What's In My Travel Kitchen? Hotel Cooking, Travel Cooking, Car Cooking
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- I've found that having a travel kitchen really helps when traveling because it puts me in control of my food and makes it much easier to eat healthy. It's also much cheaper than having to buy meals. Let's take a look at what it is my travel kitchen right now.
Roadpro Silver Aluminum Briefcase - amzn.to/42fElHL
Dash Mini Griddle - amzn.to/2YHhM05
Dash Mini Waffle Maker - amzn.to/2LNjFl0
Mini Silicone Utensils - amzn.to/3bR9J7A
#travel #kitchen #cooking
Roadpro Silver Aluminum Briefcase - amzn.to/42fElHL
Dash Mini Griddle - amzn.to/2YHhM05
Dash Mini Waffle Maker - amzn.to/2LNjFl0
Mini Silicone Utensils - amzn.to/3bR9J7A
For 10 years before I retired, I traveled overnight once a week. I had a variety of travel kitchens but finally settled on a 7" mini electric fry pan. I had everything to cook with in a soft-sided cooler (not giant), so everything was small-sized or collapsable. The kitchen worked well, and I could make almost anything in it. On family road trips, I carried an induction burner and a pot that was wok-like and could cook anything. I now have a built-out van with a lot of solar, so I cook mainly with an induction burner, a small electric pressure cooker, and a 12-volt rice cooker. I can even bake using a 12-volt RoadPro. I love innovative kitchen set-ups.
Very cool!
I'm also in a van. Your setup sounds great! the lot of solar setup really helps. I'm looking to upgrade my batteries
I love how niche this channel is, and I love how we're all here for you making a briefcase kitchen 😂👍💯
thanks for watching!
My travel kitchen: Electric griddle, small camping skillet and saucepan, one cup coffeemaker, small toaster oven, small mixing bowls, some spices, small cutting board & knives, cutlery and sturdy paper plates. The hotels always had a frig.
Great idea, especially the metal briefcase! I'd tuck a few basic herbs, spices, s&p in too. Plus those instant coffee stick packets (and/or tea bags) ☕
I'm a retiree who's living overseas in multiple countries.
I have several "travel kitchens" in 3 countries...México, Colombia and the United States.
My top 3 travel kitchens are equipped as follows:
2 Misen 5 ply 10" skillets, stainless steel and original non-stick pans with Misen silicone lids.
1 Matfer Bourgeat 11-7/8" carbon steel pan (original version).
1 Hercules Cast Aluminum 4.3qt. Dutch oven.
2 Brandless 5 ply stainless steel sauce pans, 4qt. and 2qt.
1 portable induction cooktop...
...and 1 French press with a digital scale.
All my travel kitchens have a comprehensive set of knives, kitchen utensils, measuring cups/spoons, strainers, trivets, stainless steel mixing bowls, knife sharpener/honing rod, towels, etc.
All these items are packed inside a rolling duffel bag.
My permanent kitchen in the Colombian Andes has 12" Misen pans, 6.8qt. Hercules CA dutch oven, OXO 3.5qt. saucier and no carbon steel/cast iron skillets.
When I'm not living in México or Colombia...I'm taking a travel kitchen.
Yes, I pay for an extra bag and it gets a little more difficult as I grow older...but the ROI is immeasurable.
Having the power/knowledge to properly select/shop, prepare/prep/mise en place and cook your own food, as you see fit, is invaluable.
This is a skill set that has been denigrated, ridiculed and/or abandoned over the past few decades.
P.S. I attempt to prepare authentic Italian and French cuisine...and a few of my family's recipes.
Chao.
Retired Vietnam era veteran, ex Detroiter, Level 2 home cook (Epicurious), expatriate currently living in México, Colombia...and a few other places.
For about 7 years, when I was working in Georgia for the WIC program, I frequently was sent out of town for extended training conferences. I used to take a small cooler with an electric hot plate, a small saucepan, a bowl and plate, utensils, a knife in a sharpening sheath, and a plastic covered microwaveable mug. I was paid per diem for some meals, but it was more convenient at times to just cook in my hotel room. That was 2001 - 2007, before the Dash cooking pieces had been invented!
