outdoor kitchens

1stgenfarmboy wrote:
reason 1.

When we bought our 2017 it was on the must have list, when we camp about 1/3 of the time our kids and grandkids are there, If my wife misses one special moment because she is in the camper cooking that would make her sad.....I don't want a sad wife.


reason 2.

Other times we camp with friends and we are always sitting around the fire and talking and having a good time, I didn't want her to miss any of that.

reason 3.

we are bird watchers and quite a few times she will be making coffie, breakfast and such when a bird we have never seen comes blasting through camp....another miss for momma.

thats all I got.

Ditto reason 2 above; The times we have used outdoor kitchen are when we camp as a group or extended family or meet and greets. Is a great way to commune and hold potluck style feasts.

I know this is discussion about slide out/ fold out kitchen option, but I want to share (little off topic); In one of my previous trailers, only a Tahoe 19DT, tiny kitchen-we used to go camping with a pop-up trailer group in Northern Cal. We were introduced to the "portable" outdoor kitchen. THe pop-up group people were camping experts! they started with a 10x10 portable Costco canopy, Campchef 3 burner stove, folding table and Cabella's outdoor kitchen (great unit!) in a L shape. All of these items packed into floor of 10 ft pop up. they could set this up in <10 minutes. They would pull propane bottle off front of pop-up and use a LPG manifold and hose to pipe in multiple lanterns and supply campchef stove. They could feed 100 people from this operation with 3 cooks working side by side.

We loved this setup so much we bought our own setup as portable kitchen-still use it today with our big trailer when we group camp-or even when just my family. We also bought a commercial pancake batter dispenser for use with it (different story!). Once we set it up, that is where we end up cooking for duration.