Re: Cooking on the '19

Ted Duke (tedduke@usa.net)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:39:49 -0400


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Rye,

I have never tried cooking an egg on my Potter but suspect
the proper way is to break the large end on a P18-19 and the
small end on the P14-15. Perhaps we should all practice and
Labor Day weekend we could hold an egg cooking contest or
something.

Now what's really up, are you bored? <bg>

Ted

Rye Gewalt wrote:
>
> My HMS 18 came with the standard Butane stove and I am
> very impressed with its performance. I can boil a pot of
> water for tea in no time -- it seems hotter than most
> other small stoves I have seen and suspect that Butane is
> a really good fuel.
>
> My question is this: I always like to have eggs in the
> morning and am planning to overnight one of these
> weekends. I just don't know which end of the egg to break
> first when preparing them. Has much thought been given to
> this and might it differ depending on boat size.
>
> Regards
> Rye Gewalt
> Grace II 1990 HMS18 Short Rig
> Springfield VA - (Potomac River)
>
>
> "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much
> worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out
> of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter,
> that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether
> you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or
> whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
> anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do
> anything in particular; and when you've done it there's
> always something else to do, and you can do it if you
> like, but you'd much better not."
> Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), Wind in the Willows
>