Meals On The Go

EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK.

- Scott Heiman

AT A recent 4WD show we had the pleasure of bumping into Jim and Janet Crawford from Top End Campgear. As we got chatting, we found that Jim had spent 40 years as a long-haul truck driver. Not wanting to spend all his hard-earned on meals at truck stops, he began to carry a tucker box and a gas cooker in the ’70s. As the years went by, his mobile kitchen evolved from an old army ammunition box to one made of plywood and then of steel. Once he’d settled on his ideal requirements, he generated a stainless steel multipurpose camp kitchen and, on retirement as a truckie, this became the genesis of his Top End Campgear Camp Kitchen.

The Camp Kitchen comes in aluminium with either a powder-coated or metal finish. It’s dust- and water-resistant and has carpet lining to help reduce rattling containers and eliminate noise and broken jars.