Kelly or Cobb kettle?

[Beckadillo]

I’d like to buy a Cobb oven before our next trip, and have been wondering whether to buy a Cobb-brand kettle to go with it, in part to help bring the briquettes up to cooking temp quickly, as it’s a chimney-type kettle.

Does anyone have any experience using a Kelly kettle with a Cobb? Was thinking that if it works well with the Cobb I’d be better off getting that, as it'd obviously work on its own too, and am not sure the Cobb kettle would.

Sorry for the rather dry, technical query, but I know that if I can get info on Cobb and Kelly kettle compatibility anywhere it’s the wondrous Mumsnet camping board!

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We use the kelly kettle on the cobb. Not a perfect fit but good enough.

Excellent, thanks. So now I need to know; does it actually help get the coal-things burning? Also, which size kettle do you have?
Sorry for the questions, but it’s obviously crucial to get such important to get purchases just right!

...so important that my fat thumbs get all the words jumbled in a camping-equipment-lust frenzy.

Tsk.

It does help a bit, although it sits on the top of the fire basket rather than surrounding it which I presume a chimney would do. You need to make sure you have water in it, don't boil it dry. I think ours is a Base camp but I couldn't be sure, we've had it about 10 years.

Ta. Looks like you can buy adaptors for Ghillie kettles to make them compatible with Cobbs, might check those out too...

Wait, you can get kettles for the Cobb?

Oh yes. Cobb sell their own chimney-style storm kettle but I can’t see that it’d work independently, unlike a Ghillie or Kelly kettle. Ghillie sell an adaptor which apparently works with Kelly kettles too. Don’t know about using them with cobblestones but I imagine they’d be fine with briquettes.

May need to have a bit of a word with myself now, as I have to equip at least 3 of the family with waterproofs, and buy many pairs of small boy sandals before we go anywhere near a campsite. Just not nearly so enthralling as cooking gadgetry...

I've read posts where people say they just sit the Kelly kettle over the fuel bit of a Cobb.

We use Australian heat beads in our Cobb.