What kitchen / food appliances do you bring?

[2Susan]

I'm curious what kitchen/food related appliances or gadgets you bring along.

The kitchen aid mixer (with the pasta attachment) was just mentioned in another thread and I got to wondering what other appliances folks use while camping.

I have a blender (I thought smoothies would be satisfying and easy) which so far we've used to make watermelon which wouldn't fit into the fridge into juice which would fit) a popcorn popper, and the ubiquitious drip coffee pot.

What do you bring? What do you want to bring? What great recipe / trick makes hauling the appliance completely worth the weight?

[grhodes50]

Most recently, a toaster oven. Does just as good or better than the gas oven and is alot easier to use.

We still take the 2 sllice toaster we've had since our pop up days, coffee maker and our deep fryer for those fresh caught crappies and jalapeño hush puppies....... mmm-mmm!

[2Susan]

Originally Posted by grhodes50

We still take the 2 sllice toaster we've had since our pop up days, coffee maker and our deep fryer for those fresh caught crappies and jalapeño hush puppies....... mmm-mmm!

I was thinking of bringing the fryer but how do you store the fat securely?

I'm thinking that if we have a site with power it makes sense to use electricity rather than LP.

[grhodes50]

We bring an empty 64 oz container and when the oil has cooled, we poor it in the container using a funnel. I remember seeing at Lowe's a battery operated pump with filter to pump the oil back into it's container for future use. It was located near the large propane fish/turkey friers and peanut oil. Next time I go to Lowe's I may look for that again.

I have a large container with wheels that I purchased at wally world last year that I store the oil, small charcoal grill, charcoal, charcoal fluid and pecan wood chips in. I can load it in back of the truck and what I really like about it, it slides under the trailer with about 1" clearence. Keeps the racoons from getting into it at night.

[ladywendolyn]

I bring a toaster oven, a small size crock pot and a regular toaster. I am thinking of maybe bringing my magic bullet blender this summer so I can make smoothies.

[jamesp]

We carry a big electric griddle for cooking breakfast. It works great on a small table outside under the awning. Keeps the bacon smell out of the trailer.

[milzat]

Coffee maker.
Electric griddle.
Rice Cooker.
Crock Pot.
Small Vegetable Slicer.

[tmu1967]

Coffee pot, 2 slice toaster, 2 qt crockpot, electric griddle.

[ilovecamping]

Coffee maker, small crockpot, electric skillet and two slice toaster.
I am thinking of adding a small toaster oven but don't think we would use it enough. We use the coffee maker and toaster all the time but the electric skillet and crockpot aren't used often.

[Mr.B]

Crock Pot - Used almost every trip, some great recipes are on the cooking section of this forum. Pot Roast and Lasagna are two.
4 slice toaster
Stand Blender (frozen drinks)
Hand blender (occassional use)
2 Burner propane camp stove
Coleman 2 burner propane grill
We do 99% of our cooking outside or crockpot! Seldom use the fiver oven and stove top.

[cfsoistman]

Coffee Maker (couldn't survive without it), Toaster and occasionally the smoothie / blender. I usually cook the bacon at home and place in a zip-lock bag. I just place it in the microwave on a paper plate covered with a paper towel for about 20 seconds and it's ready and the best part is the grease is left at home. We keep the Weber Baby-Q in the storage bin for cooking outdoors.

[SaskCampers]

Tassimo hot beverage machine for when we are are shore power and a regular Coffee maker for when we are running off the generator, 2 slice toaster and thats it. We do 90% of of cooking on a Coleman Roadtrip Grill. We never used the oven once in our old TT.

[gregm59]

Electric Griddle and camp stove. Coffee maker and coffee grinder. Blender, no smoothies, but adult beverages. We try to do most of our cooking outside so between the griddle, camp stove and charcoal grill, we're covered!

[BENTE]

we carry a small big green egg,

keruig one cup coffee maker (wife will die without it)

crock pot (we have not used)

we also bought one of those food processer/blender combos

electric skillett

a euro pro convection oven (for when my wife and kids go without me they can do alot of frozen breaded chicken in there without much effort)

that is about it

[akcampr]

Weber BBQ, colemand camp stove, 2 aluminum dutch ovens, drip coffee maker, ice maker. We do most of our cooking outside in the summer.

[2Susan]

Originally Posted by akcampr

Weber BBQ, colemand camp stove, 2 aluminum dutch ovens, drip coffee maker, ice maker. We do most of our cooking outside in the summer.

That's interesting. A separate ice maker. I realized on the last trip that making smoothies without ice is difficult and never ventured to the camp store to buy ice. Is this a huge thing? Heavy?

I was intending to make ice at home this next weekend and bring it in a cooler. But this might be something to consider. (which reminds me to empty the icemaker into a bin in the deep freeze and start some more).

[kelzo]

Electric Griddle is great for pancakes, quesadillas, grilled sandwiches, bacon and eggs, etc. I bring along a coffee maker for when we are camping with friends. For dry camping we have a coffee press- works great, just wish it was a little bigger...
We also pre-cook the bacon at home and throw it in the freezer so we can take out what we need a little at a time-easier and no smell or grease.

[MrT]

Electric frying pan
Electric griddle
Coffee maker
Toaster
Small George Foreman
(debating) Crock pot
Hand Electric mixer

[tentcamper1]

coffee maker and charcoal grill. I'm getting a laugh at this post because my wife was kidding around how she "roughs it" with a lower wattage micro and has to watch the water consumption!

[revrnd]

Originally Posted by grhodes50

and our deep fryer for those fresh caught crappies and jalapeño hush puppies....... mmm-mmm!

Sounds like Grandpa Jones on Hee Haw LOL

I don't know about the crappies, but I'll take an order of the hush puppies.

Portable BBQ after poor results w/ RVQ that came w/ the popup I had. Large pot for making chili. May take a toaster on our next trip.