Kitchen Kit/Chuck Box
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john101477
Photographer in the Wild
hate to see this beautiful thread turn into a commercial.... love many of the hand built kitchen setups. The Kanz is cool to but at $600 I will most definitely pass.
Smksignals
Explorer
ditto. This has been one of my favorite threads since joining ...
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Corey
OverCamping Specialist
Oh yeah, the wood one is very nice.
The wood ones have more class IMO.
But for one you can buy off the shelf, the alloy one looks very nice too.
There are a lot of nice home built ones in this thread.
Wyowanderer
Explorer
X2.
Really nice, but I doubt it'd suffice for me. I'd need more room.
Wonder where it's made- China?
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
One of the last hand built ones on here is superb craftsmanship. I can kind of see where I would like a different internal design but the build itself is amazing. Having done a lot of finish carpentry and owning some cool wooded "tool" chests the work thast. Goes into a well thought out kitchen like this is unbeatable and that's what will be passed down generaltion to generation not something bought and held together with rivets. Like I said before want to make money design something that hundreds of others have made add some expo style bling and triple the cost to build.
Stumpalump
Expedition Leader
Home made stuff is very cool but sometimes a small company hit's one out of the park. Just because he sells them he still has to source material, plan, build, promote, invest time and money, then bring to market. Hats off to Kanz for doing it all! I hope he sells a million and brings to market more good looking well made stuff that will get handed down for a long time.
datoy
Adventurer
I asked him about the production and it sounded to my like a US made product. He is farming the fabrication of the components out to local companies. What I hear is US Made. Yea!!!
Wyowanderer
Explorer
Not entirely. It's assembled out of USA and imported parts.
Still, they're beautiful boxes, and worth the money. I wish they sold a larger one, that's all.
Still, they're beautiful boxes, and worth the money. I wish they sold a larger one, that's all.
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Deleted member 9101
Guest
Mine is small enough to go right on the back of my motorcycle......
The Pelican case has a drain installed in the bottom to double as a sink.....
Inside the box are:
Two gas stoves
Full set of pots and pans (Titanium)
Stainless Steel coffee percolator
Full set of utensils
Eggs
Small cooler
Fuel Bottle
Plates, forks, knives and spoons for two
Two coffee cups
Towels
Condiment box
We cook some pretty amazing gourmet dinners out of that box!
I am soooooo stealing your set up
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
Thats actually pretty cool. I couldn't put my stoves in it but it would make for a great way to separate my food from my pots pans and other utensiles. Probably be a lot more space saving than my monster dry box that holds it all. It is one of the old action packers with the hinged lid and lock. it is very large maybe 3.5ft + and maybe 20in across. when packed correct it holds a ton of stuff but it is also very heavy at that point. I think if i got some of those bundu boxes i could hold a lot more, be more organized, and it would be lighter on my back since i have to carry everything lol.
coydogsf
Adventurer
Me too, me too! I wanna show off mine!
Simple kitchen set up for the back of an Xterra. Storage is built around an Engel17, 2 Action Packers (one with two Colemen Exponent 440's, pots, pans, plates, etc and the other with food), and some pull out silverware trays. Drop down table is 1/2" ply laminated with 16 gauge stainless and trimmed with aluminum U channel. Nice that we can pull out the Action Packers so we have access to their contents and use their "cubbies" for deeper counter space. MSR dromedary bag with a spray nozzle douses the side of the truck at times but gets the job done.
Next step is adding another drop down table on a swingout Schrockworks rear tire carrier I just installed.
Simple kitchen set up for the back of an Xterra. Storage is built around an Engel17, 2 Action Packers (one with two Colemen Exponent 440's, pots, pans, plates, etc and the other with food), and some pull out silverware trays. Drop down table is 1/2" ply laminated with 16 gauge stainless and trimmed with aluminum U channel. Nice that we can pull out the Action Packers so we have access to their contents and use their "cubbies" for deeper counter space. MSR dromedary bag with a spray nozzle douses the side of the truck at times but gets the job done.
Next step is adding another drop down table on a swingout Schrockworks rear tire carrier I just installed.
Thanks to all!
Longtime lurker finally offering long overdue THANKS!
I'm changing my camping gear setup now that I have kids. A bottle of tequila and sleeping face down anywhere apparently won't pass now that I'm a dad. So after reading for days on here I went looking for a Campmate Organizer Kitchen. Difficult to find is correct. Still, persistence (too stupid to know when to quit) finally paid off and I found one in Michigan (I'm in So Cal) on a CL there and near a very close friend. It was from a couple who camped once and didn't like it. It's fully stocked too with stainless plates and everything (Not sure what the everything part means) . Plus it comes with a porta potty (my kids are girls so they don't seem to instinctually take to marking their territory...) and some more. All for $160 but I gotta ship it out here.
And the following morning I awoke to go for a run and saw my new neighbors across the street were downsizing after their recent move-in. On the curb with an old bed and washing machine was a nice handmade wood chuck box they'd used for years. So I offered a couple bottles of wine for it and they said it's free.
Anyway, thanks for all the help! Now I'm looking for a Scout Traveler for some offroad trips that our dually can't or shouldn't try. not the best vehicle ever but I had a great uncle who used to have a place in Colorado and I got great memories of driving around the Rockies with him.
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Longtime lurker finally offering long overdue THANKS!
I'm changing my camping gear setup now that I have kids. A bottle of tequila and sleeping face down anywhere apparently won't pass now that I'm a dad. So after reading for days on here I went looking for a Campmate Organizer Kitchen. Difficult to find is correct. Still, persistence (too stupid to know when to quit) finally paid off and I found one in Michigan (I'm in So Cal) on a CL there and near a very close friend. It was from a couple who camped once and didn't like it. It's fully stocked too with stainless plates and everything (Not sure what the everything part means) . Plus it comes with a porta potty (my kids are girls so they don't seem to instinctually take to marking their territory...) and some more. All for $160 but I gotta ship it out here.
And the following morning I awoke to go for a run and saw my new neighbors across the street were downsizing after their recent move-in. On the curb with an old bed and washing machine was a nice handmade wood chuck box they'd used for years. So I offered a couple bottles of wine for it and they said it's free.
Anyway, thanks for all the help! Now I'm looking for a Scout Traveler for some offroad trips that our dually can't or shouldn't try. not the best vehicle ever but I had a great uncle who used to have a place in Colorado and I got great memories of driving around the Rockies with him.
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I'll have to remember to snap some photos of mine next time it is out.
They seem to have vanished into thin air. Ratpuke bought mine from SIR just before they got bought by Cabella's
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