I store it in the dishpan, to protect other items from the sharp corners and
keep the stove from getting scratched up.  I remove it for cooking.  But you
probably could cook with it in the dishpan.  The lower part doesn't get hot;
only the grate and top.  It cools enough to be put away in about 5 minutes.

Bill Riker
M-15 #184
Storm Petrel

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And the Origo never heats up enough to melt the plastic dishpan?

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From: "Bill Riker" <wriker@mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: stoves and the big bang


stoves and the big bang  Gary,

Actually, I usually cook in the cabin, especially in the morning when it's
cool.  It seems more convenient to me, since I can reach everything I need,
except the fridge (the cooler lives at the stern end of the cockpit, under
the tiller), while sitting over the potti.   And I can put things away as
I'm finished with them.   In hot weather, of course, it's preferable to use
the cockpit.

It's more likely that I will need to heat water for coffee than make dinner.

The fumes are minimal, and flames aren't a problem.  The stove sits over one
of the bunk lockers, after stowing the cushion in the forepeak, and my
kitchen box over the other locker.  A couple of plastic boxes of food and
equipment live under the cockpit, reachable only from the cabin, since both
cockpit lockers on my boat are the shallow, sealed variety.  It works for
me.

I've never tried cooking in any kind of rough conditions.  A stray powerboat
wake occasionally, but nothing more.

Since I sail alone, I've thought about permanently removing one cabin
cushion and building a "galley" in it's place.  Maybe if I had more time to
spend on the water . . .

Bill Riker
M-15 #184
Storm Petrel

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[mailto:montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gary M.
Hyde
Sent: November 22, 2002 3:14 PM
To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: stoves and the big bang

Bill:
Do you cook in the M15 cabin with your Origo or just in the cockpit?
Thanks.

-- Gary Hyde
M15 #235 "Vanilla"

on 2002-11-06 5:20 PM, Bill Riker at wriker@mindspring.com wrote:

  I love my Origo.  To migitate the sharp corners, I keep it in a plastic
  dishpan. There is enough room around it for the potholder a butane
lighter.

  Bill Riker
  M-15 #184
  Storm Petrel

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  htmills@bright.net
  Sent: July 10, 2893 6:44 PM
  To: >Mboats<
  Subject: stoves and the big bang

  Scott,

  While I haven't actually used one of those Origos, I have seen some of
  the other M-boaters using them on the rendezvous' and I agree, they
  do seem very nice.

  I don't keep my propane cylinders in the cabin for the very reason you
  cited.  The risk of a leaking valve is very real (just had a leaking one
the
  other day) so when I'm not using them, they go in the wet locker on my
  17 with a low vent to the atmosphere through the transom.  If I had a 15
  I'd probably make the switch.

  The only thing I've seen about the Origo that I didn't particularly care
for
  were the rather sharp edges on it, but that's pretty minor.

  The burn time you list for a quart of fuel is very comparable to what I
get
  with a
  1# propane bottle.

  Tod




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