Overcoming RV Cooking Challenges: Tips and Solutions

Overcoming RV Cooking Challenges: Tips and Solutions

Let’s be real, cooking in an RV isn’t always easy. In this episode of TravelEssary, we’re sharing the honest ups and downs of figuring out meals in a tiny space with limited appliances, barely-there counter space, and a curious toddler running around.

We’ll chat about the gadgets that have made a big difference for us (like our air fryer and rice cooker), why we love cooking outside on the Blackstone, and how we’ve learned to make the most of the space we’ve got. We’re also talking storage tips, safety strategies, and how we’re constantly learning from other RVers online.

Whether you’re new to RV life or just looking for some fresh ideas, we hope this episode feels like a conversation with friends who get it. Grab your coffee and come hang out with us. We’re glad you’re here!

Transcript

  We are the Essary family and we're exploring America one destination at a time. On this episode of TravelEssary, we are going to talk about the challenges of cooking in an rv. Let's chat.

Welcome and thank you for joining us on this episode as we talk about the challenges. As we talk about the trials, as we talk about overcoming, you know, I don't appreciate your sarcasm and conquering cooking in the rv. It really is challenging. It is challenging to a degree. If you're okay with like cooking on whatever, then this isn't gonna be that big of a deal.

But if you're one of those people that like the traditional stoves and, uh, ovens, ovens and you know, just having your, your. So your niceness, I guess, or I'm not sure of what the other word is, of, you know, just having all the, the extra stuff that you could possibly want that you can store inside of a house mm-hmm.

That you really can't store in an rv. Well, there's just multiple challenges of cooking in an rv. You don't get your residential oven and stove. I mean, every now and then there are people out there that have it, but it's really rare. It's not common for sure. And you don't have space for all of your. Like your small appliances and things like that, you have to pick and choose which ones you wanna bring.

And then on top of that, you don't have counter space either, right? That you need for cooking. There's so many different challenges that I'm having to learn how to overcome and work around and adapt to. And like even tonight, it took me way longer than it normally would have to cook dinner because I was having to cook everything one thing at a time.

And it's just, yeah. It doable, but it is very challenging and I think for us it's even a bit more challenging than most people. It is because we have a little one that is around, and so of course his hands are grabbing everything. Mm-hmm. He doesn't quite understand what those things do. So for safety reasons, we've cut out some things that could definitely make this a whole lot easier.

It doesn't eliminate the challenge, but it does make it. Easier. Yeah. So we actually have our propane turned completely off. We don't use it in the RV at all right now. Um, because when we're hooked up to electric, everything we have can be ran off of electric. And so, um, the only thing we would use it for is cooking.

But I swear whoever made this RV made it for munchkins, like, and the oven is so low. I wouldn't say munchkins, but yes, typical RV stoves are lower, significantly lower than your typical residential stove. Yeah, it's really low, like it barely even comes to like my hip bone. It's so low and that's like the top of it, which is perfect grabbing level for Jasper.

Yes, his little hands can easily. Get up that high. Yeah, he can turn the knobs on. He can easily reach his hand, you know, as far as the back burner if he wanted to. And we are just not comfortable with having the propane turned on with him being in this stage of exploring and grabby and touchy and, you know, all it would take is one second of us.

Not looking or not watching or turning our backs and him turning that knob on and you know, an accident could happen and we don't wanna have to face that. So for now, our situation is even a bit more challenging than most and probably will not be quite as challenging in the future once he's older and is able to understand.

No, we don't touch this. Um, but that still could be a couple of years before he fully understands, Hey, this is hot. Don't touch this. That could, this could kill us all. And we definitely don't want that to happen. But it's just one of the many challenges. Whenever you look at RVs just in general, ours is a little bit more extreme because we don't use the typical stove and in, uh.

I would probably say 98%. I really haven't found one that really does, but 98%, you're gonna use a stove that's hooked up to propane. Mm-hmm. You're not gonna get one that is hooked up to electricity because you're limited on the amount of amperage that you can use. And I don't think they even make electric stoves for RVs.

