How to Bake Cookies for 100 in a Kitchen That Fits Two
A how-to guide on making things work.
A major aspect of transitioning to living on the road is downsizing. From a full-sized shower to one that’s mostly just a toilet. from a standard dining table to a two-seater dinette that doubles as a couch and triples as a spare bed. Everything shrinks when it comes to bus life. And the kitchen is no exception.
Kara loves to bake and her chocolate chip cookies are absolutely exquisite (queue twirl of a short pointy mustache) which is what sparked the idea for “Cleo’s Cookies”. However, when you’re used to using a full-sized kitchen with a double-decker oven, it can be quite the challenge of figuring out how to downsize to a 6-foot linear kitchen with a camping stove. But “challenges are what make us grow!”, is what we keep telling ourselves.
We knew we were way over our heads when we decided to bake 500 cookies and hand them out to people experiencing homelessness. But we also knew we were way too stubborn to not try which is why neither of us blinked an eye at the idea of baking more cookies than we ever had in an oven smaller than most kitchen cabinets.
The trick is to stay organized. pack each batch of cookies as they come and store them in a neatly packed box. This way you can keep them coming without running out of kitchen space. But that’s not the lesson in this story. The lesson is to never give up before you’ve even started. Life is full of unexpected turns and with those turns, you need to be able to read the road. Put your all into everything you do and I promise, you will never fail. Even if you don’t successfully accomplish the task at hand, you will learn how to do better next time. We baked countless batches of cookies before finding a system that works best for us. and that’s what life is all about, trying to figure out what works best for you.
