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Chad's pullout drawers preserve cooking space beside his Sprinter, with pantry lids designed to stay out of the way.
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UNCUT: Let’s Cook a Steak in an Urban Setting | Living The Van Life
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- 0:36Chad opens the Sprinter's rear doors and slides out the wooden kitchen drawers.
- 13:10The steak goes into the skillet fat-cap first before Chad sears both sides.
- 20:08He shows how his SketchUp-designed kitchen fits around the van's garage storage.
- 24:14Lift-up pantry hinges preserve flat workspace beside the stove.
- 29:15Chad eats beside the rear drawer while repeatedly shooing away yellow jackets.
- 42:25The stove comes apart and the cooking gear returns to its storage compartments.
The steak is sizzling, but Chad's wooden slide-out kitchen deserves a look of its own. In "UNCUT: Let's Cook a Steak in an Urban Setting | Living The Van Life", he explains how he designed the drawers in SketchUp around the Sprinter's garage storage. Special lift-up pantry hinges keep the work surface usable. Even the paper towels have a weighted cord to stop the wind unrolling them.
Living The Van Life posted nothing new this week, leaving that Bellingham parking-lot dinner among its busiest older uploads. It has reached roughly 60,000 views. The meal runs from searing the steak's fat cap to butter-basting, eggs and cleanup, with hungry yellow jackets providing the interruptions. Chad calls the kitchen "my favorite part of the van build."
Elsewhere in the archive, "FAILED Mission In The Backcountry | Living The Van Life" follows a trip toward a peak outside Stanley, Idaho, interrupted by fallen trees and a snowbank. "Campfire Sessions | Cooking Chili in a Dutch Oven | Living The Van Life" offers a different cooking setup: a pot suspended from a tripod over a fire in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
The channel added about 66,000 views over the week, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is a little below its usual level. Nearby travel channels Court and Nate and Michael Drake are both drawing above their normal daily audiences; Living The Van Life's week has been smaller, with dinner beside the van drawing more daily views than either of those two backcountry uploads.
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Chad explains that he designed the dual slide-out drawers in SketchUp around the garage storage space.