Exhaust Fan

Our detector must be super sensitive. I guess that is great if I have a fire. Wife fixed toast in a toaster and it set it off. I could not see any smoke. Shower cap cover in the works. We cook very little in the camper it was just an easy way to prepare toast.

We just did the same thing on our Maiden Pod Voyage: set the smoke alarm off, first meal.

Like others I think outdoor cooking has to be the answer. The more I think about it the more I realize that most of my cooking is a greasy, splattery mess anyway, and that would just stink up and slime up the Pod permanently. but it would not nearly as bad with an exhaust fan...

The point is well taken: WHY IS THERE NO EXHAUST FAN OVER THE COOKTOP?  Not even as an option? An intellectual failure from the Good Folks at Forest River. IMHO.

I moved our smoke alarm to the other end of the camper over the bed 179.   We run the bathroom fan on low or open the door.  

We do our cooking outside also, but owning a Motorhome and travel trailer prior to my R-pod. At the coast when it gets cold and windy...a exhaust fan is very much needed. The company needs to come up with a exhaust fan after market to fix their mistake of not having one in the first place.

I agree, we bought a 2014 R-pod with the small slide out new a few years ago. My husband liked it because of the easy towing. I never even noticed no hood and exhaust fan, guess I kind of took for granted if you had a stove top, there would be exhaust. Makes the burners kind of a waste, you can use the microwave but dry camping without electricity...your kind of out of luck for anything fried. Whoever designed that wasn't thinking, be nice to have after market brackets to hook one up. We did turn on shower exhaust, open door and windows, and unplug fire alarm the one time I tried to fry bacon. Never again, wouldn't want the walls to get smoke or grease smell. Very bad design!!!