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After reading a blog regarding the Kyham 4 pole windbreak(with canopy) i decided to give it a go and use it as my main cooking area, and i must say it was a great idea, we had 40mph winds and it didnt budge once..

As you can see it worked a treat, i used a cotton real over the metal spikes at the top of each pole so i could hammer the poles into the ground securely and it didint move at all, a highly recommended windbreak.

I too think its great kitchen area too.  Infact you have a very similar set-up to me!  I bought a tabletop windshield for the top of my table just to give the stove a little more help when windy.

- one tip is put a small piece of take over the spike to stop the guyrope flying off.  When it was windy the actual windbreak tood up it only failed because the guyropes holding the poles up kept coming off the ends!

Only thing now is that our poor cotton reel is looking a bit worse for wear - but I have seen a website that makes them so I think I might suggest a certain thinkness and length and see whether that can make any to a certain specification.

Ahem. Given that one reaon for cooking outside the tent is to avoid the risk of setting fire to your tent, why put this arrangement so close? The idea is that you pitch your kitchen area away from your tent, surely? If you have a fire in youyr set up, the tent is going to go up just as fast. Hopefully you have a second doorway?

(Was my blog post you probably read btw, )

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Same set up as ours RogLozLee..

at Val - it was your blog that gave me the idea, and lol we had 2 doorways.

Val - don't worry I have 4 other exits.  In an ideal situation I know that it should be put further from the tent but its that same old dilema - do you or don't you cook in a tent - and I think this subject gone on and on on another thread somewhere.  Equipment is only as safe as the person using it in my opinion.  Besides due to British weather Its near the tent so I don't get wet when it rains! 

My set up is so I have some room where the cooker is out of the way so no-one is under my feet when I boil the kettle - which is pretty most of what I do in my set up and perhaps a bacon and egg bap in the morning! No steam no frying or fat smells in the tent.