📦 Friday Finds! Power, Protection & Kitchen Precision | RV & Home Must-Haves

Welcome to Dude RV. Hey, I appreciate you stopping by and of course say it with me. You got here at just in time. That's right just in time because it's Friday and it's time for another edition of Friday's Finds. Now you background watchers are looking to see okay he's on the porch, he's on the patio, but we're not in the house yet. But I do have a propane truck up there. We're getting gassy today. All right, we've got five products today. Let's open some boxes. We're gonna start with the big box from Pig Zone. It's a big one. I don't even know how to start. First off, we don't want to show barcodes or anything like that. So let me let me do some cutting and some arranging and then we'll be back. I'll be back. This is a clamp-on multi-purpose peg board organizer itself from Pig Zone. Some assembly is required. Here's what it looks like and I have just the place for it. But let's let's see what's all in what all is in this package. Some assembly is required. When we're all said and done it should look kind of like that. Let me put it together and I have just the place for it. We got some fun stuff. We really do. We got some cool stuff. So we opened the biggest one. Now we're gonna go to the flattest one. Biggest to flattest. And I gotta do that because you'll see. This one's just got me so excited. Y'all remember if you've been following Friday's Fives for very long, you'll remember about a year ago I worked with a set of steak knives that were hands down the most beautiful thing to eat with. I still have those. I still use them. I love them. And they they reached out to me again. They said, would you be interested in some more knives? I'm like, oh man yeah. You gotta see these. This set is awesome. The Sayokami. Sayokami? Sayokami? Classic series. Multifunctional butcher knife set. Oop, gotta hide that. This would make a perfect wedding gift. Father's Day gift. Any guy would love this. Any carnivore. Any meat eating guy. Safety instructions. How to use. Designed in Japan. Designed in Japan. Oh look at that. This is such a beautiful, I mean that is a beautiful work of art. A boning knife. I'm gonna have to have to buy a big old steak or something. And then we have a cleaver. Oh man, I like that. It's got some great balance to it. Look at the pattern. That means I gotta go shopping for some meat. We needed to test the cleaver. I love it. It'd be a perfect addition to my dining experience. That's awesome. Okay, let me put my toys away. I gotta go find some meat to cleaver, to cut, to render the Sayokami. Sayokami. Sayokami knives. All right, moving right along. We are moving. Let's open another box. Colorful driving. We have an older car. It's paid for. Got some stains on my leather seat. Car pass. Wanted to get in on the Friday's Fines action and so they sent us, they sent us something that is kind of interesting. I'm not sure if I can get into the dang box. These would be like slip covers for your car seat. Well, it's in a set of two. There's the instructions. So we'll be putting on one, putting one on for you to see. All right, moving right along. We're ready for a small one. Let's go to the front door. No, literally, that's where this, this product, this product goes to the front door. This is the Philips. This is a well-trusted brand. Dual camera video doorbell. Dual camera video doorbell. For my electrician. So we're, in case you don't know, we're building a house and the electrician's asking me about doorbells. I said, I need just the most basic doorbell. Why? Well, because people send me doorbells and things. So this has a chime. What else is in this box? I presume this is the doorbell camera itself. It's a nice unit. Template, sticker, mounting brackets. I guess it's in case you have a, I don't know. I guess I got to read some instructions. There we go. All the wiring. Some assembly required. All right, let me open another box. I'll push this to the side. We'll open another box and I'll spend the next two days assembling products. Let's open another box. This one is going to be fun. This comes to us, where did this come to us from? Zero Core sent this to us. This is a portable power station with a solar panel. So that means this is a bonafide solar generator. Not just a battery bank. How cool is that? So we have a box and in that box will be charging stuff, owner's manual, and we have a handy dandy. Oh, that's got some weight to it. So this is a 40 watt solar panel. This will be great for your traveling. We got multiple different plugs, so you can plug it by charging in the car. You got a brick and then we have a solar panel. Oh, that's a handy size too. All right, and we are blind. I am blind. I am blind. It's a model R100. It's got 146 watts. So this would be considered a 100 watt solar charger, a solar generator. All right, so we need to charge it up and power some stuff. So let me get things set up and we will do just that. I think we need to cover up the little spot. Let's cover it up. Not too bad at all for what it is. I mean, you're not doing a total refinish on the seat, but if let's say you're driving every day, sliding in and out, that will definitely protect the actual OEM material. Let's see how it looks when I sit down on it. When I sit