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JWP127
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Dec 09, 2017

Deposit made!

Just put a deposit down on a Kodiak 285 BHSL. Other than lacking an outdoor kitchen, it has everything we want. And the weight (5700 pounds unloaded) is good for my truck, a Ram 2500 6.4, to tow it on long trips.

My wife said she could forgo the kitchen, and we do have a grill and a Coleman burner. We'll just keep our drinks in a cooler since there's no outdoor fridge.
  • DutchmenSport wrote:
    Congrats!

    FYI, we use electric griddles and an electric skillet for food preparation on the picnic table. Been doing it this way since tent camping days. We very seldom fix meals inside the camper, unless its raining wild or below freezing temperatures. Our current camper has an outside stove. But we prefer the electric griddles.

    And about that outside refrigerator. We've had one of these since our pop-up days when it came with an ice box and not a refrigerator. I removed the ice box and turned it into storage, and used one of these for refrigeration. The first on we purchased lasted 15 years. We now have one like this, 2 years old. Keep it on it's back and use for a cooler rather than a refrigerator. We can get more in it that way. Keep it plug in 24x7 and loaded with soft drinks all the time. Easy to move outside the camper, or take with us when traveling: Click here. No ice needed, works great, and no mess with water to dump as ice melts. Nothing gest wet. On back, is a cooler. On end, it's a refrigerator. One of the best "gadgets" we ever bought for camping.


    The problem with those is they claim to cool 40 degrees below ambient, which means on a 90 degree day my beer would be 50 degrees. I use a cooler full of ice instead.
  • Congrats!

    FYI, we use electric griddles and an electric skillet for food preparation on the picnic table. Been doing it this way since tent camping days. We very seldom fix meals inside the camper, unless its raining wild or below freezing temperatures. Our current camper has an outside stove. But we prefer the electric griddles.

    And about that outside refrigerator. We've had one of these since our pop-up days when it came with an ice box and not a refrigerator. I removed the ice box and turned it into storage, and used one of these for refrigeration. The first on we purchased lasted 15 years. We now have one like this, 2 years old. Keep it on it's back and use for a cooler rather than a refrigerator. We can get more in it that way. Keep it plug in 24x7 and loaded with soft drinks all the time. Easy to move outside the camper, or take with us when traveling: Click here. No ice needed, works great, and no mess with water to dump as ice melts. Nothing gest wet. On back, is a cooler. On end, it's a refrigerator. One of the best "gadgets" we ever bought for camping.
  • No outdoor kitchen here either. No miss. First thing set up is the grill clamped to the picnic table & the fridge is 2 steps from the door.