Kitchen Gadgets Ideal for RVs
Since moving into our bus, we’ve been reacquainting ourselves with the joys of kitchen gadgets. In our previous super tiny trailers, we didn’t have much room for such things.
With a little bit more space, we’ve been enjoying picking things out that match our lifestyle and serve meaningful functions in our household.
All of the below items are products we’ve purchased and are loving. And we consider them all ideal for RVing life – whether it be for how they save power, maximize storage space or just add to our mobile joy!
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So we now present you the kitchen gadgets we love that you, or the RVer in your life, might like to add to a holiday wish list.
And oh heck, they’ll probably all work in stationary homes too.
Cooking & Food Prep
Mr. Induction Cooktop
Using a magnetic field with ferromagnetic cookware, induction cooking gets food up to heat quickly and efficiently with no heat loss. Perfect for small spaces like RVs, and geeky-fun to explain! We’ve not used our propane stovetop since getting one.
Ninja Warrior Handheld Blender
We love smoothies, soups, salsa, guacamole, fruity tropical drinks, etc. This immersion blender & food processor combo is perfect for us! Blends ice to smoothie consistently almost instantly, and is easy to break down and store. Amazing!
O-Grill 3000 Portable Gas BBQ Grill
We love our portable propane grill! It folds up nicely to stow away, it’s futuristically cute looking, big enough to cook for 4 and matches our bus! It comes in all sorts of colors too.
Zojirushi NHS-10 6-Cup Rice Cooker/Steamer
This unit not only makes perfect rice every time, but we use it as a slow cooker & steamer too. We love making meals in it – a bit of uncooked rice, can of black beans, can of Ro-tel, and yum!
Kitchen Gadgets
Fusionbrands Ice Orb
This vertical ice cube tray is a perfect solution for RV freezers! Water squishes into the trays, and you can store already made cubes in the interior. And when underway, no splashing!
Spice Stack
Perfect solution for the cabinets in our bus for organizing spices. Fits perfectly in our overhead cabinet for easy access. The shelving keeps the spices safe and non-rolling while we’re underway.
Vacu Vin Easy Stack
This is a perfect accessory for smaller than average RV refrigerators where you might not have shelves tall enough to store bottle upright. We use this for organizing beer bottles and cans.
Beverages
Cork Pops Wine Bottle Opener
This wine bottle opener is as easy as cut, poke and pop! Never been quicker or easier to get to our vino and we’re now buying more bottled wine than boxed just because it’s so much fun!
GoVino Shatterproof Wine Glasses
These shatterproof, re-usable, plastic wine glasses let us feel all sophisticated-like even when drinking our boxed wine, without risking broken glass. Perfect for RV & outdoor life!
SodaStream Soda Maker
We love our soda maker for making our own fizzy water. Perfect for RVs – needs no power, saves money and saves storage space for big bottles. And now that Bed, Bath & Beyond carries the carburetors & soda mixes, so much easier to restock as we tra
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Wow, my Amazon Wish List is getting bigger now! That Ninja blender and Induction Cooktop look especially neat. I’m a SodaStream addict too and posted it as one of my RVing “Favorite Things” a few weeks ago. One of my other favorite kitchen items is my $7 Crock Pot. Not high-tech at all, but great to fill the rig on a cold winter day with smells of a delicious dinner cookin’!
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We are absolutely loving the induction cooktop. Not only is it quicker to cook … we get more control over temperature changes, and it adds no heat to the interior of the coach (great in the summer!).
Here’s a video we & some friends did comparing an induction cooktop to a regular electric cook-top:
The induction cooktop is cool. I saw the video early of the cook off. That was neat too. Four adults watching water boil and getting a kick out of it…
Davy
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Yup.. us geeks are strange that way
Try this in your rice cooker:
Hoppin’ John
1 can black eyed peas (rinsed)
1 can Rotel (drained slightly)
1/2 cup rice
1-1/2 cups water
4 veggie sausage links, cooked and crumbled
1 Tbsp Tony Chachere’s Cajun Seasoning (or to taste)
1 each tsp garlic powder and onion powder
1/2 tsp each hot sauce and celery flakes (optional)
Put rice in the bottom of cooker and cover with the water. Set rice cooker and walk away. About half way through the rice cooking time, dump in everything else and stir well to combine. Serves 4-6.
the plasic glass is the most practical way to bring wine glasses with you on a trip. they always get lost or brake!
its also good to use them indoor, when there is hyperactive children around you
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Hah.. if we have hyperactive kids around us, we’re totally in the wrong place.
I’m going to miss having a rice cooker when I go RVing. Sadly it belongs to the roommate – not that I’ll have much room anyway since I’ll be in one of those tiny trailers.
With the SodaStream what brand of soda mixes do you like? I had a home made soda at a party once and the flavor was pretty bad, it was suppose to be cola, had a weird aftertaste. I’m not sure what the brand had been but I’m thinking they’re not all created equal.
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We’ve tried out a few of the SodaStream brand soda mixes.. but we’re honestly not much of soda people. We drink it straight up or with a little bit of fruit juice. But we do like their energy drink, and use that quite a bit.
If we had stayed in the Oliver, we would have made room for a rice cooker. When we had ours built – we left out the microwave to get extra storage. We also carried a SodaStream in the trailer too
You’ll be amazed with how much space a Casita will give you, they’re really well designed.
Have you tried Thermos Shuttle Chef? They are quite expensive here in Aussie and no good if you don’t like meals consisting of high levels of liquid – eg stews, curries etc but after five mins on the stove top the food cooks in its own heat over 5-8 hours so effectively during the day if you’re on the road. A potential saving on gas or other fuels. X
Great list of gadgets! One that I would definitely suggest is our Progressive Collapsible Tupperware. These things are genius: http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-International-Collapsible-Prep-White/dp/B001ESAIIQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322395501&sr=8-1
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Interesting list. I think we cook and eat differently. One thing I abandoned when I went on the road was a small rice cooker, even if I wind up buying another there are other things I’ll regret loosing more. One thing that might sound good until you see it is colapsable measuring cups — they don’t stack, so use more room than a stack of cheap measuring cups.
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When I first hit the road, I too gave up my rice cooker… and really hadn’t give it much thought. When we were in the USVI over this past winter tho, we ran out of propane for our stove and it took weeks to get re-filled… leaving us with no way to heat food up. But I was able to Prime over a small rice-cooker on Amazon as an alternative way to cook. It was a nice reminder of just how versatile they are. We’ve used them for making soups, steaming veggies, sautéing potatoes & onions, etc.
Huh, measuring cups. Haven’t had a set of those in years. I honestly haven’t needed to measure anything, I cook by intuition
Our kitchen is primarily vegetarian and gluten-free, so our eating/cooking style is not exactly what is considered ‘normal’.
Forgot to comment on this post. Lots of EXCELLENT christmas ideas here. Another kitchen gadget we love (altho’ it’s more of an old-time thing) is the Wok. Use it for everything from soups to curries.
Nina
I love cooking in a wok too! I need to remember to add an induction capable one to my own holiday wish list! They are so incredibly versatile.
One thing I can’t live without is my Aeropress coffee maker. Perfect for making just a cup or 2 at a time. I like it so much better than a French Press
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