I, I don't. And that's because of the amperage part that comes in because a residential. A stove pulls so much amperage. Yeah. That it's usually set on its own breaker and so you wouldn't be able to fit one inside of an rv, especially if it's like ours that has two or three acs and you're running them all at the, the same time.

Mm-hmm. 50 amps is not enough. It would blow multiple circuits, not just inside your RV but across the park. So does a dryer not pull that much? So a dryer. They've, they've gotten better on dryers, but the heating element inside of a dryer doesn't pull that much as a stove does because the stove is continuous and it always has to heat itself back up.

Oh, got you. Um, and there's some other stuff like microwaves and things of that nature as well. Mm-hmm. That. They've gotten so much better with the whole efficiency part. They haven't gotten to it yet. Yeah, dude, our microwave in here is bigger than the one we had in our house. Absolutely. And it's amazing.

And they, they always put it above the stove . Yeah. Um, and so, I mean, we're talking about kitchens. We're gonna be specifically talking about ours, but we're also talking about kitchens that are in the smaller, uh, bumper pools. Mm-hmm.

Like my parents have. Or even the, um, the motor homes like my, my granddad has of just the different layouts and the different kitchens and every single one of 'em is gonna have pretty much the same obstacles in it. Yeah. Even if you do have, and you do use your stove and your oven and your rv, it's still a challenge because we know it's like, what A third the size of a residential oven, you're not fit in a Turkey in that thing.

Uh, most of them you can't. There are a few that have there. There's those rare few that we've seen. Rare few, and you're gonna be. Giving up so much extra stuff, right. Those are usually the ones that you find in where they have a single bedroom with no lofts, no anything because they're made for, you know, a couple or a single that goes out.

So you're take, it's taking up so much space, you're not having room for those extra bedrooms and those extra beds and stuff. Not really for families, right. You're definitely gonna give up space that's gonna be more of your weekend camper type stuff where they're gonna load everything up and then they're gonna go out.

For those that live in their RVs, it's very rare for them to, unless, like you said, they are a single couple older, um, or they don't have kids anymore, or it's just a single person for them to have the accessibility to. A, a full stove, full oven. Yeah. They have the space for a huge one, but for everyone else, um, it's a challenge.

You are not gonna fit a pizza in there unless it's one of those teeny tiny personal pizzas. I was say, you get one, those personal ones. And from our experience with past RVs, when we do put things in the oven, it takes twice as long to cook in a small RV oven than it ever did in our residential. And . So you're using that propane and it is just taking so long, and then when you're in the summertime, it is heating up your tiny little trailer. So let's break those down just a little bit more For our listeners. Whenever she says propane, you are limited on the amount of propane that you have.

So it's not like a residential. Gas where it's almost unlimited. It's what you can carry. It's only what you can carry. Most of the time, it's a five pound, um, propane tank. Mm-hmm. You might get away with two fives or if you're really lucky, late, like we are, we have two fifteens, but even two fifteens, they don't last that long.

No, not for oven, whatever. You're gonna a full, full blast and that's the only thing that you're using. You're having to fill those up. At at least once every other week. Mm-hmm. If not more. And especially if you're trying to run your heater and you're also trying to cook at the same time you are burning through the gas, figuratively and literally.

And, it's one of those headaches that if you can get away from not using it like we have so far. Mm-hmm. Then we're good with that. Yeah. You know, that's one of the things I'm so thankful about these newer RVs is. You have the option of running things on electricity now, whereas our bumper pool that we had, we didn't have that option.

No. Everything was ran off of propane, the refrigerator, the hot water heater, everything was ran off of propane. Now we could switch it to, and most of them you can switch back and forth between propane and electric as far as the refrigerator goes, and just the whole headache part of it, of trying to switch it back forth and they've gotten so much better.

