Outside Kitchen alternative

A cooktop and small refrigerator are easy had without paying for an outside kitchen. It's a waste of space.

We don't have one, but kinda wanted one. We kind of improvised and created one.

We have a large storage compartment under a bunk in the rear, and it has a light in it. We use it as a Buffett type area. We found a folding table at SAMs Club called a tailgater table that was only $40, and has a metal foldout to hold the Weber baby Q, and we put a 2 burner camp stove on the table. It also has hooks to hang the grill tools, and a roll of paper towels.

I've looked at some mini fridges that will fit in the storage compartment, I just have to run power and buy the fridge.

After getting this set up, I think it really suits me better than the built in ones.

Don't have outside kitchen but if waste water goes to waste tank that would be a deal breaker for me. I have a fish filet table with the faucet hooked up to outside water hydrant. The fridge access from outside would be nice feature but not having an outside kitchen would not be a deal breaker. I suspect there is extra weight with it and pretty sure you are loosing storage space elsewhere.

We do almost all of our food preparation outside, except in the worst of weather. We use an electric griddle and an electric skillet for almost everything we fix. Our Outback has a flip down 2 burner stove and outside hot and cold faucet with a no drain sink. We use the flip down for water, especially washing dishes, but rarely use the 2 burner propane stove top. Almost everything we do is on a picnic table. About outside refrigerators? We have an electric cooler, on its back its a cooler, on its end, it's a refrigerator. When we need extra refrigerator space, we use this. But there again, most of our camping, we never need it.

The flip down stove top is OK for boiling water (which the electric griddles can't do), but that's about all we've used them for.

We've done a lot of camping, and we people watch. (when you get older, you just do this). And one thing we've noticed about outside kitchens, folks open them up and use the refrigerator for drinks, and that's about all. It's amazing how many folks will have the outside kitchens and then still do food preparation over a camp fire.

Just get yourself one of these along with a 2 burner camp stove.
Hook up the water to your outside shower and you'll have hot water for dishes as well.

We don't have one - we see them on units in parks, but have never seen anyone use one other than to get a beer out of the frig.

I faced the same problem. I solved it by purchasing a Camp Chef stove and the hardware to attach and use it with my propane quick connect.
It works much better than my previous outside kitchen.