Outdoor Cooking

[Magnolia Tom]

I do all the cooking on a camp chef. It’s big and heavy. So are the add ons but there’s nothing that can cook like it. Each burner is 30k BTU!!! I have the pro griddle, pizza oven and grill box.

[RavenBC]

We do most of our camp cooking outside, our set up this year will be with a Weber jumbo joe, and a camp chef stove. We also have a full cast iron set up including a Dutch oven, griddle, and depending on the trip will bring my UDS (50 gallon drum) smoker.

[spoon059]

When we bought our 2015 29QBS I thought the outdoor kitchen was a scam. I had plans to remove everything and use it as a storage area. Before we stripped everything out, we decided to use it to cook breakfast outside one trip. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. Rather than heating up the inside, introducing humidity and crouching down to see the kids playing outside we were outside with the kids and our friends.

We rarely, if ever, cook inside now. Between the outdoor fridge and cooktop, we bring a little Weber Q grill. A friend has a spit to mount over the fire for cooking whole chickens. Father in law has a little Blackstone too. If we can't figure out how to cook it with those options, we don't eat it!

[bdreinv]

Weber Q!

[Witt74]

We do most of our cooking outside. Bought a Brinkman dual burner grill form Home Depot, converted it to run on the trailer's propane. Added an adjustable grill table from Walmart and our old Coleman kitchen that's leftover from our tent days. Set up as DW like, pretty much everything in reach.

[Jflyboym]

I use a similar setup to Witt74. A Coleman camp kitchen. I have a couple of camp ovens and a small Webber charcoal grill. It works pretty well for prepping/cooking food. A somewhat related word of caution to witt74....

Make sure you don't lean your camp kitchen against the side of the TT where the awning goes up and down. Last year in a storm I lowered my awning and it caught the edge of the camp kitchen and bent my awning arm like a McDonald's arch! The door was blocking my view if the arm as I brought it in. Not a good night.

[DNelson]

I am thinking I might get heckled a little but we use a little of the 'old' a little of the 'new' and maybe a little of the weird.

We like smoked things but didn't want to pack a big smoker. So, I made a smoke generator and drilled a hole in our propane grill to mount it. When we want a smoke flavor I put the meat on the grill and fire up the smoke generator for about an hour without starting the grill. After that if we have electricity we generally finish steaks/chops, roasts, ribs, etc using Sous Vide to insure things are done to our preferred medium rare. For a nice bark we use a weed burner...yes, a weed burner. I have to say the weed burner does draw the attention of our camping neighbors! If you are wondering about Sous Vide and using a week burner take a look at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLS3P1OLxA

If we don't Sous Vide we use the propane grill.

We also minimize cooking inside so also use a NuWave oven and induction cooktop. The induction cooktop and a cast iron frying pan sure makes some great blackened fish!

[Octopus Prime]

On our last few trips, I just made breakfast on the kitchen stove.

On our last trip, we used our new grill that sits on a bumper arm. We like the location.
Our TT doesn't have a dedicated outdoor kitchen, so we make our own.

We purchased a griddle to go on top of the grill to make breakfast outside. We plan to try it out on our next trip.

We also have a slow cooker.
It's nice to swim and play all day, then return to the camper for a hot meal that is ready.

[jloco]

No outside kitchen, we keep a weber grill and a blackstone griddle on hand.

[troutcamper]

percolator we love our good coffee, weber smokey joe 14", blackstone 17"
griddle, coleman camp stove, and a crock pot. thinking about getting a cast iron ditch oven just cause I like to try different things.
Troutcamper

[Yamerhammer]

Originally Posted by skylarkva

It's big, it's heavy, but I absolutely LOVE my Camp Chef stove. We have a 3 burner that I picked up at Costco last spring, and I put a quick connect hose on it to tie into the trailer's propane supply. Its among the first things I set up at camp, one of the last things that gets put away. I think I've only used the stovetop inside the trailer once to heat water for coffee. Otherwise- it's the Camp Chef all the way!

X2 I have also bought a 3 burner camp chef for the house. I use it to cook breakfast.

[TWP723]

Originally Posted by Plowtoy

Love my 36" Blackstone Griddle (check out more pics of it in the campfire cooking section of this forum www.jaycoowners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18027 )

I've got the same grill. It's awesome once it's seasoned.

[Atlee]

I have a Coleman propane Camp Stove, a Coleman look a like Camp Grill plus an electric grill

[michael.g]

We have a Weber Q 1200 and a Char Griller 2121 Charcoal Grill/Smoker. We use the Q when grilling for ourselves and the Char Griller when cooking for a crowd or smoking ribs, butts, etc. We do most of our cooking outside.

-Michael

[TxTwoSome]

We never cook inside.

We use an electric frying pan and griddle.

And for a barbeque pit we use the electric George Forman Grill.

We also have a propane stove we bought 4 years ago but it has never been out of the box.

[Witt74]

Originally Posted by Jflyboym

I use a similar setup to Witt74. A Coleman camp kitchen. I have a couple of camp ovens and a small Webber charcoal grill. It works pretty well for prepping/cooking food. A somewhat related word of caution to witt74....

Make sure you don't lean your camp kitchen against the side of the TT where the awning goes up and down. Last year in a storm I lowered my awning and it caught the edge of the camp kitchen and bent my awning arm like a McDonald's arch! The door was blocking my view if the arm as I brought it in. Not a good night.

Thanks for the warning. After taking those photos, I realized how close it was to the awing arm. Make sure to keep it away now.
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[01tundra]

We're now using our plow disk grill as the primary source of cooking, also use it often at home.

We can cook pretty much anything on it and with a 65,000 btu burner it resists the wind really good. Typically have to cook an the lowest setting possible......found that out the hard way first time cooking Italian sausages on it.

[norty1]

Originally Posted by 01tundra

We're now using our plow disk grill as the primary source of cooking, also use it often at home.

We can cook pretty much anything on it and with a 65,000 btu burner it resists the wind really good. Typically have to cook an the lowest setting possible......found that out the hard way first time cooking Italian sausages on[/

That looks like a redneck WOK. I can see how versatile it could be.

[Magnolia Tom]

Originally Posted by 01tundra

We're now using our plow disk grill as the primary source of cooking, also use it often at home.



We can cook pretty much anything on it and with a 65,000 btu burner it resists the wind really good. Typically have to cook an the lowest setting possible......found that out the hard way first time cooking Italian sausages on it.

Was yours made or did you buy it ready made?
In south texas, discados (plow discs) are used a lot and are all hand made.

Yours looks good either way

[01tundra]

Originally Posted by Magnolia Tom

Was yours made or did you buy it ready made?
In south texas, discados (plow discs) are used a lot and are all hand made.

Yours looks good either way

Actually bought the disk and burner from South West Disk.

I'll likely make the next disk myself if I decide to get another size.