And in your smaller RVs, especially if you have a smaller stove and it's, I mean, it's gonna be propane only, but you're only gonna have like one small tank. Mm-hmm. And it's not gonna last you that long. Right. Now if you're only cooking like once a day Right. And it's like a real quick heat up thing. Yeah.

Then it's not that big of a deal. But whenever you're actually talking about, and it's something we'll get into later, but like boiling water. Or cooking a full Turkey. Yes. Or waiting 20, 30 minutes for a pizza to get done that, that eats out the propane in a heartbeat. Right? There are so many people that I have, you know, read their posts and stuff across Facebook and Instagram and YouTube, and they have said that they have taken out their oven completely because it was.

A useless piece of furniture, a useless appliance inside of their rv, and they took it out and used that space. Some put in icemaker, some put in dishwashers. Some used it for storage for their bigger appliances. You can even convert them even into, uh, the smaller deep freezes. Yeah. They still work with the amperage that's going on, especially with a lot of your RV parks that are going to 50 amp instead of 30 amp.

It just allows you to do so much more. Mm-hmm. And it doesn't matter what level or how big your RV is. A 50 amp just gonna give you more power and it doesn't put a strain on all of your appliances, especially if you have them running it all the time. Another thing that you mentioned is how fast a stove in an RV heats up the entire rv.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The stove, especially when you use the oven, it gets so hot within minutes. Like even when I use my electric burner. It will heat it up two or three degrees in here when I'm cooking within 10 or 15 minutes. So whenever we were in the bumper pool and we were using the oven on the rare times that we used it, because we realized very quickly that it pretty much sucks up all the propane that it would get.

So unbearably hot, the air conditioners could not keep up in the summertime, and then it always takes time for it to cool off. Now usually if you're inside, especially any kind of residential place. Your oven is going to heat up, but it's only gonna heat up a small portion of it. Now, if you're in the wintertime and you're trying to heat up the entire RV by running your stove, you will have no issues.

It will heat up your entire rv. Yeah. But then you're gonna have to have a giant dehumidifier to get rid of all that moisture and Yeah. Yeah. There's some other stuff. That's another issue. We'll talk about another day. , Like I said, if you're doing something small, five minutes, it's not that big of a deal.

But if you're doing a full blown meal and it takes you 20, 30 minutes, you're, you're gonna have to take a small break after you cook just to cool down so you can eat. Mm-hmm. And Misty's done that several times. Yeah. Even with all the other stuff. And another thing that you mentioned is the space, right?

Especially the stove, the stove top itself mm-hmm. They either come in three or four burners, but even with the residential pots and pans that you use, you can't even use all the burners at the same time. No. No. Which would be really great if you were doing a 20, 30 minute meal and you could get it done in like five.

Yeah. Or 10. 'cause that way it doesn't heat up and it doesn't eat through your propane, but you can't even use 'em all. Yeah. I've never understood, and I really would like to talk to somebody who like develops these, but I have never understood why there are three burners so cramped, packed next to each other.

The only way you could ever use three burners at the same time is if you are using like the smallest, tiny. Teeny tiny little pot possible. Yeah. On all three burners. Yeah. If you were using like the individual sized pots where you're doing something like a one serving, yeah, maybe two serving. Yeah. For like a couple.

Or just yourself heating up a tiny can of beans or something. Yeah. Then you could get away with it. But if you're doing, you know, a family of three, four, or five, there's no way you can use them all. No. 'cause the portions are gonna be a little bit bigger, so therefore you're gonna have more space of course on the stove.

Mm-hmm. And you just don't have the space. And that's why a lot of people take them out. Yeah. And it's not just the stove where you have space problems. I love the RV we have now. Oh, absolutely. 'cause we have an island in our fifth wheel and our last two that we had, we had the. Um, travel trailer, the bumper pole, which had the tiniest bit of counter space.

