Ok, camping gadgets - please talk to me about kelly kettles or any other wonders...

[MisSalLaneous]

What is your ultimate camping gadget?

We have a camping stove, normal camping kettle and thermos, so I don't technically need another option. I have however drooled over a Kelly Kettle for ages, and have only been put off by price.

So. Please tell me why I need / don't need a Kelly Kettle.

And then also tell me about anything similar or gadget related, I need something to feed my camping excitement until we can eventually go away.

nobody needs a kelly kettle.

we got one of these last year it is amazing

That looks really great!
I can't have one though because I bought a Cobb (which is wonderful) and a camping gaz two ring burner and grill last year! I'll have a collection of stoves if I'm not careful...

I have nothing sensible to add, but I share your excitement. Mine has been building since Christmas...

January: Our first camping trip will be at the end of May and we don't need any new gear this year.

February: We can get in a trip at the start of May, and there are a few things that would be quite useful.

Current situation: We are going camping in a week and we have so much stuff that I am reduced to ordering an Outwell kids' room just to feed my camping fever.

I hope we do get off soon or I will need to get some storage for all our camping gear, and a bank loan to pay for all the sites I'm booking.

I do not need any more kit.

There I said it.

However in the interests of furthering my knowledge of camping gadgety I think I probably need to know more about this kelly kettle of which you speak.

Does it heat up water in a very exciting manner?

My splurge last year was on a Cobb. MY GOD it is a wonderous thing.

Peabody if you have too much stuff WHY are you ordering an Outwell Kid's room?

no good will come of this

the cadac is SOOOOO much better than a filthy old cobb

No it isn't.

COBB! COBB! COBB!

What's a cadac?

fireandlife it's that shoddy here's-one-I-made earlier Blue peter effort gas bbq that bariatric linked to.

It's a bit terry try hard aspirational if you ask me. A bit showy smacks of new money.

How do you fit the Cadac in your car?!

And actually we do need an Outwell Kids' room because, right, it will keep them amused in all the April showers next week.

Also, it looks as though the line has been discontinued so I need to snap one up now before they're no longer available (this is either a brilliant argument for buying something or a terrible one - let's go with the former!).

pffffffft

it's a terrible argument Peabody and deep down in your heart of hearts you know that.

don't you?

Now I know there are folk on here that LOVE their Outwell Kids rooms and give the talk of how much their little children love spending hours and hours in there throwing the balls up through the holes in the mesh ceiling and laughing at the gay abandon of the lime-cum-fushia unisex wall patterns but seriously

seriously now

dead serious

Do you REALLY need one?

Do YOU?

bariatric has some lame-o camper van that how she fits it in I suspect

I'd better need one, Slubber, as it is winging its way to me as we speak

I will tell you how wonderful it was and how it saved our sanity when we get back from camping in the rain next week.

yeah yeah yeah

OR

you'll be a-namechanging to come back here and bewail how you had so much stuff you were forced to leave one of your dc behind at home with a bowl of dog biscuits in order to fit the (now ironic) kids room in the car.

Ooh, sorry for posting and running, I felt a bit bad and had to lie down. It must be all this camping excitement.

For one, I blame Pavlov and Paisleyleaf on another thread who persuaded me I needed a bell tent. My back-out clause was always that dh would say no (he was against it, we bought a new Vango Orchy last year - AND we're relatively new to camping!) However, the fluttering eye-lids and overexcited child-like dancing around the table seemed to have helped, as he said "yes, if you really want it". Now obviously I can't, as I CLEARLY don't need another tent. Trying to distract myself by buying dreaming of gadgets. Hell, I might need 2 tents after all this anyway...

I digress...

Kelly Kettle. It's the coolest thing you have ever seen in your life.

Be prepared to be amazed. Again, I have strong arguments for this: Imagine, if you will, walking through the woodlands... Family time. The birds are singing. A deer jumps away in front of you, running off happily. There are bluebells all around. Ahhhh, you reach a stream. Now if you only had something to boil water for a mug of hot chocolate. AH HA! Kettle Kettle to your rescue. You gather some leaves, an acorn or two, some twigs... I need it, don't I?!

BO, wanted to ask, when you said nobody needs a KK. In a "nobody needs chocolate" or a "nobody needs a hit over the head" kind of way?

Now, a Cadac. See, I grew up with them (in South Africa), but the bigger versions, so I can see how that would be a good option. I know big one too big for us (mainly weekend campers), but then will be great at home. Is the more portable one very rickety then?

And this Cobb you're talking of... Good?

Oh, I also want a "Dutch oven". I think I need to go and live in the bush.

mm mm

OK

I'm in the woods, yes there are birds da di da da deer etc and here is the stream

yes ok I WOULD like a nice cup of tea

BUT

but but but but but

WHO is it who has carried the kelly kettle and the mugs and the tea bags and the teaspoon and the little screw top jar for the milk that has leaked a little bit into the bottom of the rucksack.

IT IS ME.

I have carried all that palarva through the woods and now I have a bit of an ache in my shoulder.

So yes, although I can see it's marvellousness I don't think I really do need one. I'd rather take a thermos tbh.

sorry

[camping gadget in joke]

Hahahahaha. Noooo, freshly made tea is surely superior. And, uhm, ah... Well, what if you don't know what you'd fancy beforehand? Tea bag (light), coffee powder (light, but I realise sacrilege for some), milk powder, hot chocolate powder. And remember, in my illusion dream there was a stream, so I didn't have to carry a heavy water-filled thermos with.

Ok then, tell me about hammocks.

cadac is lovely!!!! [ignores slubber becasue she is covered in ash and soot] puts chicken in roasting tin and cooks it evenly

it folds down really wee. we have the gas canister in the van anyway so i works fo rus.

also v. good in the garden.

cobb equally versatile in garden environment

and

on the beach

or indeed even by a stream.

can you get your cadac down to the stream Biariatric? Can you?

yes i can actually!!!!

and i can only hope it will be upwind from you!

Are you inferring that I smell, because my Cobb, contrary to popular but totally misinformed popular belief (you), does not smoke at all - apart from the initial 2 mins of burning time.

What you can wheel that giant thing through the forest, gas canister and all?

My Cobb comes in a handy carry bag. With two (read it and weep) straps.