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Hi All,

A question from a newbie

What would you recommend using for day to day cooking for a longish (12day) Tent holiday?

We're not looking to be gourmet but would like to have the abillity to do a decent breakfast for the family (5 of us).

Is a couple of rings enough?

Any thoughts and tips?

We use 3 small stoves with disposable cartridges  for 4-6 ( depending on Grandchildren coming with us) had a double burner but found it ran out in the middle of cooking, also this was bulky also carrying large gas bottle.

I’m sure other campers will come up with there ideas but like I said the small stoves suit us better we do bacon on one sausages on others & eggs on the third one.

Also using BBQ heating trays.

Good luck & good cooking

When I camped with my hubby and 3 boys I had a double hob and grill. That's two rings with a grill underneath. I found that adequate but you could also take a BBQ for added cooking area and especially for breakfasts, lovely.

Look at the party grill, there's a review of them on here and a competition to win one. Also a double burner and grill- go to the competition tab at the top.

Happy Camping.

We use a Coleman dual fuel stove twin burner , it runs on unleaded petrol and is a marvellous peice of kit.  if you do a search in the equipment forum for Coleman stove you will finds lots of posts about it.

You can get these at Costco currently for about £47, alternativley Towsure normally have them at a good price.

I just added a JML griddle from Woolworths for a fiver - great for those breakfasts. 

Thanks all,

Very useful. We already have a single gas ring one... The Misses thought we should have one in case of a powercut at  home!!!! (or nuclear war).

I'm thinking double ring and grill may suit best.

Ta

Hi and welcome to the site,

Like Hik01, I too have the Coleman Dual Fuel and I cannot rate it highly enough!

I run an unleaded car and as such always carry a container of fuel (safely) in the boot but as Hik01 says check out the existing threads as they offer some sound advice.

Each option has it's pros and cons but after weighing up initial cost, portability and ongoing running costs the coleman worked out cheaper and more suitable for my needs  Additionally the heat from the main burner is awesome and it runs on peanuts (not litterally).

I have a small back packing stove that I take in case of emergencies but the coleman is the business, and like all fuel stoves apply a large doese of common sense and all will be well.

Cheers 

We are a family of six and find that with a bit of careful planning, two of those single burners are fine, plus maybe a BBQ. Make sure you take sauceplans with lids, then you can cook some things (e.g. rice) and leave them to stand for a few minutes cooking in their own heat while you use the ring to cook something else.

Flavoured couscous is a great way to save on gas rings. ignore the instructions - just pour boiling water on the dry couscous, cover and leave for 10 - 15 minutes. Plenty of time to cook the rest of the food, and you only need the ring to boil the water in the first place.

If you are BBQing then you won't need the ring for the meat, so it would just be for potatoes/rice, and maybe another veg if you're not having salad.

Take a large thermos flask to pour any leftover hot water from the kettle into. You can either use this water directly when you need it, especially if it doesn't have to be absolutely boiling, or pour it back into the kettle to top up with heat. It saves gas, and can free up a gas ring.

Hi: I also use thermos flask water is used for pasta also a good tip we cook some food prior to travelling on weekend trips Chilli or a spag bog then just heat this up in saucepan

Its always tastes better outside Yum

All brilliant advice.

Thank you so much!

X

We are a familyof 4, and use a 2 ring with grillunder fold up gas cooker set. It does all our needs for both weekenders and long holidays.

The only thing we struggle with is toast in a morning, the grill takes forever to grill anything so is rarely used.

I have noticed threads re toaster thingies, can anyone help on this, we are thinking of taking the toastie machine with us this year instead, my mum in law makes all her toast on one of these, and her toast always tastes better than mine so might practice and do it all with that.... After all you can't beat a toastie late at night after a few nightcaps..... mmmmm

Hi woofy,

I had a gelert four slice toasting device that took too long and dried the toast to the texture of cardboard!?!?!  So I replaced it with one of those single slice metal gauze toasting racks and it is brilliant - arguably better than toast made in a domestic toaster - the toast is nice and brown while retaining it's delicious fluffy centre!

Just keep an eye on the bread as it browns very quickly and can occasionallly combust!?!?!?! 

I have used this toaster on an open fire and the results were equally good - top notch!

Beware that the likliehood of toast falling off the rack is direclty related to the amount of nightcaps one has had!?!?!

Cheers

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