down on it, there's a place. Not too shabby. I like it. On a long road trip, this would be handy. Yeah, if you're doing a lot of riding, that'll protect the seat on the car. Not bad at all. All right, we're moving right along. Y'all ready for the big pegboard reveal? I worked hard on this. You better appreciate what I've created here. Check this out. I took one of my old work benches, reassembled it, and turned it into our outdoor kitchen, thanks to the pegboard. We do a lot of cooking outside. Now we can do more cooking outside. We've got a kitchen right there, and now we've got a kitchen out here. I really like the pegboard. Gives me a place to put the spices, the utensils, paper towels. Always looking for a place for the paper towels. It's got a nice tall man's workspace so that I can demo these really cool knives. Speaking of, we need to get something to cut. Need to get something to cut up. All right, let's go find something to cut up. So we are recording on both this camera and these two cameras. And it just indicated that someone pressed, someone had pressed my doorbell button. Not too much of a delay. You could actually have a conversation with that. One thing I did discover is that, as I walk away, it's still pretty sensitive. It is recommended that your doorbell module be located between the router and the doorbell. And I found that to be accurate because my wi-fi router is up there right now, not down here. And it actually seems to work as a bridge. It did not, when I had, I had that little module inside the building, but apparently the metal skin keeps it from, keeps it from connecting to the wi-fi 6. So keep that in mind. But I like this I'm really impressed with the amount of power that this little thing has. It's enough to power my CPAP most of the night, if I don't have the heater on. If I run the heater, it won't do that. So the inverter actually pulls power too. So you always want to remember to turn your inverter off. So we're, we're at 87%. It was at 100%, but I left the inverter on. Turn the inverter on right there. Let's see. We have a fan over here. Let's see if we can power a fan. There you go. And we also have, we've got the inverter on, so we can turn the inverter off, which is right there, but we still have power. What's interesting, what's cool is we charge it and use it at the same time. So now we're charging and using the same time. So it shows we're a little flashing light there. That means that we are charging. We can plug that in. All these different connectors. That's a great little package. Perfect to leave in the car for when you need to run the laptop or something. All right. I like it, and I know you will too. All right, all right, all right. We are going to cut some meat with these knives. Now I have sanitized them. Got a couple of things we are going to use these knives on. We're going to start off with a roast. I'm going to make some jerky in my smoker. So I'm going to use these knives and slice me some thin pieces of meat. That's pretty short right there. Let's try a big one. I love the Damascus steel look. I think this is the better one for doing this. All right, I'm going to finish this up, and then we'll be back. I've got a low battery, so I'll go get the pork loin. All right, I've got the pot roast is cooking. Now we're going to do up some bacon wrapped pork loin skewers. Nice and sharp. Look at that. I need to get you over here to the other side. That way you can see how sharp that is. Hardly any pressure. way they look. I like the way they handle. They are well balanced. I like them a lot. All right, I'm going to hyperlapse you showing what I'm doing with this. It's not elaborate. So all of these items are available on Amazon. And being the gracious host that I am, I will provide you with purchase opportunities. The first one of those will be in the cards above. That will take you to the Amazon, the Dude RV Gear Recommendations Amazon page and the Friday's Finds 2025 shopping list. So all the products that are on this show in 2025 will be in that shopping list. Your business is most appreciated. Now, if you don't want to mess with the shopping list, you just want to go get the sunglasses. Well, there'll be a direct product link in the description below identifying what the product is and a link that will take you directly to the page. So it would really help the channel out if you click on the direct product links. That shows up on their metrics, so they're more inclined to send me more products to show you on this Friday's Finds thing we got going on. And of all these products this week, I think these sunglasses are going to be my very favorite and you'll be seeing them in every anytime you see these on my face. The link will be in the description below. I might just make that a permanent fixture because I really like these sunglasses. We are at the end of this edition of Friday's Finds. Man, we were all over the place this one with the doorbell and sharp knives and battery pack. What else? Oh yeah, and the pig board, pig rack. We got a whole new kitchen. How about that? All right, we're done. If this is your first visit to the Dude RV Traveling Roadshow, of course, I'm not doing much traveling right now. Trying to get a house built. 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