Whitevanwoman,
Sorry about the late reply!
Btw, I did make a few posts on this forum, but they were mostly down in the imbeciles and raving loonies' section in the basement!
Phil did the right thing, imo, in segregating the main forum from all the high tension farting that goes on down below the watershed.
When I'm down there, I'm as bad as the rest of 'em, imo, but let's get back to this important post:
Basically, I think we'll find that full-on travellers, with family in tow and work commitments to meet whilst on the trail, will be the type to use burners ans stoves. And yes, this form of heat can be dusty and messy and a lot of work.
Others, with pristine icecreamvans, and whose mission on the road is primarily holidaying and tourism, would probably be advised to avoid burners and use instead the other forms of heating that have been mentioned.
I ain't going to advise anyone anything on here, as, like the Man said about advice:
" the Wise don't need it, and the Fools don't heed it."
Pretty pointless, so.
Also, I don't suppose I could ever shake off the time-warp I seem to live in, even if I wanted to. When you've seen something as natural all your life, 'tis hard to suddenly start fretting about other people's fears and worries about them.
When I first immigrated here, I saw some strange and wonderful things, some of which did make me stare in awe. Things like huge steam-engines a -puffing and a-blowing on the railways, and like the old fish- and chip -van ( old smokie, coke-powered cooking) that would do the rounds of the villages on Fridays.
For some reason, nobody seemed to be cowering at the thought of imminent death by explosion and chunks of shrapnel, but, more to the point, you could find some pretty substantial bones in the fish in those old days!
As for insurance issues, I have no idea, though somebody did tell me once that cigarette lighters, pressure-cookers and deep-fat fryers are banned in some quarters because they're very dangerous.
Good luck to all!
sean rua.