It had like this little L-shaped thing on the end that you might could fit like a sheet pan on. And then we had our Class C, which had zero counter space. You had to use the table to do anything. And so I am loving that most of the fifth wheels nowadays, they have big O Islands in the middle and it gives you so much space and the larger RVs, even , the bumper pools, um. Motor homes, most of them will have an island. Mm-hmm. And it does make it so much better. 'cause not only do you have countertop, but now you have more extra storage. Right. That you can put things.

And we're, we'll get into the storage part in here in a second, but it also allows you to have other counter space. Like we have, um, what, what would you call this? Like a breakfast bar? Yeah. . It's like a little coffee bar. Yeah, coffee bar. That's what I was thinking of.

And it, it allows you to, to put some other stuff out there as well. , But in your smaller RVs, you're gonna have your kitchen and it's all gonna be on one wall. Mm-hmm. Everything. The stove, icebox, pantry, if you have counter space, yeah. You're lucky if you get like six inches of counter space. Yeah.

The, the sink, all that kind of stuff is just all along one wall and it makes it extremely hard. And even if you have the L shape where usually they put the sink kind of in a, in the corner. You still don't have anything to do, like a large cutting board to really cut anything up. Mm-hmm. Or even put pans off to the side so you can cook something else.

It it, it's really not even space for that. Yeah. So space is definitely one of those trials that no matter what RV you have it, it's gonna be an issue unless you do some really hard thinking, which I think we've done a really good job as far as that goes because of the different appliances that we have.

Mm-hmm. That hopefully whenever we travel. Or whenever we start moving this thing, they all survive. We'll, we'll figure it out. Yeah. So we talked about why it's such a challenge of cooking in an rv. So now let's talk about the solutions that we have found. And one of the solutions is not to cook in the rv, which is a great thing if you have the shade for it.

Yeah. Yesterday, like if you're not in the Texas heat. Yeah. Whenever I cook outside. In the sign in? Yeah. In the Texas heat it, it can, it can be unbearable. 'cause I'm dealing with the Texas heat and the barbecue heat all at the same time. Yeah. And so, so yeah. One of the things that we do twice a week is Jeremy gets out his Blackstone, it fits perfectly underneath one of our undercarriage compartments and the legs fold up and, um.

He cooks pretty much the whole mill out there on the Blackstone. And that's great. Like you said, if you have shade, if you're not wanting to heat up the RV that day, um, it is something that gives you more options. And it's the largest space we have to cook on. Yes. It has the largest surface that we can cook on.

Mm-hmm. So multiple things, you know? Yeah. Like yesterday you had. Steaks, hamburgers and corn on the cob, all on the Blackstone. Yeah. There's been many times you've been able to cook multiple things at the same time on the Blackstone, which is really nice because when we're cooking in the rv, a lot of times it's one thing at a time because you don't have the space or you're flipping breakers.

So, which we've done here recently. Yeah. But even cooking outside is one of those nice things. Now I have a propane tank that is portable, so that's the one that I use. I do have the option, and most RVs now have the option of a quick connect mm-hmm. To the big tanks that we have on the RV itself. Right.

That you can use as well. And so there's, you don't even have to worry about trying to haul 'em in and out or trying to storm or pull 'em or somewhere they're, they're already built in mm-hmm. That you can use. And so that is definitely one of the. The great things about an RV now, but your small one that you use last a long time.

Last a long time. Because I'm not trying to heat up a massive surface or Right. I'm not having to cook for an extended period of time. It will last us months. Yeah. It's super small. It's super quick, super easy, very efficient. Mm-hmm. Um, and that's definitely one thing that I like about those flat top barbecue pits.

Mm-hmm. Um, ours is a Blackstone, they don't have to be a Blackstone, but there's some other ones that are out there. , Even like a regular grilled barbecue pit mm-hmm. By putting pans or something on there, I can cook and heat up faster than you can here inside. Right. Whether you as an electric or whether you're on the stove.

Mm-hmm. Because that's what it's made for. Um, if you were to do charcoal, and this is just my experience from it, I'm not a charcoal person. Because it takes so long to actually get up to the temperature you need and, and I hate the taste of it. And you have to cool it down and then you have to haul around that black stuff and it gets everywhere.

