Camping gaz bivouac kit is giving me much pleasure.

[Slubberdegullion]

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Open the shiny saucepan.

Remove gubbins

The legs go in click click click click

The gas cylinder goes in. Turn and click.

Turn knob. Press knob. Click and whoooooooooooomszsvsvsvsvsvsvsvsv [gas burning noise]

Put handle into saucepan click

And away you go.

The saucepan lid can actually click down onto the pan and is has little sieve holes in so you can drain away freely and casually with one hand and quaff wine with the other.

So big old stove is OUT. stove legs are OUT. Massive gas bottle that is a bastard to pack OUT. Natty bag of multiple self stacking saucepans OUT. Sieve is so out it is not true.

Lordy Lordy.

Oh the tin tenters are coming out now. Armed with their kingsized beds and en-suite loos.

Tell me, I'm sure you must have, do you ever have a crap AND a shower simultaneously. i mean you can, so why not?

No moist awakenings here, oh no siree. We are in a storm tent we are. Safe and dry as houses but with that lovely smell of canvas from your childhood.

Oblomov I'm sorry

[needle scratching off record]

Are you saying that only dh reverses your caravan? That you can't? Or won't?

Are you in fact Terry and June?
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Oh lord we move our tin tent with a remote, it's great - like a huge toy! Cannot be bothered with all the faffing with the reversing. And we have toast.

But I love my Cobb more than anything and never want to use the van oven again. Are there ANY redeeming factors in that?

Enjoying cobbery redeems you slightly scaryt.

But using the caravan remote plus making and toast on a campsite (in a toaster I presume. On a taosting fork over an open fire/the cobb is obv fine) has put you seriously in the red, sorry.

that was making and enjoying toast btw

but then I saw you hadn't said you enjoyed it [the toast] so I did a half hearted delete.

Terry and June ? oh dear, thats a bit close for comfort. god no, I've never towed ort reversed. flippin frightening, both.

Don't let them know in aibu.

You'll be flayed alive.

I'll take a slight redemption. ;)

I love the idea of tent camping but the thought of no toilet bar a PJ clad dash in the cold and the dark is not good - I'm far too wuss like for that. And I do love Jess (as named by the 5yr old).

We do have an electric toaster but I actually would rather cook more on the cobb. Can I do risotto and the like or is that too poncey for a campsite? I'd like to do as much outdoor cooking as possible.

But you can reverse your car on it's own, Oblomov?>>

And there is no twitching of chintzy curtains here. Plain utilitarian blue. Our caravan is like Ikea on wheels - no frills.

Slubber how do you make a cup of tea with your stove? Toast may not be essential but you're having a larf if you say tea isn't!

I WANT one. It would go beautifully with my Kelly kettle!

I'm going to bake a cake on the firepot this year. I've been looking forward to that sice I though of it about Christmas time.

I can make toast when I go camping, tis the highlight of my mornings (when I dont forget the bread that is

I use this on top of my stove www.caravanning-online.co.uk/acatalog/bistro-toaster.html I didnt pay that for it though, it came free with my stove which was £9.99 in lakeland sale a few years back

Makes me the popular gal at breakfast time it does

We have an attachment that fits into the car ciggy lighter that we can plug our toaster into

So, slubber, have you used your Bivouac® Kit? Might be getting a tent and this would be handy. Just wondered if it worked as well as it looks.

sorry, no not yet scary. Although I have set it up and packed it away several times. If you are short on space, need to use a largish saucepan and are a 2-3season camper (so not doing mountains or in the bleak mid winter) then I think it's a pretty perfect bit of kit.

Only downside really is the gas in the small canisters is SO much more expensive than exactly the same stuff in the big bottles.

Hmm wonder whether I'd be better with a bog standard single burner. Just really liked the cool, bijou look of this. And it packs so small in its natty bag.

I'd take the cobb and just need something for making tea/hot chocolate/pasta type cooking.

Am also thinking I need the frying pan/wok for the cobb.

Bog standard single burner would be fine (and cheaper) but this goes In The Saucepan. The In The Suacepanesss of it is what won me over. And the sturdy legs, click click click.

Cobb mit wok plus bivouac kit and maybe a kettle and I reckon you have all your cooking bases covered.

I've been offered a single burner by a v kind person on another forum ffp.

But so want the whole, click, click, click, whoooooooooooomszsvsvsvsvsvsvsvsv combined with the shininess and the In The Saucepaness of it all.

But mustn't get carried away.

So burner of some kind, Cobb wok and kettle and I can cook! So you reckon wok rather than frying pan?

Then an airbed and a tent and I am away.

Wot no tent?

You're gonna need a tent

Wok better than frying pan, can get loads more in it.

Ahem, yes, no tent.

But I have a master plan. Dh most definitely will not be camping so just me and the boy. DH thinks I've lost the plot, hence the need for minimal spending/taking up of space/masterplan.

However love of the cobb is mutual, so the wok will make the cut either way.

It is based around the idea that I could take the 5 year old on trips around North Wales.

That sounds nice. Just you and ds and the Cobb. When are you going then?

Hopefully July/August...just need some nice sites with almost no amenities, other than a shower, and a beach nearby.

It all sounds so good.

Just found a video for the bivouac, the clicks sound so satisfying.