After years of carting kitchen kit in boxes, and then taking time to build the kitchen/cooker stand and putting all that stuff in it, this year I took Merry Terrier's advice and got a plastic drawer unit. All the kitchen kits goes in it, it is tall enough for the cooker to go on, it is dead easy to find waht you need and there is no faff.
It stays packed all year so it goes from house to car to tent and back without any pratting around with building temporary tent furniture!
Hi Foggers
I have been considering this set up for my cooker. We have ditched the kitchen stand which was a pain to put together and now use an aluminium umbrella type table with a crate underneath it. I considered a plastic drawer set but wondered if the heat from the cooker being used on top would melt it. Do you use some kind of heat resistant surface between the cooker and the top of the drawers.
Always looking for ways to streamline our camping gear and ditch stuff. With this setup we could replace a table and crate with the plastic drawers. The kitchen stuff would be more organised and no table to put together.
After years of carting kitchen kit in boxes, and then taking time to build the kitchen/cooker stand and putting all that stuff in it, this year I took Merry Terrier's advice and got a plastic drawer unit. All the kitchen kits goes in it, it is tall enough for the cooker to go on, it is dead easy to find waht you need and there is no faff.
It stays packed all year so it goes from house to car to tent and back without any pratting around with building temporary tent furniture!
Sounds like a good idea Foggers, we always cook all our meals on site so the kitchen & storage for cooking equipment is very important to us. Where would we get one of these plastic drawer units from?
We do tend to carry a lot of excess baggage so we certainly need to cut back & work out what we need & what we don't. We've taken stuff on holiday with us for years but now we've gone from a caravan to a tent, we want to only take what we need. It looks like we have a stack of stuff to get rid of.
Sorry to keep asking questions but this forum is a wealth of much needed information. To have an EHU in our new tent, can I convert our caravan EHU lead by putting one of those multiple sockets on the tent end or can I buy a proper end with sockets to go on our lead? We've got two leads here & it sees a waste if I have to go & buy a comlete lead. Obviously safety is most important but it also depends on the difference in price.
Quote: Originally posted by Basilbrush on 29/9/2008
To have an EHU in our new tent, can I convert our caravan EHU lead by putting one of those multiple sockets on the tent end
Quote: Originally posted by Basilbrush on 29/9/2008
To have an EHU in our new tent, can I convert our caravan EHU lead by putting one of those multiple sockets on the tent end
No, you need one with an integral RCD and MCB.
Great stuff Bernie, I appreciate that & I'll get a proper one asap.
THIS is the drawer set from Argos, and we used a thin metal windshield as a heat protective surface on top, to stand the cooker on, with a thin plastic chopping board beneath the metal, so that the metal acted as heat sink and the plastic board was insulation too.
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