Friday, March 24, 2006
Kitchen Equipment & The RV Renter #4
There will be a number of you who are on a fly/drive RV rental vacation. Most of you will find your easiest option is to go with one of your dealer’s equipment package as we mentioned in installment #2 of this little series. The quality of these packages is an open ended question - at least until it is too late to do anything about it (though assuming low quality probably is a safe guess). Is there another option? Here is what we recommend:
One more point to be covered before leaving this kitchen equipment topic: "What do we do about coffee?" We have a specific equipment recommendation which we'll cover in an entry on Monday!
- Bring small utensils from home – a couple of good knives, some things to stir and serve with, a spatula. Perhaps a vegetable peeler, a whisk and a zester. In other words, bring those things which are small, easy to put in checked luggage and which won’t have a significant impact on your airline's weight restrictions.
- Then plan to make a stop at Wally World – or someplace similar – to pick up one sauce pan and one skillet. Become a bit of a two pan gourmet. You won’t need a lot of stuff. Get one fairly large, nonstick covered skillet (something around 12 inches would be perfect) and a moderate size sauce pan with lid (3 quarts will work for most traveling groups). At the time of this writing the pans recommended here can be purchased at Wal-Mart for $18.94 and $17.83 respectively.
One more point to be covered before leaving this kitchen equipment topic: "What do we do about coffee?" We have a specific equipment recommendation which we'll cover in an entry on Monday!
# posted by Dave Corby @ 9:51 AM 
