Questions had been asked if gas BBQ off the ground would be allowed, and the answer was 'no' due to naked flame risk.
Good job the food for the BBQs I have planned for the next trip can be cooked using the 2-burner induction hob and the electric mini oven in the van!
I am booked on a hardstanding pitch with grass and EHU, and would have worried about parking on a grass pitch after a long drive!
Stay safe everyone!
DK
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I'm just back from our annual rescue dog rally w/e that I co-organise. A group BBQ has long been a big part of our socialising, but we took the fire risk very seriously with a view to the parched ground and wildfire risks, and half expected either the camp site to have banned BBQs and/or the Peak District National Park to have banned them totally (plenty of localised bans in place!) by the time we arrived, and our discussed in advance contingency plan was for attendees to cook 'BBQ food' in their vans/campers/MHs, and we'd just gather to eat. We had a pre-arranged bulk BBQ food order being delivered to the camp site, so there was little option but to cook it somehow! Thankfully the BBQ went ahead as planned.
TBH, rather shocked on arrival at the camp site to find it was green and lush, and so were the surrounding fields - and we had a few showers too, to ensure it stayed that way! Total contrast to what most attendees had left behind at home! We still followed near paranoid precautions with the BBQs (we had 3 on the go!), sited them on a spare hardstanding pitch, well off the ground, and plenty of buckets of water to hand. Never left unattended, and thoroughly doused to extinguish when we'd finished cooking.
We also asked attendees not to bring personal BBQ's and absolutely banned disposable ones from the event. Any outside cooking, even gas stoves HAD to be well off the ground, and a bucket of water to hand.
Precautions were probably OTT, but very much of the mindset better to be safe than sorry.
We always ban firepits/open fires anyway, as far too many very expensive awnings at risk of damage from flying embers, but this year we had a far more important reasons to ban them!
Considering how stupid and cavalier some people are with outdoor cooking and fires, I do feel CAMC are being sensible with their ban.
My last camp was in Suffolk. On the second night the horizon glowed orange and for the next 4 days the smoke pall from Dunwich Heath was clearly visible. So frightening.
I usually cook over a campfire. I will be reverting to a gas stove for the foreseeable. Or do they count as naked flames too?
I always have my fire blanket and or water to hand anyway.
Instead of having a BBQ with my Cobb, I roasted the chicken thighs and lamb ribs in the mini oven, and pan-fried the burger and sausages.
It worked and meal was tasty.
Not on a CAMC site, an independent site on the Norfolk coast, and the grass and surrounding areas are definitely very dry and I did not wish to risk having a BBQ with the Cobb.
DK
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Fair enough, we haven't taken the Cobb away with us on any trips this year, just the trangia for heating things up (put it on a table). Everything is so dry.
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Topic: CAMC Temporary Bans BBQs August 2026
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