Cooking on Tour

[Art Deco]

Camping Carbs

 

[Art Deco]

Spices in magnetic parts containers (rare earth magnets stay stuck at highway speeds).

 

[Art Deco]

Folding camp stool or table. Doesn't work for males as a stool, though.

 

[Art Deco]

A camper's crockpot. Basically an overpriced wide mouth thermos with removable inner liner that you heat on the stove or coals. Put ingredients in, heat it up, and put it in the outer thermos while you ride (several hours minimum) and you have a hot cooked meal (stew, soup, beans, potatos, etc). ready when you stop.

 

[Art Deco]

If you have a Sagwagon, pickup truck, or other van, you might want to install a galley.

Mine came with a tiny power switching refrigerator, a marine sink and faucet w/propane water heater and a two burner propane stove, and a FantasticFan in the roof. Ventilation is really important with propane, and there are pictures of my and @ChezCheese:) galley here.

My van is a good start, but adding high voltage electricity beyond the default microwave really allows a much better camping experience. A compressor refrigerator, induction cooktop, pizza oven, and instant water heater would be nice. All need electricity.
( And we are eBikers after all, we need electricity anyway).

 

[Prairie Dog]

We did plenty of kayak camping in the past and could apply some of those ideas to bike/RV camping as well. I agree that with existing fire bans in effect one has to be reliant on other forms of cooking methods. We still have a couple of older but reliable MSR Dragonfly and Whisperlite gas stoves.

Chocolate Fondue with pound cake and any fruit that travels well makes for a decadent apres dinner treat.



From time to time when there were no open fire pit bans we would sear tandoori style kebobs/flatbread and shuck fresh oysters from the ocean, then dredge them in Panko crumbs and fry them until golden brown.

 

[webcurl]

Spices in magnetic parts containers (rare earth magnets stay stuck at highway speeds).

Where to buy a Steel framed ebike?

 

[webcurl]

I've found:
You could carry almost twice as much food/cooking gear on a bike compared to a rucksack.
Twice as much gear in a Kayak compared to a bike.
Way more in a van compared to a Kayak.

 

[Art Deco]

I've found:
You could carry almost twice as much food/cooking gear on a bike compared to a rucksack.
Twice as much gear in a Kayak compared to a bike.
Way more in a van compared to a Kayak.

But never enough...

 

[Art Deco]

We did plenty of kayak camping in the past and could apply some of those ideas to bike/RV camping as well. I agree that with existing fire bans in effect one has to be reliant on other forms of cooking methods. We still have a couple of older but reliable MSR Dragonfly and Whisperlite gas stoves.

Chocolate Fondue with pound cake and any fruit that travels well makes for a decadent apres dinner treat.

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From time to time when there were no open fire pit bans we would sear tandoori style kebobs/flatbread and shuck fresh oysters from the ocean, then dredge them in Panko crumbs and fry them until golden brown.

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My first good Stove was a brass cylinder made by the swiss Seva IIRC.It burned unleaded gasoline stored in the base . My daughter still has it, but that doesn't mean it still works. I enjoy camp cooking on a double burner propane stove on a picnic table too.

Edit: I prefer an electric induction cooktop like a NuWave http://www.nuwavepic.com/ plugged into the van, on a table under the canopy. I do all prep and clean up in the galley.

 

[Art Deco]

Or how to ride one .

Where to buy a Steel framed ebike?

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Or how to ride one .

Steel is OK. I used to ride a steel road bike in the past and never thought of the need of any suspension such compliant the steel frame was. The first encounter with aluminium frames was painful for me. Even if aluminium is three times lighter than iron, you need to use thrice of Al to get the same stiffness from the frame. And now they are telling you "get the carbon fibre, it's compliant!" But I hear of cracked CF frames and never met a cracked steel one.

Sorry for this little rant.

 

[Art Deco]

That's OK. I was just thinking of adding yet more weight and higher speeds to an already loaded bike or trailer. Cargo bikers amaze me, TBH.

 

[Art Deco]

I've found:
You could carry almost twice as much food/cooking gear on a bike compared to a rucksack.
Twice as much gear in a Kayak compared to a bike.
Way more in a van compared to a Kayak.

And the van can carry the bikes and the kayak, but not the reverse. There is a great inage in the daily rides thread of a bike pulling a Kayak by @PowerflyLee formerly known as CheetahLee BTW.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

@PowerflyLee formerly known as CheetahLee

He seems to ride a high-end traditional bike nowadays!

 

[Art Deco]

Can't link but search "trailer " by @PowerflyLee formerly known as CheetahLee. He had several in the daily rides in words pictures & maps thread. He even combined a float with bike trip once IIRC. Very cool.
Edit for pic ...

 

[Art Deco]

We did plenty of kayak camping in the past and could apply some of those ideas to bike/RV camping as well. I agree that with existing fire bans in effect one has to be reliant on other forms of cooking methods. We still have a couple of older but reliable MSR Dragonfly and Whisperlite gas stoves.

Chocolate Fondue with pound cake and any fruit that travels well makes for a decadent apres dinner treat.

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From time to time when there were no open fire pit bans we would sear tandoori style kebobs/flatbread and shuck fresh oysters from the ocean, then dredge them in Panko crumbs and fry them until golden brown.

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Many wonderful recipes on the net, of course, but this is a NuWave recipe page of small meals ... https://nuwavecooktop.com/common/PCJAH06/recipes.asp
And the RV Goddess in a big class A

Recipes

NOTE TO READERS: I have started the painful process of moving my vast recipe collection to this website. Please be patient. Thank you. – TerryAPPETIZERSBaked FetaBuffalo Wing DipBuffalo Chick…

rvgoddess.com

 

[Art Deco]

He seems to ride a high-end traditional bike nowadays!

At least he is riding something after his accident .

 

[webcurl]

Steel is OK. I used to ride a steel road bike in the past and never thought of the need of any suspension such compliant the steel frame was. The first encounter with aluminium frames was painful for me. Even if aluminium is three times lighter than iron, you need to use thrice of Al to get the same stiffness from the frame. And now they are telling you "get the carbon fibre, it's compliant!" But I hear of cracked CF frames and never met a cracked steel one.

I've been saving money all my life for a Specialized Titanium ebike!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I've been saving money all my life for a Specialized Titanium ebike!

An anecdote: A friend of mine who shares his interests between road and gravel cycling got to his mind he'd like a steel gravel bike. Last Autumn, people here were fighting to get a Marin FourCorners, a steel gravel bike, and my friend managed to buy one. Only to discover the Marin "while an excellent gravel bike, it didn't want to become a road bike whatever I tried to do to her" as he put it out Eventually, he sold his Marin to get a Specialized Diverge (a traditional sibling of the Creo), and the latter could play both roles (with different wheel sets).

Sorry for not participating here on-topic. I love reading your stories but myself believe the best food is what you get at a restaurant (while on tour)

A Polish lunch. See the salads.

A Czech lunch. The Czech seem not to serve any salads to their meals! Stewed (or marinated) vegetables are being served instead.