Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Andrew Herrick wrote:While there is merit to both solutions, I lean on the side of a camping stove. There is a greater accessible variety in style, size and quality of portable camping stoves than of RV drop-in stoves. You can spend $40 on a Coleman or $300 on a Partner Steel. Plus, portable stoves are just that - portable! Why limit yourself to cooking in your galley on a 72-degree summer evening? Also, camping stoves can be removed from counters to make room for meal preparation. And lastly, drop-in stoves do best with at least some "hard" plumbing. Camping stoves run fine off 1-lb propane cylinders, or you can install a small hatch in your wall and run a quick-disconnect line to a tongue-mounted propane cylinder whenever it's necessary. If all you're wanting to do is run a stove, that's easier than working with copper flare fittings or threaded black iron piping, IMHO (if you're running a hot water heater, my last point is moot).

Andrew Herrick wrote:While there is merit to both solutions, I lean on the side of a camping stove. There is a greater accessible variety in style, size and quality of portable camping stoves than of RV drop-in stoves. You can spend $40 on a Coleman or $300 on a Partner Steel. Plus, portable stoves are just that - portable! Why limit yourself to cooking in your galley on a 72-degree summer evening? Also, camping stoves can be removed from counters to make room for meal preparation....

• I can see why one might want a stove/cooktop installed inside their camper...our 20-ft travel trailer has one (with the necessary ventahood over it), and it is perfect for the job, in a trailer you can spend several days inside, without ever going outside, if that's what you want.
• But, in a smaller trailer, and/or standy, if cooking outdoors is what you want (nobody grills a steak inside if they can do it outside), the venerable Coleman white gas stove (there is nothing like the aroma of white gas cooking, at least to me) is what you want, plus a mini-sized charcoal grill. If I were building a small standy, I would install a stainless, or phenolic heat-resistant countertop, without the usual cooktop installed, and a similar shield on the wall behind, leaving a space to place your Coleman, or mini-grille on top. Of course, having a window close-by, an overhead ventahood on, and a nearby fire-extinguisher would be required, too. And a charcoal starter canister (initially used outside the trailer, to preclude tall flame-ups), for the small grille (my choice is the Ikea Korpon grill, which only needs a canister full, of briquettes).
• Using these items, you could cook inside or outside, and still be able to use the bare countertop space for food prep before the fires are lit; there would be no propane lines to install and have to check for leaks before every trip, and having that bare spot inside the trailer would be golden, for many other uses between mealtimes.

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travist wrote:So I will have a rear hatch galley like most tear drops, so if I install a stove into the counter it will still be used outside. I have no plans on using it inside, nor space to us it in there.

I will definitely be carrying a fire extinguisher, but unless I'm wrong since I'm outside in the galley I don't need a hood fan/vent.

Shadow Catcher wrote:We have an Atwood three burner and Nancy has no complaints, the true test