Del Cecchi wrote:

> ~patches~ wrote:
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>> We live in an area where the power goes out quite often during storms.
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> snip
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>> This recent outage had me looking around at all the gadgets/appliance
>> I use that run on electricity. I was glad the breadmaker wasn't on
>> and I hadn't been in the middle of canning something! I am more
>> determined than ever to convert to a gas range. Cooking outdoors
>> during a power outage in the winter is the pits!
>>
> two words.
>
> Coleman Stove.
>
> del cecchi
>
Yes we have one but had the side door of the garage so piled up I
couldn't open it and the garage door opener is electric so no getting
into the garage. Even then cooking outdoors in the winter when the
power is out is not very pleasant since usually the wind is whipping
copious amounts of snow. We've used the coleman in the garage before
when the wind wasn't whipping snow into the garage.