Exhaust Fan

I agree, we bought a 2014 R-pod with the small slide out. 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 decided that wasn't thinking, be nice to have after market brackets to hook one up 

Absolutely no vanilla scent. I hate it. If it smelt like a vanilla shake, yes. Line perfume, no.

We have a small George Foreman grill that's easy to take outside for the smokey stuff. 

If the weather is too bad, we have a shower cap that we cover the smoke alarm with.  That takes care of the alarm noise but not the lingering aroma.  For those times, we have talked about moving the GF grill into the john - but haven't yet. 

And sometimes in bad weather, it's easier to go out and avoid having those grease particles settle into the upholstery.  We figure it's all part of the Pod fun.  Flexibility is the key!

My idea was just a suggestion on the 178. Your 179 is totally different that what I do to help minimize coking smoke.

Had the door open. Stove on the left when you walk in. Not sure how the detector is mounted. Came installed. There was a breeze so it might have blown it back into the camper. It is when it is really raining. I have a few MRE's but not many. I know we can nuke our food or stick it in the oven and that is okay. I think I will buy a small fan and place it just past the stove to the door side and suck any off odors and smoke out the door. There is an outlet right below.

Above our house stove we have a hood that does not exhaust to the outside. Uses a charcoal filter. Does a great job. Might look into installing a small hood similar to it.