Thread: Off-grid LPG gas cooker

If you go that route, you need to know you will have an ongoing supply of fuel - I have over 400ha, mostly bush!

Crikey, youse city folk have a cloistered existence

Just go to any rural towns white goods store select your gas oven/stove/cooktop (which already has LPG jettting), give the local plumber a ring and you're cooking up a storm

Anyway, that's what we did. The only thing that runs on 240v is the oven light, display and the auto lighter. It can be lit with a match or piezo igniter if required. It's a modern Italian sounding name chrome and black stove without a fan forced oven. Griller is LPG.

I've still got the old free standing LPG stove in the shed, free to good home it's a Chef 'Concorde' which may give some idea of its age.

Deano

Originally Posted by JDNSW

If you go that route, you need to know you will have an ongoing supply of fuel - I have over 400ha, mostly bush!

I have 10 acres, 5 is bush plus a bit more around the rest.

Black & golden wattle is good, the other stuff ....... manna and swamp gum not so good.

I reckon I'd be sustainable with firewood where I am on this acreage. Will be planting more wattles though.

Taken me 8 years to be confident about this.

DL

I only use ironbark. Still cutting up the firebreak the RFS did round the house the last fire twelve years ago.

I hate to be a PITA... Nope, nobody will believe that statement....

So, simple question: How do you go off-grid while using LPG? Petrol? Diesel? The answer is that you can't. To go off-grid, you either need to go back to burning wood/peat/coal/dung, or you need to either freeze or go and herd goats.

Ask the Afghanis or Greeks what raw goat tastes like. They won't be able to tell you, as they used fire to cook goat.

Burning LPG is NOT going off-grid, and you need to understand it. You are merely moving "the grid" elsewhere..

Buy a Tesla. It's essentially the same thing, a lie. Well intentioned for sure, but a lie nevertheless.





'Ducks for cover'. Not really.

John,

Surely that is semantics at play.
If by “OffGrid” the OP meant they were not wanting to be connected to Australia’s Electricity 240VAC supply - well then he could have a nuclear reactor in his back shed and still call it off-grid.

If by “off-grid” you are meaning hippified planet saving environmentalist or hardcore Prepper well that’s different and perhaps a LPG bottle is a failing of that word off-grid.


Somehow I think OP meant the former type of off-grid.

S

"The Grid" in this context is the state or territory electricity grid and "off grid" simply means to not connect to this grid.

The concept is often extended to include not connecting to other grid-like services such as reticulated gas and water, very occasionally to include communications services such as telephone and internet (including mobile and satellite), and even more rarely to include other communal services such as education, health etc.

I cannot recall an example of it being extended to mean changing to a non-carbon emitting way of life, although people who go "off grid" will often be the same ones who try to reduce their emissions, and occasionally this is the motivation. The more usual motivation is cost, reliability, or perhaps the most common, being cranky with grid suppliers that are almost by definition an effective monopoly.

Originally Posted by DeanoH

Crikey, youse city folk have a cloistered existence

Just go to any rural towns white goods store select your gas oven/stove/cooktop (which already has LPG jettting), give the local plumber a ring and you're cooking up a storm

Anyway, that's what we did. The only thing that runs on 240v is the oven light, display and the auto lighter. It can be lit with a match or piezo igniter if required. It's a modern Italian sounding name chrome and black stove without a fan forced oven. Griller is LPG.

I've still got the old free standing LPG stove in the shed, free to good home it's a Chef 'Concorde' which may give some idea of its age.

Deano

Hi Deano,
Any chance of finding the name of the oven you have, the misses is very interested.