Thread: Camping? No more excuses..

Good work Mark, got a great trip to The Springs coming up which was posted today

Aye, Mick

Hi Mark,

Best advice I can give is not to use the big gas bottles if you can avoid them for cooking or lighting. The task of connecting up lines and putting gas lights together then changing mantles, cleaning jets when they block and so on is a major pain. The best thing we ever did was change to flouro lights running on 12V and now LED lighting is probably the way to go. For cooking we changed to a couple of the cheap disposable bottle stoves, any number of models that all look the same from Primus to no name. BCF have a pack that includes a carry bag and a grill plate for around $35. Bottles are available everywhere and they last for a couple of days usually. The only time you will have a problem with them is in very cold (sub zero) where they don't work too well until you can warm the bottle up.

Apart from that, it's fun to get out there isn't it? Nothing like sitting around a camp fire looking up at all the stars that you just can't see at home.

TimJ.

Originally Posted by MickG

Good work Mark, got a great trip to The Springs coming up which was posted today

Aye, Mick

Working on it

Originally Posted by Timj

Hi Mark,

Best advice I can give is not to use the big gas bottles if you can avoid them for cooking or lighting. The task of connecting up lines and putting gas lights together then changing mantles, cleaning jets when they block and so on is a major pain. The best thing we ever did was change to flouro lights running on 12V and now LED lighting is probably the way to go. For cooking we changed to a couple of the cheap disposable bottle stoves, any number of models that all look the same from Primus to no name. BCF have a pack that includes a carry bag and a grill plate for around $35. Bottles are available everywhere and they last for a couple of days usually. The only time you will have a problem with them is in very cold (sub zero) where they don't work too well until you can warm the bottle up.


Apart from that, it's fun to get out there isn't it? Nothing like sitting around a camp fire looking up at all the stars that you just can't see at home.

TimJ.

I agree with all of this, EXCEPT, having 2 single burner bottle stoves, one 2 burner and a grill plate to match with a 2kg bottle would be more practical.

But hey it's just my opinion and it may suit your camping needs, once your out there trying things, you will soon know what works for you and what doesn't.

Oh and bottles are not available everywhere, there are a lot of places that don't carry these bottles, especially small towns with only one store as we found out at Innaminka and then Birdsville

Baz.

I take it back.....I do have an excuse.

After 3 weeks of waiting the supplier has yet to send it, blaming Black Wolf for not shipping to them

Originally Posted by stevo68

Any advice etc let me know as have tried a few different things and catering for at least upto 3 brats so far,

Regards

Stevo

Get ye a camp oven and a jaffle iron for each brat

try campfire oven pizzas, roasts, porridge is a good camping breakfast

Jaffle recipes ask the Blknight. He is an expert I am sure If he was allowed to he would live on them permanently.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Re the dual fuel stove.
I use my stove to cook toast.(inter alia)
I have had conflicting comments from people as to whether dual fuel stoves give a 'petrol' taste to toast.

Any experience /comments?

Regards Philip A

We used to toast on top of the dual fuel stove, with one of those qauze toasters. To me it definitely impregnated some flavour to the toast. ( and whatever else )

Then we went to toasting on the frypan, which was a pain.

Now we have one of these. I bought it in a camping shop for 10 bucks or thereabouts- its great for toast and hot X buns, an no fumes in the food. The handle folds in for transport

Originally Posted by dobbo

Get ye a camp oven and a jaffle iron for each brat

try campfire oven pizzas, roasts, porridge is a good camping breakfast

Jaffle recipes ask the Blknight. He is an expert I am sure If he was allowed to he would live on them permanently.

I bought a double jaffle iron for last trip but yet to use it and a camp oven is on the agenda. Might be a good thread for recipes for both and timings on roasts for example. The pizza sounds good seeing that my youngest is now into pizza.

Mark are you able to cancel order? I rang around for my Oztent and no one seemed to have one....then found a place and had it within 2 days,

Regards

Stevo