Like many Casita owners, we soon realized that cooking outside with a Blackstone Griddle is more pleasant than using the stove inside the trailer. Many (most?) Casita owners opt for the 17-inch model. We got the 22-inch because I was stupid and ordered it by mistake, and it was too much hassle to return. It’s a little on the heavy side but manageable.
To power the grill, we connect it to our propane tanks. Some owners tap the low-pressure propane — the lines downstream of the regulator. It’s my understanding the Spirit and Freedom models have an available port on the four-way connector under the front of the trailer, but they are all in use in our Liberty and the Independence models. I did not want to mess with putting a tee in the low-pressure line, so I opted for a no-cutting solution.
I purchased a tee-connection from Amazon. In order to get the hose to reach, I measured as best I could and estimate I would need a 24-inch pigtail. Which was wrong in the right way — 22-inch would have been better, but better too long than too short.
Installing the tee just required wrenches and yellow propane-rated teflon tape I bought at a hardware store. As you can see, it only taps off one tank, so we that tank goes dry, I physically swap the tanks, so the full one is on the drive side of the trailer. In hindsight, the tee should be on the passenger side, and I might get around to fixing it someday
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