PP Kitchen 2017 was so fun and so fucking awesome we loved every minute of being your PP Kitchen Bitches!!!!

Three sink setup was great. Nice deep sinks. Took a little over 5 gallons per sink for a conservative amount of water depth.

(Good and bad) Automatic sump pump worked pretty good but you still have to monitor it regularly. Sometimes the float would get stuck and it would not kick the pump on to empty the sump or would not stop pumping after the sump bin was empty.

Two 55 gallon drums of water was good. Used clean cooler water to supplement when available but tried to drained both drums first so they were empty by the end of the stay.

Table next to sinks for dirty dishes helped a lot. Previous years stacking on the ground led to piles of dishes "out of sight out of mind" effect. Stacking on the table put the need to clean front and center.

Checking Ph levels every 2 to 3 hours is needed and it kept the sanitizing water perfect. After 3 or 4 hours the Ph dropped to levels that did not even register color on the test strips. (about 2 caps of Clorox per 5 gallons was good).

Inventory of plates, bowls, knives, forks, spoons, big and small foil serving pans was good this year. We washed the foil serving pans when they were not too messy for re-use. Inventory of napkins was barely adequate but almost running out at the end of the week.

Clorox wipes are excellent. Something magic in them that cleans the playa very good. The amount in inventory this year was adequate. Really beneficial to have a container at the ends of each cook table for cooks and for cleanup. Please supply them again next year.

Hand washing stations are great but getting worn out. Need to replace for next year. (Knotch and Shadow will build new ones).

Rolls of white paper towels were great but we ran short. Select-a-size is best. Perfect for ends of cook tables and also important for helping clean out extra sticky food from cooking pans so the wash water stayed cleaner longer

Brown paper rolls for hand washing stations worked very good but we did run out of those rolls

The disposable gloves brought this year were much better than previous years. Whatever brand they were is the one to get next year.

Table clothes worked great. Cleaning after every meal allowed us to go the entire burn having to replace only one tablecloth and that was due to ripping when someone put duct tape on the center of it and removed it. Need to replenish inventory with same number for next year.

Gorilla tape was only tape that worked to hold the table clothes on the tables but it worked well. Need to make sure we have a roll in inventory for the kitchen tablecloth use next year.

Sharpies and light colored duct/gaffer tape for labeling bins in kitchen during kitchen setup worked great and were appreciated.

Grill lighters for stove was a very good idea but maybe buy a little better quality next year.

Using the large stainless steel (SS) strainer to separate icky cook pot liquids worked good. Icky water drained into a orange bucket and the icky solids were dumped into another orange bucket for sealing and transport off playa. We could use one or two more large SS strainers the size that fits the 3 large cooking pots though. We need them for the frequent separation of pasta from water. Had to use the small plastic strainers and they were not big enough to fit the cook pans or to hold all of the pasta. I had to hold the plastic strainers while the cooks poured the hot water out because the plastic ones would not rest on the pans as they were too small. Got a few nice steam burns to remember the many pasta dishes that are cooked every year

The folding metal wind shields around the stoves help a lot. Worth keeping.

Big grill and the flat top griddle are great and take a tremendous load off the smaller kitchen stoves and great time savers for massive bacon, pancakes, toasted bread or grilled meat cooking.

Coffee routine of about 100 plus 60 cups (160 total) per day seemed about right. Coffee made for breakfast only which lasted until 1030 or 1100 usually. Seemed about right but let us know if we need coffee available later in the day.

Single serve coffee packets were very appreciated for the late to the breakfast party crowd when morning coffee was gone. Need for next year.

Disposable insulated hot cups for coffee were great and we need them for next year also.

Sink height was way too low. Need to raise legs around 8 inches. Rich said they are adjustable.

Need a few spray bottles for water/Clorox disinfectant spray to help remove the really dried on crud off tables and dirty dish table. Also Nevada Health Inspectors mentioned we needed this.

Need some kind of backing for clean dish racks to prevent dishes and utensils from falling off the backside of the racks. Maybe shade cloth and zip ties?

Need more tongs. (Knotch and Shadow will gift more tongs to camp)

Ran short of rolls of white paper towels. Need a few more rolls than the 2017 inventory - Ran out of rolls of brown paper used for hand drying at the hand washing stations

Tri-fold paper towels do not work well… moopy and easily blow all over the place

Ran out of pump hand soap this year. Nevada State Health inspection requires pump hand soap available in kitchen at hand washing stations.

Need at least a couple more 5 gallon buckets than inventoried this year as 4 are now being tied up at hand wash stations.

Ran out of pump hand sanitizer this year.

Need a few more square pot holder pads. We have enough of the mitts but were usually short of pads. Mitts were used instead of the pads but they make the pot unstable.

Almost all stoves are wearing out. Lots of trouble with them this year. Knobs/internal control jets getting loose. Several burners were very low flame and could only be used for light duty.

Griddle accessory for large grill must not be used for cooking anything producing a lot of oil. Someone cooked bacon on it early in the burn and caused what could have been a bad structure fire and possible injuries. There is no drain capability for the grease on the griddle accessory so it just built up, ran over the edge and into the bottom burner flame where it caught on fire.

Grease drip problem from the small griddle is still an issue. Need to engineer some type of drip catcher on that griddle to catch the hot grease.

Personal coolers, dangerous temps and ice problem noted during Nevada Health Dept. inspection. More information needs to be provided to campers ahead of time about priority of icing their coolers properly and keeping them iced.

Drain pipes for sinks (and shower) kept popping out of the sump tanks (not the grey water tanks) and also coming apart at the hose joints. Probably had 10 to 15 spills and 3 full scale head to foot soaks from the grimy sump water when emergency repairs were needed.

Good and bad - Automatic sump pump worked pretty good but you still have to monitor it regularly. Sometimes the float would get stuck and it would not kick the pump on to empty the sump or would not stop pumping after the sump bin was empty.

Not kitchen but in kitchen… First Aid box needs to be inventoried and restocked. I know it is missing ibuprofen/pain killers, band aids are old and don't stick, Pedialyte (don't know what it is used for by Wildchild needed it and it was not there), hydrogen peroxide is expired and doesn't work any more, and missing some other common things I can't remember that peoples were searching for).

Better quality grill lighters needed. A lot of them failed quickly this year.