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Default Cooking in a hotel room, revisited

Rusty wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> It's two weeks until the trip and I've had a couple more thoughts.
>>
>> It was mentioned, and I'm leaning towards pan-fried steaks. He
>> loves filet minon; I'd go with either that or pan-fried NY strip.
>> Heck, I even told him I'd nuke "baked potatoes" LOL
>>

>
> Just watch out for the hotel smoke detectors. Even a little smoke
> (sometimes just a little vapor) from normal cooking can set them off.
> Have a towel ready to wave in front of it to fan the smoke away. The
> hotels also tend to provide real thin pans. It's easy to overheat
> them.
>
> Don't ask me how I know. But I know. ;-)
>
> Rusty


True, but when I cooked there last year it wasn't a problem. And the
windows *do* open, for which I'm grateful. I like fresh air As for the
cookware, yes, it's thin, cheap stuff. If they provided top of the line
imagine how much of it would walk out the door!

Jill