Oz Truckies Wife

[juliedun]

Hi all was googling for 12 volt oven recipes and found you lot.

Other half is an interstater and like many of them on the roads these days they are fed up with A) the costs of eating out everyday, and B) that the vast majority of the roadhouses are just fast food outlets and while for the masses who require fast foods, to appease their kids while on the road, the truckies of this country are seeking better healthier choices.
So here i am. hope to learn a few ideas and maybe get permission to share them elsewhere. Look forward to any recipes or ideas you may wish to share with me

 

[dragonflyinthesky]

Welcome I'm glad you stumbled upon us. There are a few food threads here that deal with using less power.

 

[Patrick46]

I've seen recipie books for truckers who cook dinners on their manifolds.

http://www.amazon.com/Diesel-Dining-The-Manifold-Cooking/dp/159433126X

 

[user 423]

I've seen recipie books for truckers who cook dinners on their manifolds.

Yeah, my dad told me about travelling in his Model A and doing that. I'm tasting baked 'tater right now.

 

[Patrick46]

I'm tasting baked 'tater right now.

yeah, that was one thing I've done mysself a few times. (I used to drive semi-trucks cross-country too.)

Take a potatoe, slice it, put a gob of butter in the middle, wrap it in tin foil, and put it on top of the manifold for about 20 MILES or so.
Once you open it, then salt, pepper, and some cheeze makes a quick groovy meal! (the edges were sometimes burned a bit, but I didn't do it often enough to 'fine tune' my baking times.)

I did carry a hot-pan that plugged into the cig lighter. I heated soups, water for drinks, and even made pop-corn in it. I was vandwelling in a semi-tractor.


btw Julie...what part of Oz do you call home?? We have a dear family friend who lives in Adelaide.

 

[akrvbob]

I assume you are talking about the little Roadpro 12 volt oven that looks like a black lunchbox? I have one and love it. It cooks great meals. I've made Jiffy Mix corn bread and brownies in mine. Unfortunately I generally just use mine to warm up frozen meals which it does exceptionally well. there are some surprisingly healthy and tasty frozen meals available, so that my be something for your hubby to consider. Or maybe you could make him some healthy meals and freeze them and he would take those in a cooler to warm up as needed.

I have some friends who are a married couple who live fulltime in their van they use their Roadpro all the time to cook real meals. I think the main thing was to take it into a store with a lot of kitchen-ware and find a loaf pan that will fit inside it and use the loaf pan to even out the temperature. Used that way it is like a crock-pot and you can make almost anything you would make in a crock-pot. But you may want to stick with meals that don't take as long.

It's especially good with eggs and if I remember right she put the eggs and all the ingredients they like for an omelette in a Zip-Lock bag and put that right into the loaf pan in the oven and left it in there till it was done and poured it out into a plate and ate it or he could eat it right out of the bag and have no dishes.

I'm pretty sure she also said that she made meat loaf in it just like she would have at home and then put that into the loaf pan in the oven and it turned out great.

Sorry, I wished I remembered more.
Bob

 

[akrvbob]

One more thought, I have a book called Fix it With Foil and it is filled with recipes of foods wrapped in Foil and cooked on a grill, or charcoal. I bet every recipe could be cooked in the RoadPro after you wrapped it in foil.

http://www.amazon.com/Fix-Foil-CQ-Products/dp/1563832607/

Bob

 

[GotSmart]

One more thought, I have a book called Fix it With Foil and it is filled with recipes of foods wrapped in Foil and cooked on a grill, or charcoal. I bet every recipe could be cooked in the RoadPro after you wrapped it in foil.

http://www.amazon.com/Fix-Foil-CQ-Products/dp/1563832607/

Bob

Hey!! No advertising on Bobs forum! (teasing)

Great ideas, I am glad I found this thread. RoadPro? Good to know. Also abut your book, Bob! I once did a roast with carrots and taters on the engine of a Chevy Vega. After about 250 miles it was fall apart tender! That was more than 30 years ago!

 

[helinwheels]

Welcome and I really appreciate the cooking ideas. My dad was a lineman in Fairbanks and I remember they used their manifolds to heat foods. So, thanks, fellow Oregonian Patrick for the link!

 

[blkjak]

welcome .... blkjak

 

[akrvbob]

Oooops! No, the book isn't "mine" in the sense I wrote it, it's mine because I bought it from Amazon. Anyone who knows me knows I am nowhere near a good enough cook to write a cookbook!!
Bob

 

[GotSmart]

You made me laugh Bob. As creative as you are, I could see you doing this exact thing and writing a book about it.

 

[akrvbob]

Actually, I've given serious thought to a "Road Warriors Cookbook" covering these many various kinds of cooking. I have many friends who are very good at all of them so I would just collect their wisdom and compile it. Alas, no time, so it will never happen.

My girlfriend prefers to drive so I am going to mainly be a passenger on the Alaska trip. I'm going to take the opportunity to work on writing another book. I have a couple of topics in mind so I'll have to narrow it down.
Bob

 

[decodancer]

I got a set of toaster oven pans on Amazon, they would most likely fit in your oven. I just put a post on my blog about eating cheap and quick. You might get a few idea for easy meals. Sorry guys, I hope you don't think I'm advertising, I don't even have ads on my blog....yet LOL

 

[akrvbob]

decodancer, no problem with referencing your blog, we all win that way. If you've already written something out once no reason to type it out again, just put up a link.

It can go too far but I don't think anyone ever has.
Bob

 

[decodancer]

Thanks Bob, I love this site. Reading your blog was what made me want to start my own. Even though I'm not on the road right now, I'm still a fulltimer. Before I started workamping I searched everywhere for info on it. The blog gives me a creative outlet that doesn't cost a thing.

 

[Unchained]

For anyone unfamiliar with the Roadpro stove, here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/RoadPro-12-Vo...&qid=1394132117&sr=8-1&keywords=roadpro+stove

 

[Patrick46]

Mine wasn't as nice as those RoadPro stoves...mine was identical to this...

http://www.amazon.com/12V-Sauce-Pan...id=1394169083&sr=8-14&keywords=12+volt+cooker

 

[Pikachu711]

Welcome to the group juliedun!