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[Stickinthemud57]

Yes, the crockpot is super handy. Queso dip, quesadillas (cut in quarters), pulled pork, brisket, beans, etc. Anything that will fit, and I find it to be the perfect serving temperature.

Correction. It is rated to draw 50 watts, not the 150 I said earlier.

[kurz]

Hello all
here my cooking gadget:

My new nespresso machine! Use normal nespresso capsules...
On the left you see the cardanic origo 3000. So you make hot water, fill it in the Nespresso machine... press the button and with 12V and very less Amps you get your coffee.

You also can make your water hot with just the Hibrew, takes longer and takes more from your 12V battery. To just pump the coffee through the nespresso capsule you even can use USB Power...

[BOAT]

This seems like a popular post. I for one do not share all your excitement about cooking because I can't. I do get five star meals sometimes but it's because of my wife but really, on the boat I try to take the burden off her and I take her out to eat if we are in port. Out on the hook with no amenities these things work pretty good:



They got chickens marsala and other stuff too. I don't know much about cooking (I don't even know what a marsala is but it tastes good with chickens).

For me when I was alone on a boat as a kid I was happy with sardines and hardtack - I could eat that every day forever - hot dogs too if I decided to hassle with boiling water. So, I guess I am not a good person for advice on cooking but you guys seem to have it wired so maybe you can give me some advice as I am in the middle of a project that needs your input. The galley in boat is in need of some maintenance so there are several items up for repair.

The ZODI shower I use for hot water in the galley began to leak at the valve:



This valve has really strange threads so I can't replace it since ZODI has gone out of business. Cheap Chinese battery operated plastic showers have run ZODI out of business so I can't get parts. I will be changing the hot water system over to an electric pump but keeping the stainless tank because I like a tank you can put directly on the stove to heat up the water. That's still the best way to do it.

Next you will see my Origo 2100 is sitting on my workbench =



and although it's still working fine I needed to remove it for the electric pump mod so it will get much needed cleaning. The Origo is a great stove because it burns really HOT, (shower water in 11 minutes and boiling water pot in 4). Alcohol burns HOT, I like it - too bad they are going to ban it. You will also see the dead bolt for the galley slide there in my fingers is broken - that just happened so I have the replacement sitting there to be installed. (Fixing things that are breaking)

So now the galley is all tore apart, the faucet is removed =



And the stove is out and water tanks set aside =



I really like the 2.5 gallon tanks because they are easy to handle in a dingy - I can't manage 5 and 10 gallon water tanks in the dingy - they are too heavy. These little tanks allow me to stow water in the floor of the dingy during transport and they are easy to hide in small spaces all over the boat down low where you want the weight =



As you can see I can stow several of these little 2.5 gallon cubes down near the permanent ballast and just pull out cubes as needed. They are just right because one cube will do one shower for two people or enough for several days in the galley. This also makes the utility of the sliding galley a shining feature of the M boat: That huge area under the galley is very large and where we stow our inflatable dingy - you can see how huge that space is and being able to slide away the galley makes it easy for me to wrestle the dingy into that space =



So now that I have everything tore apart it's time to take advantage of any mod ideas you guys have come up with. I can incorporate your cooking galley ideas into my repair schedule. So what are your recommendations? I like gimbal stove ideas and coffee makers and all the other great stuff you guys do all I ask is that your recommendations do not require me to lose the sliding feature of the galley - that's critical for stowing a big shore dingy. We used to stow it forward but I have a secret for you: the M boat is already heavy on the starboard side - you need to add your heavy stuff to port to balance the boat, so let's load up that galley!

[OverEasy]

Hi BOAT!

The Mac26X is also a bit heavy on the Port side!
It’s the galley and battery side. (With a 2nd battery and an A/C unit on that side I only exaggerated the propensity )

We’re contemplating if we’re adding on anything it’s gotta fit to the Starboard side to start balancing things out!

We took our alcohol stove out to avoid any open flames inside of the cabin and only cook on an electric induction or electric rice cooker or electric hot pot or electric heater…..kind of a theme

Currently that is only when on shore power.
Maybe we’ll add another 2 batteries and a high wattage inverter …. If we ever get to summer cruises off marina shore power a generator under the helm seat.

After years as a city ambulance medic and some up close and personal experiences with fire I try and just avoid it especially when surrounded by combustible materials in confined spaces… and 24 gallons of fuel….just my personal perspective.

We originally purchased a nice stainless steel propane grill for the boat but I never could bring myself to install it so if we bring it along for shore picnics with the gas cylinder stored outside when it’s aboard. Same with a foldaway two burner propane stove. If push came to shove they might get possibly used atop the companionway slider and only with no one below decks. Again it’s a personal thing.

