey
Have you always got to turn gas on?
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if we stop for a brew, we just turn on the gas and boil the kettle in the hob....
however, some make hot drinks in a thermos flask and then just use that.....
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Sometimes we travel with the gas on although we always obey any signs to have no naked flame or turn off gas cylinders. Having the gas on means we can have use the van's heating if we wish - the gas system is designed to allow this safely in modern motorhomes.
My wife will often take a drink in a thermal mug and uses one of the van's cup holders. I am the driver and do not. If I want a hot drink, we stop and brew up.
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Boil a kettle before moving out and fill a flask with hot water to make cups of coffee on the journey and always carry a bottle of cold water in the cab for a drink when driving. The latter is especially necessary in warm climates.
We never travel with the gas on.
peedee
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I carry a portable gas stove like this:
I use it mainly for cooking in the awning, but it's dead handy for a quick brew as well and a handy backup in case of gas running out or a fault with the hob too. There are many similar ones about, they are self igniting and 'uncouple' the bottle when you
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How hot do you need your wine?
Please note this was meant as a flippant and amusing comment and in no way condones drinking and driving, particularly as spilling it whilst cornering is is a waste of good wine. What?
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Pull in to a suitable parking place ,jump out and turn on the gas ,boil kettle ,place tea bag in cup and pour boiled water on, add milk and sugar to taste ,jump back out and turn off gas ,drink tea and continue with journey
Well, that's what we do
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I find it to difficult to have a drink while on a journey, what with the phone in one hand and a sandwich in the other I’d need a long straw and keep the beer can in the cup holder.
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I find it to difficult to have a drink while on a journey, what with the phone in one hand and a sandwich in the other I’d need a long straw and keep the beer can in the cup holder.
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and in my case a cigar in the mouth
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How hot do you need your wine?
Please note this was meant as a flippant and amusing comment and in no way condones drinking and driving, particularly as spilling it whilst cornering is is a waste of good wine. What?
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this reminds me of a friend who got pulled for DD in about 1980, officer says "why are you driving when you obviously know you are unfit to be behind the wheel" he replies"because I am too pushed to walk" (I kid you not)
as above I do not condone DD
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I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.
Ahh, you have an Auto model Fysh
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You need an agile co pilot, one that can balance on the move. One driving, one brewing. Have to have gas on though, lekky kettle is tall and apt to fall over on bends. Gas kettle is short and squat, corners lovely! Don't overfill though, allow for sloppage!
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It is illegal to use the gas on a motorway services and many other car parks so we use a thermos flask. Probably easier anyway to fill this when you are packing up than putting the gas on and boiling a kettle later.
The ultimate in lazy is probably just buying one at the services if you have deep pockets.
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The ultimate in lazy is probably just buying one at the services if you have deep pockets.
Write your comments here... I never put coffee or tea in my pockets, don't like that damp warm feeling and it makes the biscuits soggy.
..... and people look at you in a strange way
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I find it to difficult to have a drink while on a journey, what with the phone in one hand and a sandwich in the other I’d need a long straw and keep the beer can in the cup holder.
You can buy a twin can cap with a straw, so being able to drink twice as much beer on route
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It is illegal to use the gas on a motorway services and many other car parks so we use a thermos flask. Probably easier anyway to fill this when you are packing up than putting the gas on and boiling a kettle later.
I never knew that, we always spark up the hob on route.
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Purists look away now.........
In 15 years I've never turned my gas off between March and October except when on a ferry and use the hob to make a brew, the oven to heat a pie etc., wherever I am.
Neither do I turn my gas off at home when I go away.
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It is illegal to use the gas on a motorway services and many other car parks so we use a thermos flask. Probably easier anyway to fill this when you are packing up than putting the gas on and boiling a kettle later.
I never knew that, we always spark up the hob on route.
So do we
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I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.
Write your comments here...you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America
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I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.
you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America
It's an urban myth that's been going around since 1998.
SNOPES says.........
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I set the cruise control then go in the back to a make a brew.
you might laugh but I read about a bloke in America who did just that and crashed. He sued the manufacturer because the handbook didn't say he couldn't and won! Only in America
It's an urban myth that's been going around since 1998.
Whoops! the wretched site timed out on me.
See SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
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Purists look away now.........
In 15 years I've never turned my gas off between March and October except when on a ferry and use the hob to make a brew, the oven to heat a pie etc., wherever I am.
Neither do I turn my gas off at home when I go away.
We are very similar. Gas gets turned on (at the bottle) at the begining of our trip and doesn't get turned off until we get home, unless we go on a ferry of course. Depending on how long we are going to drive for and what the weather is like, I will either (when its cold) fill a flask with boiling water, or put a bottle of water in the fridge for cold drinks en-route, we often drink diluted juice rather than fizzy drinks, failing that a carton of juice. We usually stop for a break every 2-3 hours of at least 15-20mins. I have used the gas hob to make drinks and the grill to warm food up while parked up, we tend not to use service stations (horrible smelly things) for lunch breaks but OH will stop to get a paper and a walk around in them. We like to find somewhere nice for having our lunch so often come off the motorway/main road to park up.
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