Thread: Drawer out, kitchen in. How do you pack your crockery?

I keep all mine in the kitchen unit under the sink and the "dinner service" above in a locker. Pots and pans go under the wardrobe

What pop top are you fitting ??

Our 'crockery' is Melamine so it's clatter and crash free and is kept in a suitable sized plastic box to keep them together and the dust out. Packing rolled up tea towels in the box corners also helps here in limiting movement and efficiently using space. Woolys/Safeway have a good (cheap) line in various complementary sizes though you may have to look around a bit for the 'perfect' fit for your installation.
Cutlery is held in a zip up type kids pencil case (lots of sizes available and also cheap) which works very well. Pots and pans are those ones that pack inside each other with clip on/fold out handles from Anaconda/BFC/Rays etc. Normal pots and pans are a pain to pack, noisy and take way too much room, IMO these ones that pack up like those Russian dolls are way better for camping/touring/packing. All of the above packs up into a small space and the plastic 'crockery' box doubles as the wash up sink.

For breakables like jam/pickle that don't seem to come in tins, carrying them in stubby holders works very well and if the top does pop off the mess is contained.

After many years of touring/outback travel we've finally given the full size gas stove the flick. I've lost count of the number of stoves and stove/regulator/jet/hose/gas bottle issues we've had over this time. It's been replaced with a two burner metho (non pressurised) stove of a type commonly found in boats. Simple and well built in stainless steel it simplifies things greatly. Not as quick to boil the billy for those roadside morning tea stops (so use a smaller billy), for which we have one of those (again cheap) disposable butane cylinder stoves.


Deano

Originally Posted by jerryd

I keep all mine in the kitchen unit under the sink and the "dinner service" above in a locker. Pots and pans go under the wardrobe

What pop top are you fitting ??

Going for the Mulgo Pop-top. SWMNOBOBFAR only had to see it once before she started getting on my case.

Here's mie:

Cutlery is stored in the plastic pot it all originally came in.
Plates stacked on each other.
Colander is home for smaller items and stacked inside washing bowl.
Bowls stacked and stored in saucepan, which lives on the frying pan.

All of this is then stored in the pull-out drawer, with the knives, cups, stoves, etc... and packed in such away to minimise movement. Then, a couple of towels placed on the top to damp any movement.

I work on the basis that whatever you do, it's going to move around. I just want to minimise it and prevent damage.

HTH

M

Plates stack with a collapsible silicone colander between the sizes to reduce crashing about. A circle of carpet does the same job in the frying pan, stackable saucepans on top. Glasses (hate the plastic things) go in stubby holders and cutlery in a sealed plastic box.

We've found that Lock 'n' Lock, although a bit pricey, is the best of the plastic boxes. They don't leak and are easy to keep clean. We're experimenting with a collapsible washing up bowl - so far so good.

Everything goes into a drawer with tea-towels as extra padding.

Hey Bobby

This is a pic of crockery draw from my new UEV440 camper. The pic is bit ordinary but it will give you the idea.



Oh, those 3 vacant holes are for shot glasses, but we already used them....lol

That's a great looking set-up Drover. If I've got enough room I'm thinking something like that for glasses at least. Easy enough to make.

Thanks for uploading the picture.

SWMNOBOBFAR???

That ones got me stuffed.....
Please explain
Mike.