To Dave Cooper, Philip Eslinger, John Marshall, David Ellis, Ken Williams and others, what is you energy source for heating and cooking your food? Anyone using induction stovetop? Convection oven? Microwave? Propane or diesel ranges? Or just conventional heating elements in electric ranges? With the abundance of DC and AC power aboard a modern cruising boat, my question is are your cooking and hotel energy needs all derived from your diesel supply via conversion to electricity or are there arguments for carrying, say, propane additionally? Also I'm interested in the energy eficient methods of meeting these needs and the appliances y'all have found most useful. Induction stovetop for example. Maybe there's just so much generation of electrical power that efficiency is not an issue? If there is such a surplus, could it be directed toward powering the dink? Is gasoline a second or third fuel type carried? All the best, Bill

Our Nordhavn 55 uses propane for the cooktop burners, 240vac for a large convection oven (requires genset or shore power), and 120vac for a microwave/convection oven combo unit (which runs great off a rather large 4KW inverter). It's a real mixed bag, but this is Nordhavn's default setup for our size of boat. My wife simply prefers to cook on gas as opposed to electric, the same as we do at home, so we never considered going all electric. The propane is an ABYC-compliant installation that is also plumbed to the BBQ grill, which gets a lot of use on our boat, especially if we're catching fish. One 20lb cylinder feeds the stove top, and one 20lb cylinder feeds the BBQ (but is also switchable to stove top) and the third 20lb tank is held in reserve. We were out four four months this summer, using the cooktop at least once a day (usually to cook breakfast) and BBQ most days (fish for dinner) and we didn't empty the first two tanks. So with three tanks, I'd say we have at least a six month cruising supply, at least based on the way we use propane. We ate about 95% of our meals on the boat given we were usually at anchor. To your other question, I guess you'd say the microwave/convection oven and the big convection oven both "burn diesel", but only indirectly via the genset. John Marshall N55-20 Serendipity Sequim Bay, WA On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:15 PM, bill wrote: > To Dave Cooper, Philip Eslinger, John Marshall, David Ellis, Ken > Williams and > others, what is you energy source for heating and cooking your > food? Anyone > using induction stovetop? Convection oven? Microwave? Propane > or diesel > ranges? Or just conventional heating elements in electric ranges? > > With the abundance of DC and AC power aboard a modern cruising boat, > my > question is are your cooking and hotel energy needs all derived from > your > diesel supply via conversion to electricity or are there arguments for > carrying, say, propane additionally? > > Also I'm interested in the energy eficient methods of meeting these > needs and > the appliances y'all have found most useful. Induction stovetop for > example. > > Maybe there's just so much generation of electrical power that > efficiency is > not an issue? > > If there is such a surplus, could it be directed toward powering the > dink? Is > gasoline a second or third fuel type carried? > > All the best, > Bill > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.