This is a great instructiable! Even if you aren't into the whole prepper / survival thing these are reasonable and good instructions to be able to salvage a stove and reuse it in a different way (or even the same way installing it into another RV) doesn't really matter. Its sound stewardship of the earth which is an extremely important lesson to teach our kids! So you get an A for that alone.

For me personally I always consider (and notably this is just me personally... everyone is different and anything is also acceptable) if we really are going for off Grid, well what does that term mean. I suppose this fits the bill in many ways.

I just want to toss in though, plan on other ways as well if you are truly going for an emergency disaster plan. I live in New England and we lost our power for 12 days during a freak ice storm that encased anything outside in an inch thick sheath of ice. It brought down numerous trees. Living on an old and long farm road we couldn't even get to town for the first four days and boiling a pot of water in 15 degrees took an amazing amount of propane. Talk about "a watched pot never boils"! Furthermore, once we could get into town (mostly because we sturdy New Englanders broke out our chain saws and worked together to clear trees from the roads... yep after the second day it really sunk in that we couldn't depend on road crews there was simply too much damage for them to handle) So once we COULD actually get into town there was no gas, no propane, Home Depot had long run out of generators. Even if deliveries for any product from gas to food had been able to get through which they couldn't because of all the trees down, no places that sold such products had power. There was no refrigeration at the markets, there was no power to run gas pumps. Propane under pressure worked until that ran out too.

And our governments response? And I will publicly complain here! FEMA should be ashamed of themselves! Their solution was to create a video that told us to take care of our neighbors and make sure they were safe and not freezing to death! The awesome part of that video, almost none of us had the power to view the video you realize, so we only found out about it after the issue had passed! Brilliant. I want a refund on my taxes for the fiasco! I am clearly paying for a service that I'm not getting!

So yes this stove is awesome and works well when everything is fine and dandy in life, (I might use such a stove to boil down maple sap into maple syrup for instance) AND it is a GREAT way to use something up (the discarded stove), which we all need to be doing in every facet of our lives, but in a real emergency it has a limited shelf life that being when you run out of propane. I vote have many levels of backup emergency gear in place, including some good old fashioned wood at your disposal. A dutch oven on a simple campfire will also cook food and boil water! For those reasons I may not consider it "off grid" as such. The Grid just like a food chain or food web that the children study in school has many different routes that ultimately affect many other things, when one path is disrupted there may be far reaching consequences that one did not formerly consider... just something to think about....

But overall I like this project very nicely done and you have come out with something that is attractive as well. Nice cabinet and great thinking to put the shelf for pots underneath! Great Job! I love that the kids helped! Good job dad! If everyone had involved their children years back in just such ways we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today with the environment! In other thoughts we MUST work to be as self sufficient as possible, because if you're waiting on the government for help well don't hold your breath! I consider here that perhaps the people in my area could have made use of military generators and why didn't they truck some in. Nope we got a video that we couldn't watch and which instructed us to do what we were already doing. It was a pretty huge failure on FEMA's part!