Slow cookers

[T1 Terry]

I did a lithium demo a few yrs back at a Taggerty get together and cooked a loaf of bread in a Breville bread maker and then a pot of coffee with no charging at all connected to the batteries, then recharged them in under 15 mins from another set of lithium battery cells, it's what batteries you use that makes the difference. We often do a loaf of bread and a slow cook at the same time via inverters from the battery bank, then a pot of percolated coffee when the slow cooker gets switch to keep warm, it's a bit much for the inverter other wise.
The all in one would be handy to save space but you would need to bake the bread a long while before the soup or slow cook was ready, so I think we will probably just cart them all with us.

[Dot]

Planning ol son, it's all in the planning. (men)

[Greynomad]

Dot,
Doesn't G get jealous now that you're planning men?


T1,
Sounds like an impressive demo. However, if you add to the cost of the 3-in-1 the phenomenal cost of switching to Lithium batteries to run it, you get a figure far to embarrassing to publish.
We'll stick with the Shuttle Chef. Use it at home, as well as on the road. Saves gas there, too.

[T1 Terry]

Not as expensive as you may think Ray, when your AGM batteries are due for replacement it would pay to do a cost comparison, for the amount of useable capacity lithiums are quite cost effective, the other benefits are a bonus.

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

Replaced the house batteries about a year ago, so not looking to price lithiums for at least a few years.
Hope by then the price has come down a fair bit...
Crank batteries replaced the day before we set out this time (May '13) after they suddenly died.
OK 3 days before take-off; dead the day before...

[GregnDee]

We use a Dreampot in Australia and a Shuttlechef in England. We left the bread maker behind this trip, and make our own by hand now....Greg makes a really good loaf of bread in the oven. Yummy. He is also now making biscuits, cakes....

We find the Dreampot is all we need if we want to slow cook something, and what we often do is start it up in the morning, it's cooking as we travel, and when we stop I don't have to cook!

But we definitely have a lot of cooking equipment with us! It's something we love to do!

Paella on the choofer last night......

Cheers
Dee

[Greynomad]

Dee,
Can we come around to your place tomorrow night?
Fresh, home-baked bread & paella.
Mmmmmmm...

[Dot]

Dee's Paella would be worth you doing a non pit stop run from where you are to where Dee is. It was just beautiful. (crawl crawl)

[Greynomad]

As a matter of curiosity, Dee, where are you?

[BruceS]

And more to the point .......... has that dog trained you yet?