Metal breifcase to store your kitchen is genius!
That’s also a great kit for preppers to keep in their car if they have to evacuate rapidly due to fires, weather, etc. The pots with fold away handles are often found on camping cookware. I have a whole set in a small bag. I just bought a power station similar to yours that I would take along! Toss in a few cans of food food, a change of clothing and toiletries/medications, and go! Beautiful kit - thanks!
I love those mini dash machines . I got 3 of those for 6 bucks each . On our trips that’s what I used . We had blueberry pancakes eggs and sausages and it was the best vacation ever!
Put mini grill .... inside pie pan ....
to collect spillover, grease and protect under grill. Also easy to move hot mini. 😊
Love this kind of video helps me prepare in my car
I include an extension cord and use an electric fondue pot with my own lid. It’s very small but can cook real food. I also like my travel water kettle and mid size thermos.
Another tip: if you can bring your food up to boiling point, to slow cook your food wrap a pot up in every towel you have, and this will retain heat for several hours. In this way you can use your hot plate for something else while you have the other part slow cooking. This will work for cooking rice while you prepare your main dish or oatmeal or other things you tend to slow cook. If you're careful you can even wrap your food in a towel and then your bed cover, but maybe leave a do not disturb sign for housekeeping lol
I’m moving mine into my old metal camera case. Thanks for that great tip!!!
my go-to hurricane evacuation motel room kitchen equipment includes a 3 cup mini rice cooker. I can cook a small meal in it.
Every hurricane season I prepare small meals like soups and stews or compact dinners that I vac seal and freeze and keep in a cooler for traveling. I can dump one small meal for my husband and myself in the rice cooker to reheat, or cook small meals from 'scratch'. I bring mini silicone utensils and a few reusable small plates with plastic lids that can also double as storage containers.
Use a cooler to put your hotel kitchen in. This way you can unload everything and get ice from the ice machine and you'll have a cooler
I wish I would have thought of this traveling with my parents last year. This would have come in handy!
What an awesome travel kitchen! An aluminum briefcase - who would have thought!
I’m surprised no Dash Mini Rice cooker . We used to always take a hot pot for tea and coffee and instant oatmeal in our room. Seems like lots of motels now have free (included in your room rate) breakfasts.
Aside from my content making hobby and other hobbies that make up my content I may be getting a different role at my full time job that requires hotel stays and cooking for myself is a major need to stay healthy so this is great and super informative!
Glad it was helpful.
@@CounterCooking subbed to the channel. Looking forward to watching more. True life hack stuff you are putting up!
What a great idea
Very smart idea. We do similar but just put in one box for houseware and one box for food when on roadtrips. Kids are older now so not as picky eaters, just food allergies, so helps.
Same here if we travel by car. We have one with celiac, one has a seafood allergy. If we fly, I pack a skillet and spatula.
This is great! My basket looks the same 🤣‼
Impressive! The non-appliance portion of my travel kitchen is very similar to yours. I can make do with hotel coffee machines for a few days. For longer excursions, I will include a hot plate paired with a small fry pan.
Some Seasoning would easily fit inside of your collander, Looks Great!!! 😊
Impressive. Especially the suitcase itself.
Yo Dash really needs to make a mini air fryer! 😂😂😂
I just found your channel and LOVING IT!! Been watching all your videos ALL DAY!!! I bought all the dash products months ago.. the small and the larger ones and they have been sitting so I am now pulling them out to use thanks to you!!!!
Welcome
I love this!
Love this! Thanks for the great ideas!
