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Cooking in the RPof

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Topic: Cooking in the RPof

Posted By: LeonMBarnes
Subject: Cooking in the RPof
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2025 at 7:50pm

Does anyone do real cooking on the RPod's cook top? Does not appear to be vented to the outside. Any more than boiling water will trip the smoke detector.

Thanks in advance,

Leon and Johanne Barnes
Adventures in Retirement

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Leon and Johanne Barnes
Adventures in Retirement

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Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2025 at 11:03pm

I ended up doing most of the cooking outside because of the smoke detector. As you note, there is no vent above the stove. While we no longer have the RPod, the Cherokee Grey Wolf is only marginally better. It has a vent hood, but a weak fan and it will still set the smoke detector off if I try to do anything that generates smoke. So, I still do the grilling and frying outside. I started to take the smoke detector down and cover it with a pillow until after I am done cooking. After all, if it is pouring outside and I can't cook outside, we still need to eat.

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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,...

http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods
Former RPod 179
Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS

Posted By: ppine
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2025 at 10:50am

Smoke detectors need to go.

I like cooking in the trailer in colder weather.

Even making coffee warms up the rig.

In the summer I cook outside except for breakfast.

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Forester
2022 Ram diesel
2019 Nash 26N
2015 rpod 177

Posted By: MoPod
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2025 at 11:01am

My solution is to put a shower cap over the smoke alarm when cooking. Every morning I was rudely awaken when my husband made toast, before I happened on this solution.

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Bill & Nancy
2015 RPod 179
Previously 2010 RPod 176
2014 Explorer Sport