A little toaster oven make great cinnamon rolls and toast and small pizzas and biscuits for b's and g's and and....
I use my redneck hot water heater for hot water for hot chocolate , hot tea, coffee (singles the tea bag type) and also have hot water for dishes and some personal hygiene ( quick scrub of the stinky spots) I really like the coffee singles when I get an early morning visitor I hand him/her a cup of hot water and ask coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? The nice part about the coffee bags you can steep it as long as you want and make the coffee as strong as you want.
The 2 units don't take up a lot of room !
Here was another even more compact unit but the oven was a bit too small
bobhenry wrote:A little toaster oven make great cinnamon rolls and toast and small pizzas and biscuits for b's and g's and and....
I use my redneck hot water heater for hot water for hot chocolate , hot tea, coffee (singles the tea bag type) and also have hot water for dishes and some personal hygiene ( quick scrub of the stinky spots) I really like the coffee singles when I get an early morning visitor I hand him/her a cup of hot water and ask coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? The nice part about the coffee bags you can steep it as long as you want and make the coffee as strong as you want.
The 2 units don't take up a lot of room !
I'm boondocking about 75% of the time, so I need propane powered alternatives, but I can see the advantages to the electrical route if you have shore power. That galley is one of the biggest I've seen on a TD. Its got everything including the kitchen sink. The big oven is my "luxury" item. I do sacrifice space to keep it, but it does make friends when you can walk around a 20 degree camp handing out warm cinnamon rolls. Tom
My hatch supports are just 3/4" galvanized conduit that have a dowel and bolt in the top end that sticks in the hatch and a hole on the flattened bottom end that goes on a threaded stud with a wing not to lock it in place. I wanted to keep is simple and avoid the sagging hatch supports that seem to be on every hatchback car/suv. I have hit my head too many times on the back of an suv and decided that I did not want that in a camper.
I thought about putting a sink into ours but felt it would use up too much space once you add two water tanks, drain line and supply line. You will soon learn that you need every square inch in you teardrop for storage. We now use the blue 5 gallon water tank that you can get at big box stores (if there is no water available) and plastic pans/buckets for the sink(s). Remember when cleaning you typically need a soap bucket and a rinse bucket.
Another thing to think about with cooking and washing in the galley is the pests that may come with that. Ants have been known to come up our tires (one time only) and into the hatch after leftover food in the galley. Which could lead to ants in the pants in the middle of the night.
Bottom line. Build what you want its yours and you know best what you will want. Good Luck and post pictures.
"Twenty years form now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines... Explore. Dream. Discover" Mark Twain
While my adventure in building and using a teardrop has just begun, I have been camping for over 50 years. I was also a long-distance sailor, so I learned a fair amount on things I need, things I want and things that are fun to have. In sailboats, regardless of size, space is of a premium.
Since we returned to tent camping, we still wanted things we had in trailers and such. Here is a collapsible galley system I built for tent camping. Shelves hold a sink and the complete, removable water system. That is an on-demand hotwater heater we have used for a couple of years and it is fantastic. Cost is about $110 Amazon. It ties to both sink faucet and also a shower head. The entire water system is held on with 2 wing nuts and removes to fit into a tub that holds all water, electric and propane equipment.
I built a collapsible bathroom from the remains of an old canopy. So when that is up it holds both a portapotty and the shower. The "bathroom" is 3 feet square ( 9 square feet space) and 6+ feet tall. It collapses down to 2 feet tall and about 6" square. Water system snaps into either pressure water or has a small 12v pump on the other side of the heater for boondocking. We go to a lot of places where there is nothing and nothing nearby. A sink is an absolute and doesn't waste counter space when you put the cover on it.
A fun thing I got that has paid for itself many times over is a small, countertop icemaker. It sounds weird, but in our travels we will be gone anywhere from 1-2 months at a time. Ice gets darned expensive. During our 6 week trip out west last spring, using the $90 icemaker, we never once bought a bag of ice. We actually made so much we were giving it to the ranger at one location. It is 120v, but I can run it from either my inverter/solar generator or from my little Harbor Freight 800 watt generator.
On the solar generator, it is amazing. 50 watt panel from Amazon (Renogy I think) for like $80. Charge controller was another $20. I had an old pelican case and put the entire system in the case. That includes a deep cycle battery, 12 volt charging system, 2000 watt inverter. I'll find pics of it and post. That lets us run off solar, off of battery or off of 120v. We can create 120v from 12v. It is heavy and that system rides in our truck until we set up camp.
I have a small microwave that we have taken a few times and to be honest, it is almost never used. For coffee I have an old Bialetti Moka pot that I've used for years. It is small, aluminum, stovetop and makes the absolute best coffee you can ever imagine. It is actually designed for espresso and cappuccino, which Regina loves, but doing a 5:1 water:coffee makes the best cup of coffee you can imagine. Nothing like being in the middle of the desert, making the perfect cappuccino while throwing away ice.
In the above video I can tell you that you do not have to be real picky on how you put in your grounds. I use regular Maxwell House, put it in till it just rounds on the top then screw down the top. Video shows full strength and that is quite the punch, but do about a 4 or 5:1 dilution and you'll be amazed at how good the coffee is. No drip, no perc will ever match it. Costs is about $25 for the "12" cup model, which is espresso cups. Makes about 4 mugs of diluted American style coffee. dave
******* Dave and Regina - Enjoying old age, a LOT!