Just bought new current marine grade all purpose fire extinguishers this past spring to stay current.
The old ones still have good gage indication but they are vintage from the excellent POs so I don’t know the storage or history of them.
I’ll take advantage of the change out to allow my Admiral to practice on putting out practice fires in the back yard fire pit.
Might even invite the local fire department rep over to help with the demo and practice session.
It never hurts to have a current professional do actual training… it’ll also good experience for my Admiral as she has never discharged and extinguisher.. or experienced how very little time they have being discharged. Years (decades) ago I gave her a walk through training for household type situations bu a boat on water is a different thing… less forgiving.

I’ve used alcohol stoves in the past but I’ve always disliked the nearly clear flame it produces.
I use to add copper or iron wire across where the tip of the flame is located to give myself something of a visual indicator that there was a flame.

I’ve heard of guys taking the engine cools water discharge and routing it through a heat exchanger to provide cabin heat in some places.
The same approach could be used to heat a shower water tank possibly.

My Dad and I used to “cook” on top of the engine on cross country road trips when I was younger by wrapping the hot dogs and chilli in several layers of aluminum foil atop the exhaust manifold

I like your instant meals!
Hot water and you’ve got a nice tasty meal with very little mess.

I can also relate to the hard tack and jerky … always sorta liked that approach when out on my own hiking in my much younger days.
One can travel relatively light and compactly for extended periods of time.

Best Regards,
Over Easy

[BOAT]

Hi BOAT!

The Mac26X is also a bit heavy on the Port side!


We took our alcohol stove out to avoid any open flames inside of the cabin and only cook on an electric induction or electric rice cooker or electric hot pot or electric heater…..kind of a theme

Currently that is only when on shore power.

Over Easy

Hey overeasy how are you doing? It's good to hear from you.

I said the M boat was heavy on the starboard side, not the port side. The M boat has a lot of fiberglass liner on the starboard side - that is where the head and dinette is. Not that it's important but I thought I should mention it because earlier versions of the M boat were even worse than mine because Roger had not only the dinette and the head on the starboard side but the galley too! I don't know if any of those early versions of the M are still around but they had EVERYTHING on the starboard side. Not the best weight planning.

I think the X boat is better balanced than the M and with it's flatter bottom it's not as prone to rolling to one side like the M boat.

I like your electric ideas - I wish there was a way to get enough solar on our boats to go more all electric.

[Stickinthemud57]

I like your electric ideas - I wish there was a way to get enough solar on our boats to go more all electric.

As solar panel technology advances, perhaps someone will come up with solar sails, right?

[pitchpolehobie]

I like your electric ideas - I wish there was a way to get enough solar on our boats to go more all electric.

As solar panel technology advances, perhaps someone will come up with solar sails, right?

My boat is solar. Years ago the sunlight caused plants to grow and then they compressed over time into a black slippery substance left underground and was pumped up to serve the needs of humanity. My boat now runs on that solar juice thats been squeezed out of the earth.

[BOAT]

I like your electric ideas - I wish there was a way to get enough solar on our boats to go more all electric.

As solar panel technology advances, perhaps someone will come up with solar sails, right?

My boat is solar. Years ago the sunlight caused plants to grow and then they compressed over time into a black slippery substance left underground and was pumped up to serve the needs of humanity. My boat now runs on that solar juice thats been squeezed out of the earth.

Actually, your partially right - sailboats are completely solar powered. It's the thermal activity of the sun that creates the winds that power our sailboats. A lot of the sailboats here where I live have propeller thingy's on the aft that make electricity from the wind. I guess they like them cuz they work at night too. I'm not really sure how much electric you can get from those propeller thingy's - enough to boil water?

I would like to know.

Anyways, back to the galley stuff.
My plan is to have a spray head connected to an electric pump instead of using the pump up zodi shower under pressure. I'm still keeping the zodi hot water tank in the galley for hot showers but I am putting a quik connector so I can suck out the water from the tank with an electric pump for use at the sink. SO I need a place to put the electric battery for the pump that is accessible so that it can be easily removed and charged or swapped out.

So the galley came with this thingy in it - not sure what you call these:



So I cut a hole in it to accommodate a square battery:



And put a stop in the face of the galley to hold the battery in place:



So when it's all done it looks like this:

[OverEasy]

Hi BOAT, PitchPolePhobie & Stickinthemud57!

Repurposed old compressed heavy solar mixed with some new light solar byproducts on a warm sunny day…. Sounds perfect to me!

