Where to get power while traveling?
I'm going to be spending 1.5 weeks traveling around California and am taking along my 7 in 1 cooker. I'd like to cook my meals while not in a hotel/motel situation. Where can one "plug in", to say, make a hot lunch?? Any suggestions?
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Portable generator?
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When you're "not in a hotel/motel situation," where will you be?
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on the road between northern and southern CA.
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Look into using the cigarette lighter in your car.
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Rather than the cigarette lighter / power port which will have a limitation of around 100 to 150W max (far short of the power needed for a 7-1., look under the hood. You can connect a 1000 inverter directly to your battery. They can be found at any auto parts store or online.
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Check into a campground and plug it in.
Gas station bath room? Someone may pound on the door even as fast as those Instant Pots are. |
Gas station bath room? No way, no how would I bring anything consumable anywhere near such a place.
How about solar panels? |
And how will you be storing food? I understand wanting to save money but not sure this is the answer.
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How about a flameless ration heater (FRH) like the military uses to heat MREs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flameless_ration_heater No other power source needed. |
Why not make the food when you ARE in a motel with power. Then keep it in your cooler on ice, and heat with a small camp stove.
Or eat a sandwich. Do you really need a hot lunch everyday? This seems like a lot of work and I doubt you'll save much money. |
Just adding on to my post above... Wouldn't a little propane camp stove be a lot easier and more convenient to use for a road trip than an InstaPot requiring electricity?
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sounds like you are hoping to camp rough (not that easy to do most places) or on a very small budget - I doubt you want to spend the $150-$200 for a 1000 w inverter. A MRE flameless heater would cost a lot less.
But you ask "where to plug in?" which seems you are really asking where -- not how to heat things in your car. I would NOT think any entity/business/bldg would fit your needs. Maybe come back and give us more details |
suze's suggestion of a small stove makes sense to me.
My husband and I have an MSR backpacking cannister stove we can use to heat water or other one-pan items (soup usually). |
Does anyone think we will hear from him again? ;o)
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We sometimes make a hot lunch for picnics while traveling, but we just use a camp stove and/or tabletop grill.
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test
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If I were attempting this, and it is in fact a car trip leaving from home, I would do all the cooking at home, then freeze things in individual plastic containers, and take them in a cooler, then heat them up on a one burner stove. That makes a lot more sense (well none of this makes sense but that's a slightly better plan).
I mean think about it, how are you going to chop vegetables and cook from scratch when you're in a car? Even if you can find electricity to run your InstaPot somehow at the side of the road. |
What are you testing, ibobi?
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Originally Posted by suze
(Post 16912762)
What are you testing, ibobi?
I think it has something to do with a thread in Tech Support about a problem Vttraveler had posting on this thread. https://www.fodors.com/community/for...sting-1666539/ |
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