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Gary Scott Beatty's avatar

This would have worked wonderfully in my sleep-at-the-local-campground-in-my-van convention days.

Paul Riddell's avatar

Thank you. I could have used one of these so many times at conventions, especially at cons where the nearest restaurant was an impossible-to-walk distance. I see so many smaller cons that stick to the same crappy hotel because, to quote one con chair, "we can get it cheaper," and the hotel is cheaper because it's absolutely impossible to find food other than the borderline-ptomaine hotel restaurant within walking distance. Here in Texas, that's particularly prominent, where guests flying in discover that it's 115F outside, the nearest fast-food place (much less a decent restaurant where the menu isn't half sodium) is nearly two miles away, and EVERYTHING in the vicinity closes on Friday afternoon when all of the office workers in the area go home. (I still can't eat teriyaki due to a nearly obscene experience in Boston in the late 1990s, where the hotel restaurant closed just as I got in and every other place in the strip plaza a quarter-mile away had been closed for hours.) I got to the point of staying at a Residence Inn when I had to do shows in Austin just so I could cook without dealing with the psychopaths on the road. This, honestly, is BETTER.

chucksax's avatar

How cool! Thinking about borrowing your portable oven idea for travel baseball weekends!

Chris Halliday's avatar

Genius!

Jonathan Hedrick's avatar

Thanks for sharing this!

I’m also always looking out for something to dry Posca markers quickly. Like a portable heat lamp or something like that.

Colleen Doran's avatar

I’m not sure this would be a good choice. It is small. A hair dryer would serve you better.

Jonathan Hedrick's avatar

That’s what I was thinking. But I also have a buddy who’s trying to whip something up using a 3D printer too.

Ulysses's avatar

You seem to always have amazing hair. What's the secret?

Colleen Doran's avatar

HA! Not always, in the video I just posted, I thought I looked pretty scruffy

Phyllis Sanfiorenzo's avatar

I really love your product ideas and plan on purchasing most of them, thank you!!

E.R. Flynn's avatar

Damn that would be handy when camping! I assume though not so friendly when it comes to trying to get past TSA with it.

Colleen Doran's avatar

No trouble it goes in my suitcase. It doesn’t have a battery. And you can plug it in your car cigarettes lighter

E.R. Flynn's avatar

Excellent!

Colleen Doran's avatar

It’s smaller than the average dop kit