How do you have your minimal kitchen set up?

[PeppermintCreamsSaga]

(Newbie camper here!)

By minimal, I mean just a camping stove, and a few utensils and basic equipment. (Not 1 x hunting knife!) It will just be breakfasts and hot water we'll be cooking.

We won't be taking any furniture, just trays and picnic blankets, but I think a small table will be a good idea to put the stove on and away from DS?

Where do you put the stove? Do you keep it inside, then take it outside when using it? What if it rains?!!

We have a trangia. Cooks in any weather. (So they say, but we are not proposing to test it out - fair weather campers here. ) But have cooked outside in the drizzle before. You can cook on the ground but I got a little folding shelf type thing from Wilkinson to sit it on. We have a little roll slat table too for stuff.

As for keeping stove away from DC, that's more than I know. If you locate it at the end of the universe they will still make a beeline for it. It's a great mystery to me. If anyone knows the solution please post.

I put my stove on a folding metal table, leave it out all the time but at night pack it away in its plastic case, doesnt matter if it rains.

up do you love your Trangia? We have a large but flat three burner and a huge gas bottle which takes up quite a fair bit of space. Thinking about changing it.

We're a family of four by the way.

We have a Trangia from before the kids came along but I don't think I would rely on it for dinner for 4. It is probably do-able if you have a BBQ or don't mind part of the meal going lukewarm while you cook the rest. We only have the meths burner version for now, but if you're going to go for it, I'd get a gas burner as it'll cook everything 10x faster

We have a single ring stove which we keep on a table at the edge of our extension. TBH we only use it for the first tea/coffee of the day and emergencies if we are having a campfire disaster eg. damp wood and hungry kids. Having said that we have just bought a kitchen unit thingy with cupboards underneath and will try it out this weekend.

We feed a family of 4 with our trangia. We do things like rice or couscous - trangia cooks rice like a dream - wrap up cooked rice/couscous in tea towel, fry up some chorizo/egg type things or open tinned fish, chop up some veg. Mix and eat. Or fry hotdogs. Or heat up soup. To eat with bread. Or variations thereof.

I brought one of those £10 halford stoves. It was speedy quick when I tested it out with making coffee and toast in the garden yesterday. So we won't starve! Will try out pancakes, and some sort of lunch at the weekend.

I need the stove to be visible. Otherwise DS will do a forward roll into a pike shape into it.