Cooking in Your Travel Trailer

Your travel trailer provides you with comfortable accommodations on the road, including a kitchen or kitchenette. However, the kitchen in a travel trailer is a lot smaller than your average house or apartment kitchen, which means that cooking meals can be a challenge. That doesn’t mean you should resort to eating fast food all the time, though! You can still create culinary masterpieces in your travel trailer’s kitchen if you follow a few tips to make things easier.

1. Prepare in Advance

It can be really helpful to prepare batch meals in advance of your trip, which you can toss into storage containers that you then keep in your freezer. All you’ll have to do is empty them onto a baking sheet to reheat them in the oven or microwave them to have a hot and delicious dinner. You could prepare chilis, soups, stews, or lasagna this way at home where you’ve got all your ingredients and implements handy.

2. Use Your Slow Cooker

This humble tool is excellent for campers in travel trailers. You can fill it with meat, vegetables, and liquids in the morning, put the top on, set it to the right temperature, and let it cook for the next six to ten hours until it’s dinnertime. You’ll have a hot meal with very little effort! Briskets, barbeque chicken, chili, stew, and other dishes are easy to cook in a slow cooker.

3. Fix Cold Meals

You don’t have to turn on your stove or oven for every single meal you make. Cold breakfast options include yogurt and granola parfaits with fresh fruit or breakfast cereals. Lunch could be a sandwich buffet with all the fixings, plus chips and pickles. Dinner could be a cold green salad with chopped chicken or fish that you grilled the night before. Get creative with your meals and you can prepare a lot of things without heating up the kitchen at all!

4. Clean as You Go

Due to the lack of space in your travel trailer’s kitchen, it’s helpful to clean up as you go. Put ingredients away in the cabinet or refrigerator as soon as you’ve used them, compost your chopped vegetable scraps, set pans aside to soak, and rinse off knives and cutting boards. You’ll have a lot more room to prepare food if you can keep things tidy.

5. Cook Outside

Finally, if you bring a small grill or make a little campfire outside, you can take the cooking out of your kitchen almost entirely. Prepare burgers, hot dogs, fish, chicken, vegetable kebabs, and even some desserts with your grill or campfire!

Stop by our dealership near Salt Lake City, UT, today to check out our fine selection of new and used travel trailers for sale. Talk to our staff if you’d like financing assistance as well. Airstream of Utah serves our customers in Park City and Provo, UT.