Do you use your outside kitchen?

Nvr2loud wrote:

JA722 wrote:
Yes, YES, 1000x YES!

We tent camped for 25 years. We had long given up on the pain in the neck camp stove and cooked everything on the campfire. We were very proud of our use of the campfire and wanted to continue to cook by the campfire when we purchased our first TT last year.

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You found the camp stove to be a pain in the neck?

We have several and I love them all, very easy to use. I have two of the coleman 2-burner propane ones. I have two of the little single burner white-fuel ones for tent camping. I never have a problem with any of them, work flawlessly every time.

I agree. I have 2 Coleman gas stoves and love them both. In fact, I just recently replaced the tank and generator on one which plugged....after 36 years!!! First failure since 1978...and Coleman still has parts for it!! The last time out, one guy saw me cooking on it and invited me to his campsite to see his Coleman that was 6 years older than mine!!

All the time. I cook outside as well (gas stoves, grill) but I have lots of storage so I don't really need to go in and out of our trailer for much of anything. I prepare the food outside, put it in the fridge outside and I'm good.

We've talked of upgrading but have not found a unit w/ a similar kitchen. Right now, I couldn't camp w/o it. If you like being outside, you won't regret it.

We have an outside kitchen and use it all the time. The fridge is perfect for beverages and the only time we don't fill the outside fridge is if it's cold outside and we're not downing fluids. I use the grill a lot and the cooktop on occasion. I will admit that I like the cooktop b/c when I grill I can make a side dish right there, no running into the camper for it.
Now that I have it, I'd prefer to have it with my next camper as well.

As someone considering selling his class A and downsizing to a TT, I keep seeing the general lack of outside storage compared to my current basement and would love the outdoor kitchen space empty for storage. Cooking inside doesn't bother us at all.

Great topic. We frankly don't cook that much. I know its odd but we just don't do it. Having said that the only floorplans we really liked all came with outdoor kitchens.

The unit we choose has a small outdoor kitchen space. Tiny fridge, tiny sink, a counter that pulls out, and a shelf, nothing fancy at all.

But boy has that little thing come in handy!

Since it's pretty basic we store our director chairs on the counter while they are not in use, keep some extra drinks in the fridge. Store our marshmallow sticks and etcetera out there.

When I do cook on the fire or the bumper mount grill the counter space makes a great prep space. If we need to nuke something we use the one inside.

All in all I ended up using it 1,000% more than I thought I would and I would not be without it.

Our 2604 doesn't have an outside kitchen. We did discuss it very briefly and agreed that it was extra cost and weight we didn't need. We use the oven virtually every trip, "cook" - as in boil water or cook veggies - inside, use the microwave, coffee, etc inside. We bought just a simple electric skillet that we use outside for bacon, etc and we're good. We did keep our 2-burner Coleman, but haven't had it out of the garage since the last tent trip in 2006. We enjoy cooking and having things when we're camping that DS#1 either can't eat or wouldn't be caught dead eating, so that's our time to indulge. It's looking like more and more trailers are having the outside kitchens and obviously a lot of folks love them. We're still fine as is.

Wow! Thanks for all of the feedback! In the 6 years we've had a TT, the only cooking we've done outside is whenever we grill with the Weber Baby Q, and a couple of times I cooked breakfast on an electric griddle on the picnic table.

Most of the time we've used the TT more as a motel room on wheels than for "camping". Now that I'm retired though, I can see where a more relaxed pace might make cooking outside more attractive, unless it's too hot, cold, rainy, or buggy (we are liable to have all 4 the same day where we go).

6.7 tow rig wrote:
Will never own another camper without one. We absolutely love it. We added a microwave inside the cabinet to ours pretty much making the kitchen inside unused. Not having to run inside to get things keeps the inside clean. That coupled with the door going straight to the bathroom our floors dont see dirt for the entire trip.

Well worth the money

Floor without dirt.... I can only dream!

JA722 wrote:
Yes, YES, 1000x YES!

We tent camped for 25 years. We had long given up on the pain in the neck camp stove and cooked everything on the campfire. We were very proud of our use of the campfire and wanted to continue to cook by the campfire when we purchased our first TT last year.

!

You found the camp stove to be a pain in the neck?

We have several and I love them all, very easy to use. I have two of the coleman 2-burner propane ones. I have two of the little single burner white-fuel ones for tent camping. I never have a problem with any of them, work flawlessly every time.

19 days camping last year (In a trailer we now sold) and never cooked a meal inside. Only used the micro a few times to heat something up. Camping to us is about cooking on the grill, campfire, or eating out. Wish we had a fancy outdoor kitchen.