What cooking appliances do you take on longer trips

[Dot]

Not the weekend or 2 week trips but the ones that lead into mths, yrs??
I was looking at taking one of the new stick mixers that do heaps of stuff instead of a seperate beater, mixer etc

Who takes things like bread makers, electric frypans, and such??

[Swisslulu]

Dot, as you know we are apprentices at this travelling stuff. However, FWIW (for what it's worth) we take a Dream Pot (first day out from home with Silverside so we have an evening meal and then cold meat for a few days), the BabyQ, a food processor from Aldi (small), a choofer made from a cut down gas bottle, a gas stove using a butane cylinder, lots of frozen home made meals. We also take our Aldi coffee machine which you SAers won't have. Apart from that we do it all from scratch. Remember we have a small van (16.6 internal) so not a lot of free space. But we have done 2 x 5 week trips with this configuration with no issues. Come the 1st March we will be hitting the road for 7 months. Things could be different then.

[Ros20549]

Hi Dot. I take my Breadmaker, only use when we have power usually make a couple of loves if we go free camping, used to take a lot of other stuff but each trip things I don't use stays home the next time... I have a single elec. hot plate for when we are on power perfer to cook outside than inside. A small George Forum Roasting Machine can do allsorts of things in that, a med. size pot to boil some silverside etc. or make a pot of soup, a little food type processor that has a hand held stick wiz thing with it,used to take hand mixer don't now, we also have a two burner gas stove and a little butane gas stove that we can take when we go out for the day, and apart form that the usual pots and pans only a couple of each , a elec kettle and one to use on gas when free camped and a toaster for when we are on power..and few trays and cake tins for when I get the need to cook.. also a camp oven and I think thats it. Most items have more than use. We don't take the Baby Q as we use camp kitchens for just make our own BBQ... Things I now leave home.... Fry Pan, hand held beaters, sandwhich press, electic knife, elec. grill, heaps of tupperware, extra glasses, fancy serving trays and I could go one . Hope this helps..

Cheers Ros.

[supersparky]

Dot, We take a Coleman Road Grill (small 4 burner bbq) big enough to cook a roast.It also doubles as the outside stove. A choofer and camp oven. Occasionally an electric frypan, hand beater, electric jug. Usually heaps of frozen stuff, which if you manage it properly will defrost through the day and also fresh vegies, because after a while you will want to go to the shops anyway. Well most women do anyway. I usually try to wangle it to get to the pub for a feed every now and then and also to test if their beer is as cold as the beer in my fridge. Usually the pub wins.
After a few trips you need to look in the cupboard and if you have forgotten it was there then chuck it away because you obviously don't need it.

[Craig]

We left home 4 years ago with a couple of pots and a stove top fry pan. That has grown to a 2 slice toaster, electric fry pan, turbo oven, slow cooker, sandwich toaster, hand blender and electric mixer. It's how we roll, it's not a camping holiday

Also a single burner gas stove and the Baby Q.

[Rover All Over]

HI Dot,

I think the best way to gauge what you need is to take a look at what you use even on shorter trips, if you can manage even a few weeks then you can manage without long term as well.

From our experience we start out light, if you find there is something you just can't live without then you can always buy it, even if you have that particular thing at home already it can become a part of the motorhome equipment and you won't have to worry about packing and unpacking it for each trip.

[Dot]

Thanks guys and gals, just as I thought, Anacondaman does not need to take the sandwich press, the waffle maker, donut maker, milk shake mixer, or the fairy floss maker.. Looks like there shall be lots of extra meals been frozen. Did a test run on dehydrating potatoes but made the mistake of adding the butter and milk then dehydrated it = failure.. Will have another trial when this hot weather has gone again.. Have frozen heaps of peaches and plums next will be the apples... So for now I will take Dream pot, turbo cooker, stick mixer with super attachments, kettle for the gas, jug for power, toaster for power, saucepan with steamer. Worming treatments for G.

[T1 Terry]

What about the bread maker, the slowcooker, the coffee percolator, cast iron frypan, wok, all essential cooking gear. I like the stick mixers with the bowl attachment that has a chopper blade in it, great for making chocolate chip, date and walnut cookies

[Dot]

The more cooking I can get out of all the better.

[Craig]

Well in that case Dot all you'll need to take is the KFC vouchers