> I often cook "bone in turkey breast" in a large crock pot. It takes > several hours but makes a moist, flavorable bird. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> snip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<, If you are on the hook you may not have enough power to run the crock pot for several hours.
REPLY Actually you probably do. Because I design power systems based on inverters I did an energy load calculation for various cooking methods. Stove versus other choices such as counter top cookers, crock pots and micro waves. To power an electric stove requires a 4- 7kw generator. To cook the same meal with alternatives takes much less energy. A 100 watt crock pot running for 4 hours uses 0.4 kilowatt hour. A George Foreman grille ( the 600 watt model) takes 9 minutes from stone cold to steak on the plate ready to eat. Add one minute if you start with a frozen steak. So 600 watts for ten minutes is o.1 kilowatt hour of energy. Compare that to an electric oven drawing 3000 watts for 15 minutes to preheat the oven and then cook the same steak. To put this into a context most boaters are more familiar with. A 100 watt cooker uses 10 amps (approx) from the 12V battery. So four hours of 100 wat crock pot use equals 10 X 4 = 40 amp hours of energy. One Group 31 battery can deliver a max of 100 amp hours. So the 40 A-H is about 50% depletion. Considering that most liveaboards have battery banks of at least 600 amp hours this amount of enrgy is not impossible to deliver. Obviously a propane stove doesn't use the same electrical energy but these small counter top cooking appliances are optimized to place the heat into the food in the least possible time and thus saves energy. The counter top appliances are designed to deliver just the right amount of heat directly wher it is needed the most for cooking. No energy is wasted heating up heavy pans or pots. no heat is bypassing the pot and just heating up the galley. Arild _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