Mm-hmm. So that's, it is an option. And I know a lot of people that do it. One of my best friends, that's all that he uses, he will not use gas whatsoever. Oh. I hate charcoal. And so it is an option, but you're gonna have to carry a little bit more extra stuff with you if you do charcoal. Mm-hmm. Um, some of the other things that we have come up with and.

Misty has done her research and figure some stuff out, and we've blown breakers and we've trialed with an error and we've made things happen is we have a electric two burner. What is what? Mini stove? Yeah. It's just an electric burner.

It's a two burner. Two burner. Electric burner. It's a little redundant. It's what it is. That Misty uses for a vast majority of our mills. Mm-hmm. But, um, I, if I could go back now and eventually I will, when I replace this with another one, I will get a single burner. Yeah, because, or maybe even two single burners, because we have a family of five.

I can't cook things in small pots or skillets. I need, you know, medium to big size pots and skillets, and whenever I put a big one on there, you can't. It takes over the big one and half of the small one. So I can't cook two things at a time anyway. It's basically the exact same problem as with the RV stove top.

That's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah. This is the exact same situation we ran into with the stove. Yeah. So we underestimate how large our pots and pans are for a large family of five. And that is one thing that if you are going from a house into a RV that I, I know it would be really weird, but. Take some measurements.

At least you don't have to take the pots with you, although that would be hilarious. Just when you're searching for your rv, just take your pots with you and see if they fit on your stove. Yeah, send us some pictures of y'all doing that. That would be great. But you can. You know, measure, okay, hey, this pan's gonna go here.

Well, I don't have enough room for X, Y, and Z. Mm-hmm. So that's definitely one thing that I would suggest is just be prepared. Especially if, if you have larger families, your larger pans will not fit multiple. Yeah. So, so even with the electric burner, yeah. We still have the same issue and we're doing it one at a time.

But I do love the electric burner. It, like Jeremy said, it is where like 50% of our meals are cooked. It's how to cook. I use it almost every day, but. The one thing I do not like about it is it does not get hot enough to boil water. We were talking about this the other day. I have no way. To boil water in this rv.

And for a lot of the things that I do like pasta, that's a problem. That's a big problem. Or making my tea is a big problem. I've figured out the tea problem. I've got the tea. Fixed tea is more about steeping. I've got that one. I've got the tea fixed. But, uh, you need a rolling boil for pasta. And I need, I, I figured out the tea.

I put it in a smaller pot. And it, and it will boil, and I just, I have to. Let it steep longer so it's strong. Right. So you'd have to do the same thing with like if you were boiling eggs for tuna fish or something like that. Right. I could do that in a small pot. In a smaller pot. But for pasta, with a pasta where it's a family of five, I need a large pot, or I have to cook like four pots.

S multiple. Yeah, multiple servings of pasta. It would take me two hours, which is not fun for anyone pasta to ever do. And I'm not doing that, so, so pasta will be like when we eat out or you know, unfortunately, which. It's not always the best, but it is an option. And we have to get the frozen pasta that you pop in the skillet.

Pop it. Yep. That, that's another option. Um, other than that, I can't, I can't boil water. So, yeah. I mean, the only other way that she would inside is if we actually turn the propane on so she could actually Right. Use the gas and, and heat up everything. But for now, that's not an option. Another thing that I did is I went and bought, um, an air fryer.

We had an air fryer in our residential house. It broke. We didn't bring it with us 'cause it was broken and we tried to get by without it, but I couldn't do it. There's too many things that we need the air fryer for. It's just so much easier with an air fryer, especially the way that the they, they cook and the, the.

They just taste better Yeah. In air fryer than if you were to use a microwave or something. Well, yeah. And if we want french fries or onion rings or tater tots, you know, we we're not using the oven. We don't have propane turned on. There's, you can't cook those things in a microwave. Right. If you have, you have to have an air fryer or you don't have them at all.

