Outside kitchen?

Are you full timing or weekend/vacationtype?
It does make a difference

had one without and one with. We like our outside kitchen. It is very handy to have. I would buy another one with a outside kitchen in a heartbeat.We are not fulltimers. Mine doesnt have a awning over it either.

Ours is not a full kitchen. It's a drop down sink and 2 burner stove. Considering we do almost 100% cooking outside, yes, it get used a lot. We don't really have a need for an outside refrigerator. We do have a Coleman electric cooler. On it's back it's like an ice chest, on it's end, it's like a small refrigerator. Works great for us. But, it usually stays inside the camper, very rarely do we take it outside.

Would I want a full outside kitchen? Nah. The pop-down sink with hot and cold water (attached to a yard sprayer) and the 2 burner stove works very will for us.

The hose with yard sprayer works great for an outside shower too.

Ours is under the awning. It takes very little space away. We usually set a table under the drop down so when doing dishes, they can sit there an air dry.

Not my camper (my photo), but it's identical to this:

I wasn't looking for a outside kitchen, new trailer came with it. Now that I have it I use it all the time. My awning does cover it which I would prefer. I also have the grill mounted on the back of the trailer. it works off the trailer LP tanks. this is very handy also.

I'd rather have the storage space myself. don't want a gas grill, want charcoal outside. sink, another place to winterize, etc. refrigerator would be handy for liquid refreshments but a cooler would be just as good.
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As others mentioned - I think it is all in how you use it. We do about 95% of our cooking on the grill when we are camping. We have what would likely be considered a 'full' outdoor kitchen (sink, swing-out double cooktop, microwave, tall dorm fridge, etc...). We would not want it any other way and don't miss the storage. If our trailer were smaller, however (ours is 35'), or if we tended to cook inside and/or not cook at the trailer, it would be a waste.

We don't have an outdoor kitchen. We do most of our cooking outdoors but it's about 95% on the Bar-B-Que. We have a 2 burner coleman propane stove but we rarely use it; only use it for boiling a pot of water for noodles or something. We have a large electric frying pan and a elec griddle also that we use; mostly for a large batch of scrambled eggs and pancakes. A 2 burner stove wouldn't be big enough for what we are cooking.

I don't have the need for an outside kitchen but if you find that you are using a 2 burner stove and sink outside regularly, than it would probably be useful to you. But you got to decide that for yourself. It's like everything, a tradeoff, you give up space inside for the outside kitchen, do what works for you.

I did not have an outdoor kitchen in my "have to's" when scoping out our new fifth wheel, but the one we found had one, so I took it.

I will NEVER be able to have another RV without an outdoor kitchen. We use it all the time. Ours has a refrigerator, about 30" tall, two large cabinets, a small sink with hot/cold water and two electrical plugs. DH's coffee pot resides there along with our grill accessories and oven mitts. I installed cup hooks to hang them from under the cabinet. We have a one-burner butane burner that also resides there until we set up camp. We have the grill that swings around from the bumper of the fifth wheel. Neither of these are located under the awning and we have not had a problem with it, at least, so far.

The refrigerator is used for all of our drinks, sodas, waters, etc. Our food stuffs are kept inside the RV due to animal activity in many of the places that we camp. It is opened in the morning and closed before we go to bed or if we leave the campground.

The cabinets contain paper plates, cups, bowls, etc. along with plastic silverware, salt/pepper grinders and other prep equipment.

darsben1 wrote:
Are you full timing or weekend/vacationtype?
It does make a difference

Weekend/vacation.

Swell1 wrote:
I wasn't looking for a outside kitchen, new trailer came with it. Now that I have it I use it all the time. My awning does cover it which I would prefer. I also have the grill mounted on the back of the trailer. it works off the trailer LP tanks. this is very handy also.

Does the grill stay on the bumper during transport? I've never seen one in person but am curious.