outdoor kitchens

Steven0110 wrote:


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.

I doubt I'll bring my tenting days Cabela's deluxe kitchen with us when we RV even though I want to minimise indoor cooking as much as possible. It's useful to a point but learned that as long as we have a picnic table we could ditch the weight (50 lbs) of the camp kitchen, set up a Weber charcoal Go Anywhere on the table and cook fine for up to 6 people on a short trip (4-5 days) w/o it. Since that works for tenting think the same will be true for us RVing:).