Galley, good and bad bits?

[paulnb57]

What do you like best and worst about your galley? What would you do differently? What space saving tips? Faavourite layout?

Im in the galley planning stage.......

Cheers!

Paul

[tony.latham]

Here's ours. It's functional. As you can see, I'm not a sink guy. I think they are a waste of space. You can use a square plastic container for that. This is our second teardrop but it's suspiciously like our first. This is a 5-wide by the way.


That's a Primus stove. The storage compartment to the right of it is for tongs and other cooking implements. The stove's rubber hose drops down from the bottom, through a slot and into that drawer. That's where the bottle is sitting in a nest hole. It's always hooked up. I hear rumors that the new Primus's are not built like that. Dunno. There are nest spots for two additional bottles behind the 7 gallon water jug. There's a vertical slot behind the cooler for drygoods.

Here's the galley in combat:


You pull the water jug out and it's an easy tap for water or a quick wash. We camp in the boonies, so aren't concerned with gray water.

And the area at the rear of the counter with French-press coffee mugs, coffee pot, and spices:


There's a travel lock on the towel holder. Otherwise they wanna unrole on the road.


You can't see it real well, but there's a magnetic u-shaped garbage sack holder stuck on the right side support –top two pics.

Campin' it's what we do.

Tony

[les45]

My galley is about as simple as it gets. The counter is two pieces of 3/4" ply that slide over each other or can be removed completely to access the space below where we store our coolers, propane stove, coffee pot, and misc. other gear. We use a 10X10 EZ Up over the galley and a 6' folding table on the other end where all our food, water, ice and stove are stored while camping (we take the food in at night and store it in the galley or TV). The galley countertop is used for AC appliances (coffee pot, griddle, etc.) and food prep. We keep all our cooking stuff organized in Rubbermaid containers that travel in the cabin with the table and EZ Up to provide tongue weight. The cabinets are used to store electrical gear, space heaters, etc. I decided to go this route in order to keep a small, light weight hatch and to keep the beveled bottom outline of the weekender. I wouldn't change anything if I were doing it over again.

[grantstew8]

Rather than build cabinets (skill/time) I've put in shelves. I would have liked to have selected a specific model of stackable plastic "Tupperware" box as my yardstick. It's not a major issue now though.

I liked the sliding unit I've made for the cooker; drawer ball bearing slides from an ikea cupboard and a set of drawers from an old office under desk pedestal.
I've 240 v under counter outlets for the powered cooler box and outlets above for everything else. I've wired speakers and USB but it is not to rock the campsite it's for some quiet background music for the odd occasion when crickets can't be heard.
Still got to do lights and I may just use a pair of -bay automotive "daylight running LED" with mounting brackets on the hatch and one under counter to see into the cooler.
Good luck!

[Socal Tom]

Here is mine

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And in combat mode

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I've since added a faucet for water.

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I wish the cabinets were deep enough to slide the oven and fridge in ling ways.
I recently got the fridge and love it!. It takes half the space ( because you don't need room for ice). I went with the plastic containers, I wish I had room for drawers down below. But it works
Tom

[rowerwet]

mine is just a counter top area and a storage area underneath, nothing built in except the 110 plugs (one on each side of the back splash) I like it that way as it is very flexible. I plan on adding a sink I ripped out of a pop up, when I do it will clip onto a bracket on the side of the tear, a built in one in the galley would waste space.

[Shadow Catcher]

My goal was the meal prep and clean up effort be close as possible to home bricks and sticks. The cabinetry was designed by Nancy. Bigger sink than #1 three burner SS cook top, pull out sprayer head faucet and 6Gal hot water heater. We do have a bit less than 6' to work with. Much of the electrical, converter, EMS, switches, are in the galley in front of the water heater.

[grantstew8]

Two more cents on the design I missed on the original post.

If you look at new caravan kitchen design and layout there is a 3 or 4 burner hob and a kitchen sink. Very little kitchen surface to prep, put and chop. The majority of camp sites have a dishwashing sink near the ablution blocks and I like to bbq and need one perhaps. 2 burners.
There is a post on the forum about a sink that clips onto the outside of the td. It's a great mod that I may consider in the future. Again some folk consider a sink a must-have option. The joys of building it to your own spec and design.

[tony.latham]

Two more cents on the design I missed on the original post.

If you look at new caravan kitchen design and layout there is a 3 or 4 burner hob and a kitchen sink. Very little kitchen surface to prep, put and chop. The majority of camp sites have a dishwashing sink near the ablution blocks and I like to bbq and need one perhaps. 2 burners.
There is a post on the forum about a sink that clips onto the outside of the td. It's a great mod that I may consider in the future. Again some folk consider a sink a must-have option. The joys of building it to your own spec and design.

"The majority of camp sites have a dishwasher sink near the ablation..." You guys need to come camp in America!

[Shadow Catcher]

2nd Tony, I have seen only a handful of parks with such facilities and if you boondock seriously you may have to bring your own water or be able to filter/purify it.

[grantstew8]

Yup you're right. We struggle a little with wide open space... The whole of the uk is about 2/3 the size of California but has about twice the population. I can drive east coast to west Coast in a morning. We tend to be restricted to caravan parks. Hence my requirements.

You have to worry about lions tigers and bears, and are able to enjoy a really wild vast country.

In all honesty I've looked at bring my car and td over. It $6k in a container each way excluding our flights. When my lotto numbers come in, I'll do it.

[KennethW]

Grantstew8, You can rent a teardrop for less money. But you might be able to talk one of the guys on the form to let you use theirs(with a damage deposit).
PS no tigers

[working on it]

The majority of camp sites have a dishwashing sink near the ablution blocks

Maybe I'm a little on the uncivilized side, but I'll settle for a garden hose near the Porta-Can.

[grantstew8]

PS no tigers

Perhaps they only live in Vegas I saw a white tiger there during a visit to Comdex. Those were the days!!!!

Back to the thread.

The Guys are right! design the galley based on what you're going to need it for. I really spent time on this aspect and it changed a lot during that design phase. Given the fact you may be on sites where there is no water, power or toilets changes the whole design dynamic and my galley (and TD) would look completely different.

[bobhenry]

I have built 5 trailers now and my 1st one is still the favorite. It sleeps best it cooks best ond organizes best.

The best part is 9 feet of counterspace in a 5'6" wide trailer......