Customer Reviews

Cooking Aboard Your RV

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This cookbook had some limited use for me. It was a short introduction on tips for RV cooking. Overall some good general tips, but nothing that probably isn't in a good trade magazine. As an experienced camping and backpacking cook I was hoping for information on RV cooking now that I have a refrigerator. It does give some good recipes that utilize the better facilities of an RV. However about half the recipes assume you have an oven as well. My small Class B RV doesn't have an oven. Therefore, half the book is useless for me. Overall a slightly disappointing book that I wish I had looked over before purchasing.

I thought this book would provide more insight on kitchen appliances and ways to downsize but cook different meals. The recipes were awful in my opinion and I would not want to eat them even at home, much less on the open road. A few good hints but not at the price of buying the book brand new.

I got this at the library hoping to find some interesting recipes and tips that I could use while car camping, or while staying at a base camp with more amenities than you have while backpacking. While having some interesting recipes, this book was definitely into using canned/frozen and convenience foods.

Yes, I know you can pack a lot of stuff into an RV, but that doesn't mean you should. The biggest benefit is having the refrigerator to keep perishables such as fruits and vegetables in, and few recipes mentioned using fresh anything. Considering that you can even get lots of fruits and veggies pre-cut and bagged in most grocery stores/warehouse stores fairly inexpensively, this book reads as if it were written in the '50s or 60's with all the casserole add-a-can-of-cream-soup recipes.

Borrow from your library first before buying.

I'm glad I checked this out at the library before buying, because it saved me ten bucks. The recipes are dated---most resort to using canned, processed and high sodium shelf foods as shortcuts. Out of the entire book, I only found three recipes I would try. The rest sounded not only unhealthy, but lousy-tasting! Ugh!