stove

Malcolm Douglas is a legend in Australia and this is one his useful tips when it comes to cooking around the camp fire - a pair of multi grips. They'll be your new best friend when camping.

The fire bucket has become a favourite of ours - simple, cheap, efficient and a bit of fun to use and make. But if you can't get around to making one, I'll do it for you. See ebay for a bargain.

We got a new Cobb Premium cooker and thought we'd give it a go making pizza. We thought pizza would make a good meal while camping.

How did it turn out?

• The base was perfect, crusty but not burnt
• It took quite some time (the cobb cooks slower than most other styles of bbq's)
• The cheese melted but didn't brown up too well, perhaps if we didn't fill the moat it would?

I was recently shocked by coleman's after sales support.

I scored an old Coleman dual fuel stove. It's a great piece of gear for the family camp. 2 burners running on coleman fuel (aka white gas, or shellite) or unleaded petrol.

The stove was about 10 years old and the pump mechanism wasn't working too well. As I've been using the stove for our home bbq the pump completely died forcing another trip to our local camping super store (ok they are getting to know me personnally now).

I enquired about purchasing a replacement part which they didn't have in stock. So I left the details of the stove with the store to get back to me.

A phone call later and the part was in. Nice quick service but the best bit.

They covered it under warranty!

Now that's a big thumbs up for coleman. A surprise that a manufacturer would stand behind their product like that when so often they seem only interested in the sale.

Note: Coleman does not support this blog