Wansworth
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Well if is a nice French baggget,who needs toastDon’t you mean....The staff of life is better toasted
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Frogmogman
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We have a Cobb BBQ. Light, compact, and the outside casing remains cool. I bought it half price in an end of season sale.
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Our boat came with a 2 burner hob only; no grill or oven, which is adequate for most of the hot food we eat on board. I was hesitant about replacing the hob with an oven for reasons of cost and space (the space beneath the hob is very useful storage. With the Cobb we have successfully cooked roasts, grilled fish and steaks etc. It also has the advantage of keeping the cabin free of strong cooking smells.
oldmanofthehills
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You are lucky to have that rear deck to have the BBQ on, many boats dont, though some have BBQ attached to stern rail similarly but opposite the liferaft. However a 2 burner stove with no grill is as good or better than our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had and yet they could still cook, and if capable could cook excellent food. Domestic ovens are a late victorian item, and our great grandmothers mostly used the local bakers oven sunday off time for their pasties pies and similar. Hence sunday roast.
One can roast in a dutch oven at a pinch (inverted biscuit tin or le cruisier on steel plate), though I prefer pot roast myself, but its still useful for beadmaking
Wansworth
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many neighbors still use their pr heated wood ovens for the Sunday dinner and the weeks bread and assorted pies,
Kelpie
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The Cobb, and the similar Lotus which we have, are completely portable. We've used ours on the foredeck and cockpit floor, wherever makes sense at the time. Usually goes on the aft deck. Very civilised piece of kit compared to a 'real' barbeque.
wombat88
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Off topic but I once had proper fried bread cooked on the top of what I think was a Pithers stove while at anchor in Omonville.
One of the high points of my yachting life...
One of the high points of my yachting life...
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I've made toast with a blowtorch and it wasn't very satisfactory - the flame is too hot, and the very surface of the bread quickly blackens while the inner zone remains soft. So you don't get the crunch of proper toast.
The frying pan technique is fine though, and for cheese on toast, just fry a cheese sandwich.
The frying pan technique is fine though, and for cheese on toast, just fry a cheese sandwich.
Bouba
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Two thousand years of technology peaked with the development of the pop up toaster…and people want to go back to a camp fire 
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One of my special moments at sea is a rare, still summers evening sat in the cockpit with a west highland sized dram, 35.5ml or the old quarter gill*, of decent single malt.Being a cat.... our galley was down in one of the hulls and sitting on the steps down to the galley and watching the bread toast with a mug of fresh coffee in hand and glancing out off the saloon windows, iPad propped up displaying radar, was one of life's simple pleasures.
Its really not the same 'on land' - you would never sit and watch an electric toaster.
Jonathan
*as I am pouring this is the usual minimum measure.
Fr J Hackett
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A toast moment, having sailed direct from Plymouth to La Rochelle and mooring up on the pontoons at the old quay ( always first choice above Minimes ) My friend and I set about the usual arrival of a large full English breakfast in the cockpit and put the electric toaster on the bridge deck so that we could help ourselves to toast as needed. A woman and her husband walked past and an seeing us remarked to her husband 'Oh they have a toaster why don't we have one' They came back not long after as we were lounging about after breakfast drinking coffee with the coffee machine having replaced the toaster she repeated ' look they have a coffee machine as well' we collapsed laughing and offered them a coffee.