Cooking outside, whether it’s on a small camping stove, a big grill, a BBQ, or over a campfire, is something that goes hand-in-hand with camping and RVing. Oh, and how could we forget those deluxe outdoor kitchens some RVs have these days?
How often do you cook outside? Every night? Once a week? A few times a year? Never? After you vote in today’s poll, tell us how and what you usually cook outside. Come on, go ahead and make us hungry (we’re already hungry so it won’t be hard!).
The RVtravel.com Sunday newsletter is completely free and filled with great RV information, advice, and news written by RV experts, delivered right to your inbox every Saturday and Sunday morning. We will never sell your information and you won't ever get SPAM from us. When you subscribe, you'll get three checklists that every RVer should have as a thank you!
Our most popular articles this week:
GOOD DEAL!
Remote control, portable camping fan with light. 20000mAh rechargeable battery and dual USB ports. 40% off at Amazon. Now $30. (It’s Amazon’s Choice in this category.)
HEY! COULD YOU DO US A FAVOR? Would you mind forwarding this newsletter or article to another RVer? If you enjoy it (and if you learn from it), chances are they will too! Thanks so much, we really appreciate it!
Weather permitting (lack of high wind and/or driving rain) we cook every meal (other than morning coffee) either on a campfire or a propane grill or stove. Our meal planning is based on doing just this. Most times when we can’t cook outside, we go out to eat.
Excluding bad weather outside and that’s everything from baking-grilling-frying-boiling. And it just taste better.
There is just something about cooking over an open fire that makes things taste better. Even frying potatoes in a cast iron skillet or a stew in a dutch oven is better!
We used to cook at least one meal a day outside, but as the years go by it gets to be more trouble than it is worth.
At home, 5-6 nights a week year round. My gas grill is on the deck just outside the kitchen door. Camping, have a gas grill and a griddle. Bought a new camper last year. Haven’t cooked inside yet (stove does work).
We cook outside more often at our sticks and bricks than on the road. At home we have a gas grill on the deck, ready to go at any time. When traveling it is more work to get out and set up a grill. The last time we grilled out this winter, we didn’t bring the grill back in soon enough. A neighborhood cat jumped up on the table holding our electric grill. A crash and a yowl later, we have a broken grill. Oops. Off to a thrift store to find a new-to-us electric grill.
On many trips, we do a good share of our cooking outside, on our classic white gas Coleman camp stove. I also bake on the Coleman with the Omnia (also inside with it). In 30+ years, we’ve never had a wood campfire. We tried a charcoal grill on a few trips, but it really never earned the space it took to tote it and the charcoal. Add in the fact that there is often a fire ban when we go camping, and it just wasn’t worth it.
When camping, we used to cook over a campfire all the time, but that has changed. The reason isn’t because of the work involved but the increasing “fire bans” we keep encountering. Add to that the outrageous price for firewood and not being allowed to collect and burn dead stuff from the woods. I’m in my 70s and my dad taught me how to cook over/in a fire. I have cast Iron cookware including a “real” dutch oven I can bake in. Stuff taste better cooked on a wood fire.
When, and/or where allowed, rib eyes and salmon on my mini weber charcoal grill at least once a week while RV camping.
At home, once or twice a month various meats with any variety of my fresh/ frozen fish from my yearly deep sea fishing trips…
I remember staying at a rustic motel in New Mexico once where the room had a fire pit in a little courtyard right outside the door. “We’ll be happy to come by and build your fire at dusk and we always come by at 11 to put the fires out,” the clerk said at check-in. No RV park has ever made me that offer. I’m not great at building fires and I couldn’t possibly stay up until they go out. So no campfires for me for cooking dinner or for just enjoying the ambiance. I wish there were.
We find it easiest to cook meals outside on our BBQ, weather permitting. We bbq whatever meat or fish is on the day’s menu, veggies are placed on aluminum foil then we often warm dinner rolls beside the evenings meat entree. When camping with friends we have used the bbq to heat up prepared Costco enchiladas or lasagna’s many times. Breakfast is normally cooked in the microwave. Eggs are easily prepared in the microwave, biscuits can be baked using the convection mode.
Not much anymore DH prefers going out to eat We compromise-eat lunch at a restaurant-much cheaper than dinner, have light breakfast and dinner in LilSnoozy. When I first bought it I got a lot of special small appliances & cookware Haven’t used of them besides the 1.5 l pressure cooker