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We have the Bravoska. Just come back from Braemar where we spent the New Year. The Bravoska was brilliant. Great for cooking roast potatoes, spag bol, chilli, and only used the very low heat at that! With the lid on, it didn't seem to steam up the van too.
We also took a Baby Belling Pronto induction hub with us, so we were virtually gas-free cooking. Might as well make use of the electric hook-up when we can.
The reason for the induction hub was that when in Wales in October, the regulator failed and we had to come home to get it fixed. We said then, as the regulators were not reliable it would be nice to have a back-up.
Pammy
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We've used a standard-sized Remoska for several years and it's great; didn't know about Bravoska till I read it in this thread but I do see one immediate drawback, at least for us.
Standard Remoska draws 470 watts whereas the spec for the Bravoska is 1250 watts. This would rule it out for us because, contrary to some earlier posts in this thread, occasionally we do run the Remoska on our inverter (1200 watts) when no hook-up is available.
We use the same cooking time for everything: between 45 and 50 minutes (maybe distribute the food differently) which means that we will draw a total of 30 - 32 Ah from the battery. The battery is 125Ah (5 hour rating) which means that because we are drawing current faster than its rating we are likely to be using somewhat more of its capacity than 30 - 32 Ah.
Even so, provided we start with a fully charged battery, there still seems to be enough capacity to cook the evening meal and run our other consumers (sparingly) to last until the morning without discharging the battery below around 50 per cent which is always my aim.
This does mean that I need to put charge back into the battery as soon as possible the next day. Our 40 watt solar panel will begin to do this to a small degree but if we are not moving on I might run our small Honda generator for a while (if we can do it without disturbing anyone).
We couldn't do this for two night's in a row however; to solve this and to altogether remove generator inhibitions I see the complete power solution as being an Efoy fuel cell, which we will be installing soon.
David
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What we find better with the Bravoska.
A. You can unplug the power cable and leave the lid on.
B. It is more compact having no large handles.
C. you can if desired use it like an electric frying pan.
D. you can brown the meat, onions etc as in C then turn it over and use as a slow cooker etc. ( as per Remoska )
E. you can vary the temperature.
One main drawback is if you are cooking directly into the hot side things do stick unless the pan is well oiled. Non-stick it aint.
Our Remoska shorts out at the slightest hint of moisure in the lid. I am now quite adept at taking the lid to pieces and drying it out.
Bearing in mind ours is 4 years old and the last one I repaired for a fellow camper in France had a totally different element design.
Hope this helps. Life is one continual round of difficult decisions
Steve
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What we find better with the Bravoska.
A. You can unplug the power cable and leave the lid on.
B. It is more compact having no large handles.
E. you can vary the temperature.
Steve
Thanks for this Steve - it certainly does help.
These (in your quote) are the features we would value most, with Item A as perhaps the biggest plus. Having the lid tethered to the wall is a nuisance, and in some situations it could be quite dangerous.
WHOOPS - more EU Health and Safety legislation on the way!
thanks for all this, was swithering between the 2 makes , which size to buy.
Strangely had I read 'Lakeland' properly it does tell you that the baby Remoska is perfect for one. Now the problem is to decide if I buy the 'Grand' one for when the family join us or the 'standard' for ourselves; The Grand is 32cm in diametre, the standard 21cm- £20 of a difference.
decisions, decisions
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