hi we are due to go away on Monday and as yet have not bought our cooking equipment! What are your favourite setups and why? we are a family of 6 so needs to be big enough to cook for all of us. All help greatly appreciated
Just wanted to say great choice of tent!!! We have the same and love it!!
Regarding cooking - we use a 2 burner gas stove with grill and we have just bought a suitcase type burner (although never used this) to give me a few more options when cooking. I've also bought a mini oven (again untested) so that I can really "glamp" in style!!
I have cooked for 8 just using the 2 burners so it is possible to create yummy meals on minimum equipment! I tend to make similar things that we would have at home - curry, chilli, stew, meatballs, pasta, "roast" dinner etc... I always take 2 saucepans and a frying pan. If space permits I like to take my 3 tier stainless steel steamer.
If we have EHU I like to take our slow cooker which is great for making hearty meals with little effort. BBQ is usually thrown in the car but we never used it last trip and I actually didn't miss it.
Two ring gas cooker...Don't buy one with a grill...they are useless..The cheapest one is just as good as the most expensive GoOutdoors do a two ring for around 22 quid.Alternatively, if you feel like splashing out have a look at a Colemans multi-fuel two burner for around 90 quid...they last forever. They run on Colemans fuel(very expensive) unleaded petrol or Aspen 4T alkylite petrol(cleaner than unleaded and much cheaper the Coleman's Fuel.
I have an Outdoor Revolution single Outhouse. plenty big enough for a largish table, Cadac Safari Chef with gas bottle underneath table and a suitcase stove . Room to store my Cobb too. I had space to prepare stuff which I was a bit worried about initially. This was the first time I'd used the outhouse and now I can't believe how I ever managed without it.
We are a family of 5, and use a 2 burner+ grill camping gas cooker plus a gas BBQ. My husband manages to rustle up wonderful meals to keep us happy campers. What mattered more was the stability of the cooker stand when the children were crawling and pulling themselves up on things!!! We took them to a shop and 'tested' the ones on display before buying !! Hope you have a wonderful holiday whatever the cooker!!
with a few modifications (charcoal tray for use where there are no fire pits or open fires allowed, and grill rack on a chain for conventional BBQ-ing).
Can do a normal BBQ, griddle steaks or burgers on the griddle side of the "lid", cook a full breakfast on the smooth side of the lid, or do a curry, stew, chilli, etc. in the pot, and so much more...............
This setup is more suited to a base camp on a longer trip, but for leisurely meals it can't be beaten.
We are a family of four, but often cook for a few more on camp, so 6 should be fine. We have a backup gas burner that goes on a disposable cyclinder we could use as extra space but don't ever need to.
If you want more they do a triple burner version.
We don't bother with a proper 'kitchen' stand. We prefer to use a sqaure rollup top aluminium table to put the stove on.
This is easily picked up and moved about, which we like as we prewfer to cook outside, but use the canopy in inclement weather
I'd argue that the grill under a two burner cooker isn't useless! Granted it's rubbish for grilling or making toast (get a mesh toaster for that!), but it is fantastic for keeping food warm. I found that with larger groups it's hard to cook enough all at once with only two rings. Then I measured the space in the grill compartment and found that two standard mess tins fit under there perfectly! I keep sauces, BBQed meat etc there on low and it's great.
I am on my own with Borda the dog, and I took my Cadac Safari Chef HP, Weber Go Anywhere BBQ, and a set of stainless steel Outwell cookset with a stove that runs on methylated spirit.
I used the Safari Chef for cooking a nice fry up every morning that kept me going until dinner time. BBQ in the evenings except for one evening when it was raining, and I knocked up a cous cous with stir-fried sausage and vegetables using the Safari Chef instead.
I also used the Safari Chef and the Outwell cookset to knock up a nice meal with pan fried salmon, stir-fried vegetable and rice for me and my ex-hubby when he came to visit one evening, as he is not keen on BBQ food.
I shall have different evening menus for the cooler months, meat sauces, stews, curries, meaty soups etc. with starch such as rice, pasta and noodles. I shall probably bring a couple of suitcase stoves so that I can reheat pre-prepared meat dishes, boil up some starch, and pan fry some vegetables.
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2 ring campingaz burner with grill, and some huge camping pans which are really too big for the four of us! Also disposable bbqs and a little one ring gas thing for the kettle last thing at night.
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. What mattered more was the stability of the cooker stand when the children were crawling and pulling themselves up on things!!! We took them to a shop and 'tested' the ones on display before buying !! Hope you have a wonderful holiday whatever the cooker!!
