Best Road Food Tips, Hacks, Cookers, Tools, Etc

Microwave, Engel cooler, and Ninja air fryer. I don’t need anything else.

 

Don’t forget coffee maker. If you drink it.

 

The pods are best for the truck as there is little to clean up.
A bit expensive and about the cost of truck stop coffee if you like it strong, but it tastes better because you made it yourself.
You have to make sure your coffee maker can accommodate your coffee container, height wise.

Really very extremely nice when you are in the boonies with no other place for the morning brew.

 

Things I couldn't live without:

- Big fridge in my Volvo PLUS chest fridge/ice chest for drinks. I always have juice, sodas, gallon or more of cold drinking water, milk becuase I like cereal.
- electric kettle for pour over coffee or tea. Stupid simple to make and $15 on Amazon. Much better than a coffee pot, less clean up.
- butane single burner stove but I rarely use it
- cheap toaster oven, will replace with a cheap air fryer if it ever dies
- Walmart cheap microwave

I have a sink and 10 gallon water tank in my rig but I know a lot of people can't pull that off. A blue Aquatainer (5 gallon?) with a spout at the side/underbunk door of your truck will suffice and gives you a way to wash hands/face and brush teeth on the road. I'm not sure how drivers live in a truck without some sort of sink. I'm only lucky enough to be at a rest area maybe 1 out of 5 nights a week.

 

That little stove was only $15 at Walmart and it is the only thing I use. Will cook up anything a regular stove can. It has lasted over 16 months now using it everyday.

 

It depends on what you need to be happy. my last trucks had real fridges/w freezer, inverter that could feed a microwave and coffee maker, but not at the same time. I limped along for 3 years in the 1990s with a 12 volt cooler and a 12v oven, that looked like a small toaster oven. But if you have AC power and a microwave I would not have much else. I found the kuerig/pod coffee makers to be far too expensive and to make far too weak coffee. I got rid of mine and used a $20, 5-cup drip coffee maker from Walmart. I could live without the coffee maker since the truck stops I used always had the whole bean to cup coffee makers. If you only drink coffee in the morning and you always park at truck stops I wouldn't bother with any coffee maker.

 

I love and instant pot or I'm sure the other kinds can do the same. To be able to cook a roast in 40 minutes is awesome.