I find myself in a hotel wanting to cook with my hiking stove (Butane Mix).
Anyone know if it would set off a smoke alarm?
I find myself in a hotel wanting to cook with my hiking stove (Butane Mix).
Anyone know if it would set off a smoke alarm?
The butane itself won't, no.
I have used my jetboil while in a hotel room.
I usually fire up my butane stove in the bathroom and turn on the fan. No smoke detectors in here. I've never had a problem.
Most hotels/motels forbid use of open flame cooking (only allowing their own microwaves to be used), so there is an insurance and legal aspect that may want to be considered. I have seen hotels charge people for cleaning up following over cooking French fries (for anyone who has seen this happen, that creates a huge amount of smoke) that required bed linens, curtains, and carpeting to be replaced.
With my luck, if I tried this a cobweb would gently float into the burner, sending a teeny tiny wisp of smoke directly into the smoke detector causing massive mayhem, destruction, and panic. So, I would recommend engaging the Captain Blue solution, if doing this outside on a table is not going to work, set up on the bathtub or shower floor with the fan going and door closed just in case.
While you might not see signs, most hotels don't even allow candles.
And I'm sure management would have a conniption if they found out someone was using a stove with an open flame in their rooms.
And please consider this... four collage students were killed here in Birmingham, AL back in 2010 in a hotel fire that started from someone burning incense in another room.
So I would ask that you be considerate... if you have to crank up a stove, do so somewhere outside.
Yeah I'm not a very good example I'd be the first to admit.
Probably is against hotel regulations and is dangerous.
But then again there's folks out there falling asleep with a cigarette in their mouth and burning up. That's why they had to add an extra 1,000 chemicals so they burn.
People catch woods on fire, catch themselves on fire by using a gallon of gas to start a fire.
Just saying.
1,000 chemicals so they burn out . (Oops).
It's one of those things that has the potential added downside of the establishment choosing to no longer accept hikers as guests.
A box of Oreos will cure your desire for fire.
What exactly are you looking to cook? No microwave? Usually at least one in the lobby. Try Doordash or UberEats.
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A small electric kettle can be had for around $25. I use one to make instant coffee. Mine has automatic shutoff but I never leave it unattended.
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i use my stove in hotels all the time....
if i cant think it can be done in the room, i just step outside...
most hotels have at least one sorta flat concrete surface that is perfectly usable....
and i cook soup in it....
anything else i can do in a microwave-----which im about to walk to the lobby of the hotel im at tonight
and reheat some pulled pork....
What exactly are you looking to cook? No microwave? Usually at least one in the lobby. Try Doordash or UberEats.
easier to save money by not using those services along with them not really delivering around
1 am, or 2 am, or 3 am.....
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Sleepin by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he wanta but he can't call me..."
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Soup cooks in a microwave too by the way.
not the way i like it......
Cheaper to not stay in the hotel in the first place.
at this stage of what i have been doing for the last few years, hotels are the convenient necessity....
eat cheap to keep going....
they don't need to know what's happening behind my closed door.....
i have yet to set off the smoke alarm, burn the place down, get hit with an additional "smoking" charge, or
get kick outta a hotel.....
i'm the least of their worries.......
"Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Sleepin by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he wanta but he can't call me..."
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