Eating Aboard.

[blush2]

Year away used a pressure cooker and a steamer. Food much as ashore at home. Sailed from the Solent to the Algarve then canaries and Azores then back again.

 

[Frogmogman]

No!

Just of whatever the chicken had been standing in before it met its doom.

Reminds me of Coluche’s bon mot about how apt the cockerel is as an emblem for France.

He said “ Le coq est le seul oiseau qui arrive à chanter les pieds dans la merde”.

 

[Minerva]

Interested to see how you would position on board as the stand is very heavy? We have a cobb we use when we can on board (takes a while to heat but can cook chicken well) on a piece of wooden work surface or on the pontoon on a table but having a pizza oven on the stern rail is a distinct step up if that’s the plan?

We have a centre cockpit boat and whilst I've not measured it, I am quite confident the Ooni would sit nicely on the aft cabin top. It's not too heavy at perhaps around 5-7kg(ish). Major consideration would be how to make sure the pizza stone was held nicely so it wouldn't break when it was in a locker, for that I think a pillow or scatter cushion repurposed from home and stuffed in the oven would be sufficient.

 

[rotrax]

How do you go about cleaning internally if cooking regularly aboard? I ask because at home we had to ban frying, as over time, a thin layer of grease was getting deposited on absolutely everything, everywhere. The quantities were minute, but for example, the back of the TV, which is 30ft away from an open plan kitchen, had a difficult to clean film on it. Even using the pressure cooker (also an Instant Pot) creates a jet of steam that carries with it tiny particles of whatever is inside, so that gets deposited on the ceiling above and requires regular cleaning around that area.

On board a yacht it would be infinitely more difficult to clean all the nooks and crannies than at home.

Do you/can you take any precautions against this sort of thing?

For five seasons of living onboard for at least four months, often five, keeping the galley and boat clean has not been a problem so far. The galley has two portlights, one over the cooker, one over the place we use the Instant Pot. Unless it is raining, these are opened when cooking.

Our boat has an easy to clean GRP inner liner with a smooth polished finish, no headlining in the galley area. Very easy to keep clean.

We have a genset - 8KW - and MIL's old mains handheld hand vaccum cleaner. A wipe with a white vinegar solution and the vac keeps the boat shipshape.

Frying is, however, kept to a minimum.