Yeah. So we've kind of circumvented the, the whole stove thing or the whole oven thing. Mm-hmm. With the air fryer. Mm-hmm. And it really works 'cause it's electric. We have no issues, but we have learned that we cannot run the burner, the electric burner, and the air fryer at the same time on certain plugs.

So here's the situation with most RVs,

they're usually all on the same breaker because no one wants to run that many. Breakers. Mm-hmm. To those, and you, they just because of space, you, they're almost all on the same one. Well, in our kitchen and in most kitchens, you're gonna have those. Mm-hmm. And so you can't run too high amperage off of a 20 amp or a 15 amp breaker.

Yeah. And that's what we did. And we tripped it a couple times until we actually found out that, hey, they're all wired together. So we used our breakfast, what is that thing called? Breakfast counter coffee. It's a coffee bar.

So we found out that our

gFCI plugs are all on the same breaker and we couldn't run them both at the same time, but our breakfast bar. Is not GFCI and it allows us to run whatever we want because it's on a separate breaker. Yeah. But then when I have to do that, I have to rearrange appliances and so yeah. I'm only gonna do that if I absolutely just need to cook two things at the same time.

Today I used the air fryer and the burner, and I just did one at a time, and it did take me 45 minutes to make breakfast. I made breakfast for dinner. It took 45 minutes because I did the air fryer, and then I did three things on the. Electric burner and I had to do them one thing at a time because I only fit one thing at a time on there.

So yeah, normally that would be like a 20 minute dinner tops and I mean tops, but it was 45 minutes. But you know what? It worked out. We got it. It's just I have to learn that it's gonna take me a bit longer to cook. Um, it might be a little bit more inconvenient. I might have to move things around. Yeah. We gotta be a little bit more strategic on how or what order we cook things in.

Because you know, we don't want things getting cool on us that really need to be at least warm. Right? Right. It's like science now. It's like science all over again. And then of course I got a rice cooker because I can't boil water, which is probably one of the greatest things this she ever did, which we have never had a rice cooker, never had a rice cooker because I've always just cooked rice the old fashioned way.

Just put it in a. You know, pot of boiling water and you put your lid on, you leave it alone until it's done. That's, but I can't boil water and we eat a lot of rice. And so I was like, I'm gonna go buy a rice cooker. And I wish I would've done it 20 years ago. 'cause I love the rice cook cooker. For real. I love the rice cooker.

Every single time that she makes it now it's like. I'm like looking forward to the rice. 'cause I mean, almost all of it's perfectly cooked. Mm-hmm. One way or another. And then there's different seasonings anyways, there's a whole bunch of stuff you can do with a rice cooker. If you don't have one, I suggest that you grab one.

And so with all these appliances, and of course we have our toaster. Well, right, right. And then I have a crockpot. No crockpot. And then one thing that I knew because we weren't going to use the propane that I decided to keep, um, also I knew that most RV ovens are not very large, is I kept my countertop oven.

So I have a countertop oven. That you can, I think they're called roaster ovens. Yes, roaster ovens. I think they're called roaster ovens. I just call it my countertop oven. Anything I can do in a regular oven except for pizza I can do in my roaster oven. I've made biscuits in it, I've made cinnamon rolls in it.

I've cooked an entire Thanksgiving Turkey in it many times. Um, because, you know, we needed our oven. For all of the casserole and other things for thanksgiving. And pies. And pies. Gotta have pies. I gotta have our pies, right? And so I use my, and the Turkey takes up the whole oven, so I use my countertop oven for that.

So I know that I can cook pretty much anything inside of that. So we have. Fixed most of the issues. I guess. I still can't boil water really, and I can't cook pizza. But other than that, with all of the appliances and the changes we have made, we can cook pretty much anything else. It just takes some time.

It takes a little bit extra time and. You can go to any store, you can go to Target, Walmart, it doesn't matter. And there's gonna be a lot of appliances all over the places that are gonna help you. If you run into a situation like us where, hey, we don't want to use the stove, we want to conserve our propane.

