The final time UK tentmaker Cinch and Chinese language world gear producer Wild Land teamed up, they introduced the world a push-button inflatable rooftop tent with severe starry night time views. A yr later they usually’re again, this time with a product that may completely complement that tent in making a extra full base camp.
The brand new Kitchen Cruiser is a nomadic camp kitchen that packs neatly and flips up at camp into an RV-like kitchen block with range, worktop and sink. Throw it within the trunk of a roof tent-topped automobile, and you’ve got your self a deconstructed RV able to discover and camp the world.
The Kitchen Cruiser packs down fairly equally to the iKamper AIOKS however with a contact extra quantity at 22.2 x 15.9 x 18.7 in (56.5 x 40.5 x 47.5 cm, W x L x H), when all closed up and packed for transport. It would not have wheels or an extendable pull deal with just like the AIOKS, which we sort of choose as a result of it’s going to load flat and secure.
Cinch/Wild Land
Not like the AIOKS, which unfurls solely width-wise, the Kitchen Cruiser additionally grows in top at camp through 4 folding legs. Customers may also set it flat on the bottom whereas sitting, with out the legs prolonged. Both method, the 2 aspect cabinets fold upward, and one takes on the function of worktop whereas the opposite holds the collapsible sink. The included lithium battery-powered faucet pipes right into a water canister or bottle (not included) to provide water for laundry, consuming and cooking.
The highest of the Kitchen Cruiser lifts up and rearward to function a shelf or additional worktop, exposing the two.2-kW LPG range that is included with the package. Cinch additionally notes that campers may use a second single-burner range on one of many worktops to create the two-burner setup acquainted to many campers.
Cinch/Wild Land
The design additionally consists of a number of drawers for storing slicing boards, knives, cooking instruments and extra. This makes the Kitchen Cruiser a pleasant, neat grab-and-go cooking resolution that campers can go away stocked to streamline the always-daunting activity of packing the automobile up for a visit into the wilderness. The unit consists of a number of prime carry handles and weighs in at a base (cupboard unit, range and sink) of 43 lb (19.5 kg).
Ever since shopping for a pickup truck, I’ve turn into fairly obsessive about preserving all my tenting gear and bins as sq. and vertically walled as potential so all of it matches collectively like a puzzle within the square-cornered truck mattress for optimum area utilization. Gear like WaterBricks and Entrance Runner Wolf Packs are nice on this regard, and it is at all times good to see the market welcome one other neatly squared piece of package, particularly when it rolls a number of features into one easy-packing design.
Come to consider it, a few WaterBricks stacked neatly towards the Kitchen Cruiser could be a very nice space-optimized contemporary water resolution for hooking as much as the tap. The Kitchen Cruiser sides aren’t fairly flush due to the cabinets, however the face and again panels seem like, prepared for puzzle-piece packing.
Cinch/Wild Land
Cinch is internet hosting a Kickstarter marketing campaign proper now to boost cash for a Kitchen Cruiser launch. Early chook pricing begins at US$449, which feels crazy-high to us, however practically 150 marketing campaign backers appear to disagree. The marketing campaign has screeched previous its aim six instances over, with simply over per week left to go.
Have a more in-depth take a look at the Kitchen Cruiser within the promo beneath.
Kitchen Cruiser: The Final Tenting Kitchen | Stay on Kickstarter Wednesday thirty first August at 10am PT
Supply: Kickstarter
