I've taken the plunge and bought a coleman dual fuel stove, however we only have a set of the £11.99 aluminium pot set from Argos, do you think these will be okay to use
Is it the set with the little kettle? Great for boiling water, sauces, etc.. but as not non stick , not good for anything fried.
We tried frying and spent longer washing up than cooking in it. We still use the saucepans and kettle but have replaced the frypan with a lovely huge non stick one with a fold up handle. Its so good i use it all the time at home.
The aluminium ones are good as fruit bowls, for rinsing salads, heating soup, etcc. As they stack so well Id take them along even if I wasnt planning to cook. They take up very little more space than the kettle alone.
I would be interested to find out which pans people use on the dule fule cooker as we have just bought one, at the weekend we used it for the first time but we took our pans from home which are heavy duty non stick but do need to get a set for camping. Ive read somewhere that you need good quality ones because the petrol burns hotter than gas and could damage the pans, i would ask in the camp shop when looking at pans?
I agree about non stick, i hate washing up as it is!
Have to say that our alloy pans, the very same cheap ones from Argos, are great. The heat up quickly, never cease to amaze me how easily thay clean up, and have lasted well. We have a small non-stick frying pan as well though, but we dont tend to eat much fried food except for stirfrying. We tend to grill food. The silly little kettle lost its place to a full size kettle though.
Our set in the tin tent were bought donkey's years ago and cost around £20 way back then but they're non-stick, lightweight, all fit inside each other with the lids doubling up as frying pans, plus three egg poacher and deep fat basket thingy too. We've never used the deep fat basket but it does a good job as a strainer and we always still use a small omelette pan just for fried eggs or pancakes.
Think that any ali pans are great for camping cooking as they heat up so quickly and save fuel too.
I use MSR pans.....more expensive, but last well and are brilliant. I have non-stick ones......proper non-stick too, not the sort that peels off! I also have some of the non non-stick pans too which also do not stick, other than fro frying eggs...then they can.And a couple of the ones that seal themselves when closed......
Quote: Originally posted by the joneses on 12/7/2006
Is it the set with the little kettle? Great for boiling water, sauces, etc.. but as not non stick , not good for anything fried.
We tried frying and spent longer washing up than cooking in it. We still use the saucepans and kettle but have replaced the frypan with a lovely huge non stick one with a fold up handle. Its so good i use it all the time at home.
The aluminium ones are good as fruit bowls, for rinsing salads, heating soup, etcc. As they stack so well Id take them along even if I wasnt planning to cook. They take up very little more space than the kettle alone.
Where did you get the frying pan from & what make is it. This is the only thing we havent sussed out for packing yet.
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Topic: Which Pots
