pvb
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He has plenty of space in the garden for solar panels.
Gas toaster
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He has plenty of space in the garden for solar panels.
BobnLesley
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We travelled half way around the world using those and even back ashore we think that they cook pizza better & faster than any conventional oven; just a pity you can only find them in about 8" or 9" diameter nowadays; those original 10" ones could hold a small pizza in one piece, rather than having to cut it into segments first. They'really good for making bread in too; again, far less gas needed than using an oven.
dunedin
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Have you done the maths on how much power an induction hob etc uses. Also read why Elcano flattened it's batteries, even with twin saildrive generators, solar etc
coopec
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I have a 3.5kva suitcase generator as well.
coopec
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I do have a 3.5KVA Gentrax suitcase generator as well which which I would use for heavy loads. Otherwise I would use 240V power from a 560ah battery bank. (I'll have to see how that would work in practice)
My thoughts on induction cooking have been influenced by a thread on Cruiser Forum where people commenting are wildly enthusiastic .
I'll have to do my sums and work out how much solar power I can install but right now it is way down the track.
Wow - Induction Cooktop
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Here are some figures.
KENOMAC
We’ve been using induction cooktops for six years, the reaction from those newly introduced seems universal....WOW!
We use nearly all solar for power generation via a 2500w inverter. Here’s some figures from last night generated for another thread:
Cook three fried eggs medium setting for five minutes: 2Ah
One fried steak on high for 5 minutes: 4Ah (would have been the same for two steaks)
Off subject: Nespresso machine used for 1 cup of coffee: .4Ah
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coopec
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How long do you run your toaster for to turn your bread into a cinder? ? Maybe one hour?
The efficiency of the induction cooktop can be as high as 80-84% compare to electrical resistance based cooktop which is 50-60% and LPG cooktop with only 40% .
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1624&context=eispapers1
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duncan99210
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Toast is best done in a dry frying pan. We’ve tried a number of stove top gadgets to make toast, none of which produced decent results. However, a dry frying pan works brilliantly: you just have to get it hot enough. Once it’s hot, it’ll produce toast in a couple of minutes. Never bothered covering it, just don’t use one of the fancy white ceramic coated ones: the toast will leave burnt residue on the coating which just won’t come clean.
Graham_Wright
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That's the one.
Graham_Wright
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But it takes a lot longer = more gas.
duncan99210
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No it doesn’t! Using any of the many gadgets takes at least as long to produce unsatisfactory results. Thats why we’ve junked the gadgets and just use the pan.
Neeves
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We are really old fashioned - we must be we make our own marmalade (from Seville Oranges) and if we have porridge - its made properly - none of that instant stuff.
I quite like the time I sit on the steps down to the galley, which allows me to sit with eyes at grill height, and watch the toast - toasting, waiting for the kettle to whistle to make French press coffee (instant is simply not tolerated). The location allows me to look out of the galley window (or is it a port light) as the sea rushes past (if we are on passage) and I can watch the iPad screen (simultaneous with the toast) displaying all the vital data (especially radar on split scree). It all has a slightly surreal but calming influence to the start of the day.
Why surreal - when I was 20, or 20 something (and an impecunious, Scots, student), in never crossed my consciousness that a few years later I would be sitting on galley steps, travelling up (or down) the Tasman Sea - making toast, on a gas grill, and fresh coffee with a whistling kettle (on a gas hob) (Only my grandmother used gas to boil a kettle).
Romanticism is still alive and well - in some of us - Induction hobs..... Pah!!!
Jonathan
I quite like the time I sit on the steps down to the galley, which allows me to sit with eyes at grill height, and watch the toast - toasting, waiting for the kettle to whistle to make French press coffee (instant is simply not tolerated). The location allows me to look out of the galley window (or is it a port light) as the sea rushes past (if we are on passage) and I can watch the iPad screen (simultaneous with the toast) displaying all the vital data (especially radar on split scree). It all has a slightly surreal but calming influence to the start of the day.
Why surreal - when I was 20, or 20 something (and an impecunious, Scots, student), in never crossed my consciousness that a few years later I would be sitting on galley steps, travelling up (or down) the Tasman Sea - making toast, on a gas grill, and fresh coffee with a whistling kettle (on a gas hob) (Only my grandmother used gas to boil a kettle).
Romanticism is still alive and well - in some of us - Induction hobs..... Pah!!!
Jonathan
gordmac
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I use one of those in my camper (no gas in boat). Works well enough but too quickly even with gas turned down. I get well done on the outside and"raw" in the middle.
fisherman
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used to get wonderful toast on an Aga, on the hotplate, put the lid down.
Graham_Wright
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Big boat?
Neeves
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fisherman
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One boat, 50ft ex Scot, had an oil fired Rayburn in the deckhouse, ran on diesel. Second best breakfast I ever had, going W round the lizard at 0600 in december, last day at sea before Christmas, the cupboards were emptied, eggs bacon bread sausages all went in best thing was the tinned new pots, all together in a 2ft frying pan.
1st was in Arbroath, quayside cafe, two finnans, two eggs, toms, chips, doorstep, mug of tea 50p. (1974)
1st was in Arbroath, quayside cafe, two finnans, two eggs, toms, chips, doorstep, mug of tea 50p. (1974)
fisherman
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On N Sea trawlers some coal was traditionally kept in the jolly boat on the after deck.
penfold
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I was sanguine until the atrocity occurred; who thinks spaghetti, hoops or otherwise, are an appropriate breakfast component? This is a breakfast warcrime.
Restoration man
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Ok hears my “possibility” Controversial idea , get a 240v “alternator style” Generator that bolts to the engine , then buy a cheap 240v toaster from Argos and just Start the engine for 2 minutes when you want to do the toast, job done ??, ok some will say starting the engine and running it for 2 mins will ruin it , and the cost of the parts etc and not to mention that Greta thunberg wouldn’t like the carbon
Emissions much just to make some toast ?????? but you would get some nice toast on board
Emissions much just to make some toast ?????? but you would get some nice toast on board
coopec
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Are you serious? ?
