Camco 53385 RV-Shaped Pot & Pan Drainer, Teal ABS

The Camco 53385 is a hand-held pot and pan drainer shaped like a little travel trailer, finished in teal with the Life is Better at the Campsite logo stamped right in. You hold it against the mouth of your pot, give it a tilt, and the water runs off while your pasta, your boiled potatoes, or your browned ground beef stay right where you want them. No colander to wrestle out of a deep cabinet. No second bowl to wash afterward. Just drain and serve.

If you've ever cooked in an RV galley or a boat cabin, you know the problem this solves. The sink is small. The counter is smaller. A full-size colander eats a whole cupboard and never sits flat in the drawer. This drainer is only 13/32 of an inch thick, so it slides in alongside your cutting boards and lids and disappears until dinner. That's the whole point. It earns its storage space instead of fighting you for it.

Picture a one-pot pasta night after a long day on the water or a long haul down the interstate. The galley's cramped, the crew is hungry, and the last thing you want is to balance a floppy strainer over a shallow sink. You hook this over the pot rim, pour off the water in one motion, and dinner's on plates a minute later. It's the kind of small thing that makes cooking in a tight space feel less like a chore.

Using it is about as simple as kitchen gear gets. The underside has pegs that catch the rim of your pot or pan so the drainer doesn't slide off mid-pour, and the handle gives you something to hold while the steam rolls off the other side. It fits cookware up to 9 inches across, which covers most of the pots and skillets you'd actually carry in a camper or on a boat. Tilt slowly over the sink, let the water go, and set your food down.

It's molded from ABS plastic, so it takes the knocks that come with life on the road. Things shift in a moving rig. This one won't crack the first time it tumbles out of an overhead bin. When the meal's over it rinses clean in seconds, and when you want a deeper clean it's dishwasher safe, so it can ride the top rack with everything else. The teal color stays bright wash after wash, too, so it doesn't turn dingy like cheaper kitchen plastic. No hand-wash-only fuss.

A quick note on what this is and isn't. It's a non-collapsible drainer, so it won't fold down to puck size the way some silicone colanders do. What you get instead is a rigid edge that holds its shape every time you tilt a heavy pot, and a flat profile that stores easy on its own. That rigidity matters most when the pot's full and hot. It measures 11 inches long by 5-3/4 inches wide, with that thin 13/32-inch depth.

The Life is Better at the Campsite branding is part of a whole line of Camco camp-kitchen gear, so if you already run their mats, dish pans, or table covers, this matches the look. Not that your pasta cares. But a galley that feels put-together is a nicer place to cook.

Camco's been building camping and RV gear since 1966, and this drainer is a good example of their bread and butter. Inexpensive, genuinely useful, and made for the realities of cooking in a small space. Toss it in the galley kit and you'll reach for it more than you'd expect. At under ten bucks, it's an easy add to the galley drawer.