Toast

[Wansworth]

I cannot imagine yachting without toast as it solves many eating menu problems and is comfort food.My last boat had a gas stove with a grill but prospective new purchase has no toasting facility.What would be the simplest path to toasting….I was thinking solar with an inverter and a household 240 toaster,how much solar would I need to toast?

 

[capnsensible]

We had a metal cage designed to go on top of a gas hob. Worked great. An easy Google.

 

[Wansworth]

We had a metal cage designed to go on top of a gas hob. Worked great. An easy Google.

Yes ,just remembered those,pyramids.Of course cheese on toast needs a grill which I forgot so it’s not just actual toast……whole new ball game….those pyramid toasty thingsinevitably burnt lots of slice mothers pride I recall

 

[lustyd]

According to a quick search toasters are about 1100W. If it runs for 6 minutes (for easy maths) that's around 9Ah at 12V and would take just over an hour on average for a 100W panel to replenish in good daylight.

Or upgrade the cooker to include a grill

 

[Bouba]

On my boat I got a toaster that has one long slot rather than parallel.....still two slices but takes up a lot less valuable counter space

 

[Wansworth]

On my boat I got a toaster that has one long slot rather than parallel.....still two slices but takes up a lot less valuable counter space

That’s invaluable info,thanks

 

[Poignard]

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[Bouba]

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Sandwich makers are one of those things that I can leave on the shelf for donkey’s years then suddenly go crazy and eat toasted sandwiches for every meal until I’m sick of it and back on the shelf it goes

 

[Bouba]

On a boat...the microwave is king

 

[Bouba]

There is another option to a sandwich maker...if they still make them...toast it bags...they are heat resistant sandwich bags...you make your sandwich, pop it in the bag, then put the bag in the pop up toaster...the disadvantage is that you don’t get that lovely compression and sealed like a pie edges...the advantage is that it’s quick and convenient

 

[Neeves]

If you simply want toast - then put a slice of your best home baked bread in a frying pan, heat the pan (any which way you have to heat pans) and hey presto the bread will burn - and you have a one sided bit of toast - flip over, repeat and you have 2 sided toast. Best then eaten hot with salted butter and homemade marmalade and a pot of freshly brewed REAL coffee.

No need for the complexity of grills, toasters, pyramids - unless you are one of those sad people without a frying pan.

You can try this at home to check suitability.

If you are ham fisted use a square (or rather rectangular) non stick Japanese sushi rectangular pan and then the toast will behave (and not slip out)

Jonathan

 

[14K478]

On a boat...the microwave is king

Have been slowly coming to that conclusion myself. Threw out the last inverter as it was a toy really; suspect a microwave will need a “proper one”.

 

[Neeves]

Have been slowly coming to that conclusion myself. Threw out the last inverter as it was a toy really; suspect a microwave will need a “proper one”.

Just make sure your inverter and microwave are compatible, preferably have a slightly larger inverter than microwave - as other wise some one will want coffee, switch on the kettle and you are all in darkness.

We had a microwave on Jsepheline. We used to watch the battery monitor display declining amps like the rotating wheels of a one armed bandit. We learnt to only use the microwave in a marina (mostly when we did the AF and were living on board).

But we never made toast with a microwave.

Jonathan

 

[14K478]

Just make sure your inverter and microwave are compatible, preferably have a slightly larger inverter than microwave - as other wise some one will want coffee, switch on the kettle and you are all in darkness.

We had a microwave on Jsepheline. We used to watch the battery monitor display declining amps like the rotating wheels of a one armed bandit. We learnt to only use the microwave in a marina (mostly when we did the AF and were living on board).

But we never made toast with a microwave.

Jonathan

You are right: a microwave is a lousy way to make toast. And thanks for the advice - if we decide to carry one, it will join the electric kettle and the immersion heater as “alongside only stuff!”

Now, as to toast, we have the Rolls-Royce of propane stoves - an OceanChef, which (and we have tested its makers’ proud boast) will produce six sides of perfect toast at a time - none of your “black in the middle and white at the sides” . But you do need to watch it - it doesn’t time itself like a domestic toaster.

 

[Poignard]

Sandwich makers are one of those things that I can leave on the shelf for donkey’s years then suddenly go crazy and eat toasted sandwiches for every meal until I’m sick of it and back on the shelf it goes

Same here.

We have a Breville sandwich maker lurking under the kitchen sink, amongst the mouse droppings and unwanted wedding presents, which rarely sees the light of day.

But your post has inspred me to dig it out and use it until, like you, I get fed up with it again and return it to its lair.

 

[Neeves]

You could use a toasting fork and a blow torch which offers another use for the blow torch (that you bought for the creme brulee).

Jonathan

 

[Poignard]

You could use a toasting fork and a blow torch which offers another use for the blow torch (that you bought for the creme brulee).

Jonathan

That would be the blow torch I have occasionally used to pre-heat the burner of my Taylors 065 paraffin cabin heater

 

[lustyd]

If you simply want toast - then put a slice of your best home baked bread in a frying pan, heat the pan

Even better, butter it before you start and it's delicious! For some reason bread fried in butter is seen as less healthy than toast covered in butter even though the quantity and ingredients may be identical.

 

[Bouba]

Have been slowly coming to that conclusion myself. Threw out the last inverter as it was a toy really; suspect a microwave will need a “proper one”.

This is the real secret to the microwave.....microwaveable hot water bottle....especially this one..



We have three of these on the boat.... I cook them one at a time...and they keep the bed toasty warm all night....we also send them as Christmas prezzies ....brilliant things....no more scalding myself filling hot water bottles while the boat rocks

 

[14K478]

I have a blow torch that I bought to try to undo a seized bolt holding a halyard winch to the mast. It failed miserably at this*. It does work on the antique Taylors two burner which is carried in case we run out of propane. It might be allowed to attempt crème brûlée.

* It was after the yard’s impact driver also failed that I realised the base of a Harken flat top winch and the base of the equivalent model self trailer are identical and built the self tailing top on the old base. Duh!