The following is a report from New Atlas.
The last time U.K. tentmaker Cinch and Chinese global gear manufacturer Wild Land teamed up, they brought the world a push-button inflatable rooftop tent with serious starry night views. A year later and they’re back, this time with a product that can perfectly complement that tent in creating a more complete base camp.
The new Kitchen Cruiser is a nomadic camp kitchen that packs neatly and flips up at camp into an RV-like kitchen block with stove, worktop and sink. Throw it in the trunk of a roof tent-topped car, and you have yourself a deconstructed RV ready to explore and camp the world.
The Kitchen Cruiser packs down quite similarly to the iKamper AIOKS but with a touch more volume. It doesn’t have wheels or an extendable pull handle like the AIOKS, which we kind of prefer because it will load flat and stable.
Unlike the AIOKS, which unfurls only width-wise, the Kitchen Cruiser also grows in height at camp via four folding legs. Users can also set it flat on the ground while sitting, without the legs extended. Either way, the two side shelves fold upward, and one takes on the role of worktop while the other holds the collapsible sink. The included lithium battery-powered tap pipes into a water canister or bottle (not included) to supply water for washing, drinking and cooking.
The top of the Kitchen Cruiser lifts up and rearward to serve as a shelf or extra worktop, exposing the 2.2-kW LPG stove that’s included with the kit. Cinch also notes that campers could use a second single-burner stove on one of the worktops to create the two-burner setup familiar to many campers. The design also includes several drawers for storing cutting boards, knives, cooking tools and more.
This makes the Kitchen Cruiser a nice, neat grab-and-go cooking solution that campers can leave stocked to streamline the always-daunting task of packing the car up for a trip into the wilderness. The unit includes several top carry handles and weighs in at a base (cabinet unit, stove and sink) of 43 pounds.
Read the full report from New Atlas here.