Great idea! 👌
I have a knife bag that has a set of knives, some wooden spoons and some silicone spoons and spatulas, and a couple sets of silverware and a simple can opener. Then I have a large zippered bag that has a Dash mini airfryer with a couple small pans and a silicone liner stored inside it, a Dezin electric pan, a folding kettle, a Dash mini griddle, a Dash mini waffle maker, and the smallest sized George Foreman grill. I also have a very small colander, a couple of plastic bowls & plates, a couple of very small cutting boards in different colors so that I know which is for produce and which is for meat, a zippered waterproof bag that has a mini bottle of dish soap and a silicone dish scrubber, a plastic scraper for cleaning all the food off before washing, and a nylon scrubbing pad. I have a drying pad like that one you have (mine’s teal and came from Dollar Tree) and a similar dish towel and a couple of the silicone trivets and a pair of the small silicone mitts, and a heat proof silicone mat that I can roll out to protect the furniture and give myself a surface to prepare and cook my food. Occasionally I will bring other dishes, but these are generally the things I pack. I have a couple folding reusable shopping bags that I use for purchasing groceries once I get to my destination. For storage, I have some silicone reusable storage bags called Stashers. They are easy to carry because they are flat when empty. I have a few small silicone folding containers as well that fold up pretty small and flat. When I’m out on the road, I am usually gone for 2 weeks and having a lot of dietary restrictions, I need to be able to be in control of my food, so I bring a lot of things, but I can fit them all into my big multi-bag insulated zippered tote. I also keep a Eureka double burner camp stove, a couple of bottles of propane for that, and a Ridge Monkey pan (it’s from England and it’s got two pieces that hook together and you can use them as a pan with a lid or as two separate pans) in my trunk for cooking at picnic areas. I also have a couple gallons of water and a roll of paper towels in my car at all times. I’m a bit maximalist. 😂 I like to be prepared, though, and give myself a comfortable experience having my things with me.
Love the case! Great idea😊
What a great kit! Perfect for traveling.
My husband works for the airline so we fly quite a bit. The dash mini's go everywhere with us. I got small cases for them to travel in. I carry most of what you have here in my checked luggage. Love the way you have the briefcase. I might make one for the car! Thanks
Love Love Love This Video❤
I love your videos! thank you 😊
Thank you for this video. Rev
We always stay in a house or condo. For shorter trips we stay at z hotel with a kitchen. My son cannot have gluten and I bring a nonstick skillet and spatula to make eggs etc.
Very impressive travel kitchen! My favorite item to take on the road was my travel mini Keurig. Mini griddles are a great idea. And I thought they were just for making treats at home. Thanks for the ideas.
Great ideas!
This is amazing. Love it! Thanks for taking the time to share.
Love it....
Love it! Would be great to see your flight kit🌺🌻🌺
I don't have one but after watching this it's something that I need to start creating
Try a Reid set go machine its anything you can think of but I also have the mini waffle machine too I save my plastic liner from my bacon package for a mini chopping boards plus they will roll up and secure they with kids ponytail holders and I found mini utensils too plus mini wooden utensils and mini wooden chopping board that does double duty as hot pad and I carry a girl scout cook out and metal camp silverware inside cook out salt ,garlic& onion powders but I keep the 3 mixed in a Snapple homemade container then put into mini shakers and carry old time Turner and slurred spoon and the handle of the spoon can be used for turning nutmeg doughnuts. And a mini no stick pan that perfect for eggs omelets or hamburgers
I do travel with a mini kitchen for road trips- we have included a mini butane burner and collapsible water bottle and a set of 6 spices as well as salt/pepper/hot sauce.
For spices, get those tiny ziplock bags at the pharmacy they sell for pills
This is awesome!! Let’s party!!🔥🔥🙏🙏❤️❤️
The plastic lids can be used as plates.Just don't cut on them with sharp knife.
Nice kit. Have you tried the Dash mini ice cream maker?
yes I have. It did not work very well
Where did you get the stainless steel pots with folding handles? Thanks!
I bought them at Daiso
Where did you get the metal cup with the handles? I didn’t see them tagged in the comments!
Daiso. It’s like a Japanese Dollar Store.
Are you joining Flocktown again? I'm trying to plan processing a share into small portions to be cooked in your scale.
Yes, I’m looking forward to my first delivery next month.
Who carries the saucepans with folding handles?
Those were from Daiso
@@CounterCooking Thank you