Figured if on could take the features of an M and an X then mixed them together we’d find ourselves a balanced boat

Like the adaptation of the “nookie” thingy to easily hold the battery thingy!

From what I’ve heard around the marinas the propellery things do occasionally generate electrical power. Not particularly much but enough to pay for the space and occasional hassles they generate. Most newer boat are going the solar cell route as the prices have come down and the durability has gone up.

Guess one could lash several flex solar panels at the corners to make a square stepped sort of sail… but it might be hard to always tack to sunward unless one double sided this solar sail thingy. Might be kind of hard to flake when you want to reef or drop the main ….

HF makes a 100watt solar panel kit.
Been thinking about an aft enclosure for Over Easy. Looks like 1, is not 2, of these kits would fit on top. 100 to 200 watts of solar power over 5 to 8 hours, even at 50% of capacity, would do a fairly good job of taking up the brunt of a couple cups of coffee, several eggs and a low watt crockpot or Rice cooker dinner… if motor cruising the engine generated power could top things off enroute.

Saw some pictures of a new sailboat where just about every flat surface was covered in “walkable” solar panels…. … just the panels would be more $ than my Mac26X with the new engine!

Best Regards to All
Over Easy

[BOAT]

“nookie” thingy

Okay, well at least now I know what it's called. Thanks.

[BOAT]

We found after years of sailing out at sea we our salty hands needed a rinse several times a day. The pump faucet was hard to manage in swells heeled to one side trying to pump the faucet and rinse hands so we found ourselves using the sprayer because it was pressurized and we only needed one hand to rinse. I decided to add an electric pump that need not be wired into the boats batteries to save on electricity and to keep the sliding galley free to slide. To do this I added rechargeable batteries to the galley. The stock pump can not accommodate a pressure pump so I added a separate fixture on top for the electric pump supplied water. I hope this all makes sense to you guys - we found the little sprayer to be really handy when out at sea and also for doing dishes.


Okay, I got the new galley pump installed. It's inside that plastic tub back there in the dark part of the galley under the sink drain:



So, from the pic above you can see that I still have the square tanks under the sink that connect to the stock factory provided pump faucet so you can still use the pumper if you want to. But, if you use the new sprayer faucet installed next to the pump the electric pump feeds that spray head so no pumping needed. The spray pump draws water from the big stainless round tank that can still be pressurized for hot water showers anywhere on the boat.



So, like I posted above - I modified the "nookie" thingy so that a rechargeable battery fits in there and the battery has a switch and a charge gauges (green lights) and the battery pack will provide three full hours of continuous pumping power so that's many weeks of normal use - I have several packs and can change them out as needed - they just plug right in:





When your on board you just turn on the battery and leave it on because the pump has it's own pressure switch so the pump only activates when you open the water sprayer valve like this:





So, this is what the galley looks like with the new spray head that is on an electric pump:

[Jimmyt]

Very nice!

[OverEasy]

Our latest Christmas galley gadget for Over Easy!



It’s in keeping with our all electric no interior flame cooking galley design. Isn’t it the “cutest” thing!

At 450 Watts and a diminutive less than 6”x 8”x 4” envelope it tucks away into a small space. Great for making micro omelette bites, quiche, scrambled, or individual toast sized versions of the same!

We will be exploring the capabilities in the regular kitchen as we plan and prep for our 2023 journeys to come.

Today’s experiment are mushroom cheese Denver omelette bites! They came out great . Three large eggs , one large mushroom , chopped onion and Mexican cheddar cheese make four “bites”! Nice


My Admiral is having fun

Best Regards
Over Easy

[rsvpasap]

The Omnia stovetop oven is probably the best gadget that I've found for cooking on a small boat that does not have an electric or propane oven. https://www.google.com/search?q=Omnia+stovetop+oven

I have the traditional size pan and the new larger size pan and use them on either the Wallas diesel stove which has a ceramic top (winter) or a portable propane stove (summer). I've made all sorts of things, Ratatouille, blueberry coffee cake, all sorts of stews, roasted chicken and fish. I've been very happy with it and if it falls overboard, I'll buy another.

[OverEasy]

Hi Rsvpasap!

You’re making us hungry!!!
Ratatouille for dinner and Bluberry cake for desert!!!
Does the Michelin Guide award stars for boat cooking?

We also like your Wallas Diesel Stove!!!
Prior to deciding on our “no-flame/ all electric approach” We were seriously considering going to the Wallas Stove given the low flammability of diesel and that they are divert vented externally with an outside air source. They not only cook good they are designed to provide cabin heat as well! Nicely designed product!

Best Regards
Over Easy