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Don't take an 'out' BBQ in to a tent/ boat cabin

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shakeitoffshakeacocktail · 14/06/2025 20:39

Posting on AIBU purely for traffic

NEVER take a BBQ that has been 'out' for a few hours into a tent for warmth.

The carbon monoxide will kill you.

This type of death is VERY common and I just want to spread awareness

The BBQ continues to give off carbon monoxide for hours after going 'out'

You need ventilation for gas cooking stoves and gas heaters too

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rainbowunicorn · 14/06/2025 22:23

Poopeepoopee · 14/06/2025 22:20

Why is my oven in my kitchen safe but If I bring in a portable oven from outside it's not safe? I don't understand.

Because any carbon monoxide from a gas oven should be easily ventilated away. If it is giving off large amounts of carbon monoxide it is due to a fault or not enough air.

PerkingFaintly · 14/06/2025 22:23

Your gas oven is only safe if there is certain minimum amount of ventilation to the kitchen.

There are regulations about this.

If, as happened in my kitchen, it transpires someone has taped plastic over that nasty chilly air vent behind a cupboard, then your CO alarm will keep going off when you have the oven for more than a very short period.

So, baked potatoes needed an open window in my house until I found and re-opened the air vent.

AhTheFuckening · 14/06/2025 22:20

God, that's awful @PerkingFaintly.

I'm going to talk to DS about this tomorrow.

Poopeepoopee · 14/06/2025 22:20

Why is my oven in my kitchen safe but If I bring in a portable oven from outside it's not safe? I don't understand.

PerkingFaintly · 14/06/2025 22:19

Terrible case a few years ago.

IIRC a small group of lads celebrating their A-levels or the like and having a camp-out in one of the family gardens, brought the disposable BBQ into the tent to warm it for the night.

All dead in the morning.

Just awful.

ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine · 14/06/2025 22:15

Wow, I had no idea! I’d never bring a still warm bbq into a tent anyway because I’ve always assumed there was a fire risk. Thank for the info.

Hillrunning · 14/06/2025 22:12

Not just inside, close to the entrance is also a big risk. This happened to me. I was sitting on the inside of the tent. Disposable bbq just outside the tent near the entrance, friend sitting fully on the outside. Wind must have directed the carbon monoxide my way because I was so so poorly for so many hours (having not eaten any bbq so was definitely not food poisoning) I hate how stupid I was and am thankful for how lucky I was. I almost decided to stay in the tent post bbq, friend talked me into going for a walk instead. Had he not, things could have been so much worse.

Moltenpink · 14/06/2025 22:05

Good post, if you’ve never been told then how would you know?

soupyspoon · 14/06/2025 22:02

You mean an extinguished BBQ OP

Yes you are correct, although I will say when we went camping we had a wood burner in our tent with a flu and people didnt really understand that. Perfectly safe and we had a carbon monoxide monitor hanging from the central pole in any case.

AhTheFuckening · 14/06/2025 22:02

Worthwhile post OP.

It might not just be disposable barbecues, e.g. we have a Cobb, which still shouldn't be brought inside even once it's been out out completely.

endzone · 14/06/2025 22:00

Sorry maybe OP does mean a dispBBQ,

endzone · 14/06/2025 21:59

Poopeepoopee · 14/06/2025 21:56

Do you mean those disposable ones? I don't understand. Why would you bring a used bbq into a tent anyway?

No OP doesn’t mean a disposable one, I presume she means more of a camping stove type
with gas?

Poopeepoopee · 14/06/2025 21:56

Do you mean those disposable ones? I don't understand. Why would you bring a used bbq into a tent anyway?

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 14/06/2025 21:51

I remember reading of one , people had used a disposable barbecue inside their home and died from carbon monoxide poisoning.i think it was in a tower block in Birmingham.