Storing all your cooking gear in a big box in the trunk is a pretty common car camping setup. The Brio Kitchen Box, though, does your typical storage solutions one better by transforming into a standalone kitchen for all your cooking needs at the campsite.
Equipped with folding legs and folding shelves, it gives you an elevated work top that’s perfect for use as a food prep and cooking station, eliminating the need to use a dedicated camp table for those tasks. Since it has a full storage box in tow, you can keep all your camp kitchen gear in one place, too, giving you easy access to everything for meal prep in the wild.
The Brio Kitchen Box is an aluminum storage box that measures 29.5 x 16.5 x 16 inches (width x height x depth) when fully collapsed, allowing it to fit comfortably in the boot of most vehicles. It’s stackable, too, so you can carry multiple boxes if you have a lot more gear to pack, Of course, what makes it special, though, it the fact that the box can turn into a standalone camp kitchen by folding out its legs and lifting up the side shelves, turning it into an elevated work area with a big storage cabinet in the body and plenty of surface space on top.
When the legs and shelves deployed, the whole thing measures 56 x 34 x 16 inches (width x height x depth), allowing you to prep ingredients and cook meals without having to hunch over. The work top should fit most two-burner camp stoves and portable grills pretty easily, with plenty of room left over for setting down supplies and doing different types of food prep. The interior compartment, by the way, measures 23.5 x 12.5 x 15.5 inches, allowing it to accommodate everything from camp stoves and cookware to chopping boards and propane tanks to anything else you need in your camp kitchen.
The Brio Kitchen Box comes with a top hatch that you can lift up to open the storage area from the top, allowing you to store the stove below the surface, which should keep the burners away from wind that can mess with the fire during cooking. The sides of the interior are equipped with multiple notches that allow you to add compatibly-sized racks to the main compartment, making it easy to divide it into multiple levels, including a top level to holds that stove at a height that’s right in line with the hatch.
It has spring pin locking systems for the folding shelves and legs, ensuring they hold their position, whether opened or folded, as well detachable feet that lets you adjust height by two inches. There are multiple attachment slots all over the rig that lets you add storage hooks, napkin holders, magnetic knife bocks, storage caddies, and more. Construction is powder-coated 12- and 16-gauge aluminum to withstand cooking temperatures, with steel in high-stress areas, welded joints, and rubber grips on all handles. According to the outfit, it can take on loads of up to 100 pounds, with the box itself weighing 27 pounds.
A Kickstarter campaign is currently running for the Brio Kitchen Box. You can reserve a unit for pledges starting at $449.