It's already set up for electric anyways. We're just gonna use all electric appliances. Mm-hmm. So there's plenty of tools out there that no matter what you want, I mean, we could put a coffee maker, we could get a blender. We don't drink coffee. I mean, we could do, we could get a kergan, we can do all this other kind of stuff that that's just not us.

We don't use them. Those things enough. Right. But it also is one of those things that as far as kitchen appliances go, you could definitely. Get if you wanted to and run it on most RVs. Mm-hmm. The next thing that we're gonna talk about, because we just talked about all the appliances that now we have.

Mm-hmm. Instead of using the stove is, of course in every rv, it doesn't matter what it is, is storage. Right. Storage is always an issue. So, um, one of the, one of the things that we have done, because. Honestly, I don't even have room for like large pots and pans and skillets in here. Like they don't even fit in the cabinets.

I had to downsize to our medium sized ones. I couldn't bring any of the larger frying pans. They don't, they don't fit in any of the cabinets, but as far as like crock pots and my roaster oven, things like that, we put them under the bed until we need them because they're not gonna fit anywhere else.

Under the bed is always a great strategy. There's usually a lot of storage underneath there. Mm-hmm. It's usually deep enough, right? Because that's what you're looking for is Yeah. Although there's storage all over the place, there's nothing deep enough and wide enough to fit those larger items in. So look, in the rv, there's a space for it, I promise.

Mm-hmm. You can, you can make it work. Is it inconvenient? Yes. Yeah. But does it work? Absolutely. And then the other, the other ones. Because we don't use our stove. Mm-hmm. We use the top of our stove as counter space. Yeah. So like the air fryer and the other smaller appliances, when they're not being used, they get stored on top of the stove.

And so I use inside the stove for storage too. Because I don't use it. You don't use it. So pots and pans can go underneath there. Mm-hmm. I mean there, there's creative ways of fixing the storage issue. If you're smart about it right now, if you want everything convenient and , everything kind of out in the open or somewhere quick that you can just grab it out of the, you know, the pantry or something like that, that's great, but you're losing that storage for your everyday needs, right?

And you're having just for convenience. So we suggest that you, you store them in a practical place. But it's always about space. You're looking for the width, you're looking for the height. Because some of these things are gonna be, especially blenders and you know, things of that nature. They're gonna be a little bit taller.

And most RVs do not have tall cabinets. No. Now in residential places, the countertop, and then you have all those cabinets underneath, which are always gonna be tall for whatever you want to put in there. In a rv, everything is shrunken.

Yeah. And so you're not gonna have a whole lot of spaces, but, but the, but like you said, there's always other options. Always. Like I didn't keep our big old huge blender, but I kept the one for the baby, like the little baby bullet one that we used and. Um, it has larger attachments that you, you can do smaller ones or larger attachments to it.

And if I need to blend something, I just put it in this baby blender. Yeah. Which comes apart in pieces and, and breaks down into a li little tiny space. So still, still can work just differently

if you're having trouble and you're just, you don't know what to do. When it comes to the challenges you are facing in your RV kitchen, you don't know how to cook, you dunno what appliances you're using, your whatever your situation is, I highly recommend that you get on Facebook. There are a couple of groups that I have joined, like the full-time RV families, um, with kids, and then there's one that's like RV hacks and.

Tips and things like that. They have helped me so much. Like that's where I've learned about many of my tips and tricks is I've seen other full-time families and the solutions that they have done. And then there's a few that I just kind of figured out on my own. I haven't seen anybody else. Um, say that they use a roaster oven, but I love my roaster oven and I could not go without it, especially around Thanksgiving time when we want that Turkey.

But if you are having those kind of challenges, one, either reach out to me. And ask some questions, and I would be happy to help if I could or to research what other people who are doing this, what their solutions are. And I bet you get more than one answer because people have learned to get really, really creative.

Join us next week. We are going to be talking about balancing. Structure and spontaneity when you're on a vacation.