Cooking on the Road with the RockPot
When you are living life on the road, eating healthy, home-cooked meals doesn’t have to take a back seat on travel days or off-grid stays. One of our favorite kitchen tools in the trailer is the RockPot—a non-electric thermal slow cooker that comes in handy whether we are boondocking and conserving battery power, or just headed out to explore for the day and want a hot meal waiting for us when we return.
Today, seasoned pork tenderloin with onions and garlic is on the menu! Here is a look at how simple it is to prep and cook a delicious, hot main dish right on the road without using an ounce of electricity.
Step 1: Preheat the Ceramic Disc & Sear the Meat
To get started, we place the special ceramic heating disc directly onto our Gas One burner and set the stainless steel inner cooking pot right on top of it. As the ceramic disc heats up and stores thermal energy, we brown the seasoned pork tenderloin on all sides and toss in our chopped onions and garlic.
Browning the seasoned pork tenderloin and onions inside the pot]
Step 2: Simmer for 30 Minutes
Once the pork tenderloin is nicely browned on all sides, we put the lid on the stainless steel pot and let everything heat and simmer over the burner for 30 minutes. This brings the food up to cooking temperature while fully charging the white ceramic disc underneath with radiant heat.
The stainless steel pot heating atop the white ceramic disc on the Gas One stove]
Step 3: Transfer to the Insulated Container
After 30 minutes on the flame, it is time to let thermal retention do the rest of the work! We remove the pot from the disc, and using the provided metal hook tool, carefully lift the hot ceramic disc and place it directly into the bottom of the insulated RockPot container.
The open insulated RockPot container ready for the inner pot]
Step 4: Seal It Up and Hit the Trail
Next, we lower the inner stainless steel cooking pot right back onto the heated ceramic disc inside the insulated unit, close the heavy insulated inner lid, and zip the entire unit up tightly inside its green canvas carrying case.
The RockPot zipped up securely in its green canvas carry case.
Step 5: Hours Later—Dinner is Served!
From there, the RockPot takes over, slowly cooking the meal using the trapped heat from the ceramic disc. Whether we are traveling down the highway or out hiking and exploring for the afternoon, hours later we open it up to a tender, flavorful, piping-hot main dish ready to enjoy!
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