A quick review of my fleece blanket. I live off grid so things like heat and heating blankets are hard to have since we don’t have traditional electricity. Unfortunately, it has been cold and windy the past few weeks here in FL. When I lived in a large home with electricity I would use an electric blanket to keep warm and wondered if I could find one for the boat. Well of course I found one on amazon. The best part of this blanket is that it runs off 12-volt.
The blanket I choose was Roadpro 12-volt fleece heated blanket. The blanket is 100% polar fleece material which makes it super cozy. It plugs directly into your 12-volt socket and it only draws 4.6 amps or (55 watts). It has an 8ft power cord with LED indicator on the plug so at night I can tell it is still on. I have been using my blanket for the past few weeks. It is not a huge blanket only 58” x 42.5” but it works great across our queen size bed. The nice thing about this one is that it works great and doesn’t use a lot of power, so I can use it all night long. This review is not sponsored by Amazon or by Roadpro. Please support our tiny living blog and purchase from our affiliate link below. As always thank you for checking out my blog remember to keep living the dream but tiny.
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We got a family gift for our tiny home. We added an instant pot to our cooking essentials. Living on a boat especially on the hook can add challenges to healthy cooking. I already have some great products that I use daily. I have always been a huge cook and I loved using a crockpot. I purchased a 12v crockpot, so I can use it only on solar, but they really don’t make them large enough for our family and it uses more power then it should. I was looking for another solution. The solution I found was the instant pot. I used it two times so far which is why I am saying it is a small review. The first thing I do have to mention if you are using this product in a tiny space with limited power you will need a generator if you get the size I have. Now I’m not saying if your solar panels can handle the 1000 watts that’s great, but I like to use my house batteries for stuff like lights etc. at night. With the power issue addressed I have to say that I am pleased with the size of instant pot I purchased. The pot is a 6qt which is a lot but not for me I cook for 3 adults plus 1 adult lunch every day. This instant pot has some great features soup/broth, meat/stew, cake, egg, sauté, rice cooker, multigrain, porridge, steam, slow cook. So far, the only features I tried are sauté, soup and meat. The two meals I made are Salisbury steak and whole chicken. I used the sauté feature to fry the hamburger patties prior to adding the other ingredients. Then I used the meat feature to make the entire meal. It only took me around 30 minutes to complete everything which is good because normally I would use a crockpot taking 4-6 hours to cook. The next thing I cooked was a whole 5lb chicken and vegs. I only used the sauté feature which took only 30 minutes to fully cook. I don’t know about you but when I lived in a house and oven baked a whole chicken even in the convention oven took over 3 hours. The chicken came out so yummy and was falling off the bone. I highly recommend this product and will be posting recipes soon. |
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October 2019
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