Cooking Kit on the road

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So I currently have the following to go into my camper:

500W Induction Hob - I found this very handy for quick heating of a kettle, soups, etc. in the last year. On my new conversion I have doubled the solar array power and battery bank power so I will be able to use this much more extensively. It is a portable one, so I could also use it outside as well :)
Quite remarkably, I have found that just about all the pans I have for the camper work on the induction top as well.

750W George Forman Fat Reducing Grill - not used one of these for quite a few years, but when I had one before I found it really good and expect this to work well on the road.

180W Swan Slow Cooker - I use a slow cooker at home all the time and find it dead handy and the meals really good. I reckon this will be really good to use when away on a long journey, sightseeing to be able to come back to a ready made meal, or like I do quite a few weekends, working at festivals, so at the end of a busy day you have your dinner all ready for you :banana:

I also have one of those £10 portable cartridge stoves which are brilliant I think and will be keeping that for outside use.


But other kit on the radar and worth getting?

Heard good things about the Remoska oven - only 400W and meant to be great. is it worth paying upto £150 (lakeland price) for one of these? could be used at home as well of course, but already had a oven AND a halogen oven so will it be just other gadget?
Watching some of the US YouTube channels, the "InstantPot" seems to be a must-have with a lot of those people - typically those in the full-size RVs. These are cheaper then the Remoskas and seem very versatile (so maybe a better investment then a Remoska?) - only downside for me is the power. I want to be able to use anything I get off-grid and have a self-imposed 1000W limit to avoid overly stressing the battery bank. The Instant Pots I think are 1000W so could creep in just (but borderline)

PS, not interested in getting a Microwave. Don't have anything against them and I use one at home occasionally, but don't want one on the road.

Away from the Sockets, the Cadac Safari Chef 2 looks really good - I nearly bought one from a festival last August after seeing one and then reading reviews, but they were sold out. (FWIW, I intend to only use electric cooking inside the van and any gas cooking is outside using small canisters like a CG907 at the biggest).


Comments on above and suggestions welcome :)
 
I use a Cobb BBQ sometimes, although usually when tent camping. You can cook a whole roast dinner in it, marvellous!

I agree about the £10 camping stoves, they are great, just beware not to use too big a pan on them, it can be dangerous.
 
We use a Remoska 400W, really happy with it and very versatile. Keep checking Lakelands eBay store, they sell returned ones there (think they refer to them as refurbished or something similar) at a much reduced price. There are A grade and B grade returns, we bought an A grade for £94 ish, not a mark on it, original packaging and never used. The B grade ones apparently may have been used or may have slight marks/scratches but cost a little less again. They aren't always available but come up now and then.

We also have a Cadac Safari Chef 2, its very good and also a recommendation from us, wouldn't be without it.👍
 
Robmac said:
I use a Cobb BBQ sometimes, although usually when tent camping. You can cook a whole roast dinner in it, marvellous!

I agree about the £10 camping stoves, they are great, just beware not to use too big a pan on them, it can be dangerous.
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I have seen good words on the Cobb BBQ :)

your mention reminded me there is another cooking option I have and in fact used the last time I was at a festival ...
I have a Frontier Stove, like quite a few folk here, and that is dead handy for cooking on as well as warming yourself :heart:
 
AllanD said:
We use a Remoska 400W, really happy with it and very versatile. Keep checking Lakelands eBay store, they sell returned ones there (think they refer to them as refurbished or something similar) at a much reduced price. There are A grade and B grade returns, we bought an A grade for £94 ish, not a mark on it, original packaging and never used. The B grade ones apparently may have been used or may have slight marks/scratches but cost a little less again. They aren't always available but come up now and then.

We also have a Cadac Safari Chef 2, its very good and also a recommendation from us, wouldn't be without it.👍
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Thanks :)

Good tip on the A/B grade units - I am not in a major rush to get one so can bide my time and hopefully nab a bargain :cool1:
 
wildebus said:
I have seen good words on the Cobb BBQ :)

your mention reminded me there is another cooking option I have and in fact used the last time I was at a festival ...
I have a Frontier Stove, like quite a few folk here, and that is dead handy for cooking on as well as warming yourself :heart:
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I too have a frontier stove!

In fact I am a bit of a stove junkie. I also love cooking outside on my little Honey stove or Woodgas stove. I keep a campfire kettle and Dutch oven just for this purpose.
 
Slow cookers are fab for campervan use.... either cooked before hand OR cooking on the go (crusty bread rolls sat on lid then wrapped in tinfoil)
ready to eat meal when you land...
Microwave gets used regularly (perfect crispy bacon) and heating frozen stuff OR ready meals occasionally.
Electric toaster with toaster pockets work well for spring rolls/bajis etc.

And Coleman petrol cooker with ammo box oven for home made pizza/bread/cakes etc etc.

 
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I don't have a Cadac, but I have something very similar.

It came complete with a huge enamelled Paella dish, which is brilliant for outside cooking. We once cooked Curried Goat for about 25 people at one of the meets on it! We can also cook huge breakfasts with everything in the pan at the same time.

I love that sort of cooking outside, huge burner, huge pans and just chuck everything in. It's a bloke thing.

(It's also an Annie thing!)
 
Robmac said:
I don't have a Cadac, but I have something very similar.

It came complete with a huge enamelled Paella dish, which is brilliant for outside cooking. We once cooked Curried Goat for about 25 people at one of the meets on it! We can also cook huge breakfasts with everything in the pan at the same time.

I love that sort of cooking outside, huge burner, huge pans and just chuck everything in. It's a bloke thing.

(It's also an Annie thing!)
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I love cooking Paella for a big group of folks... I bought this metre accross monster for cooking for 60 odd folks at our Classic landrover events.

 
Found a few pictures of meals we cooked on our Cadac.

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Salmon fillets and red pepper

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Moules Marinière

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Mixed seafood Paella

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AllanD said:
Found a few pictures of meals we cooked on our Cadac.


Salmon fillets and red pepper

Moules Marinière

Mixed seafood Paella

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Enough with the seafood already Allan, I'm an addict and you're making me hungry.

Looks cracking!
 
Another vote for the Cadac Carri Chef 2. I use it at every opportunity to cook outside. I would thoroughly recommend it.
 
You must have big vans to get all that lot in.

My van has 2 gas rings and a grill. I take a frying pan with lid, small saucepan with lid, milk pan, collapsible kettle.

No room for any more.
 
Caz said:
You must have big vans to get all that lot in.

My van has 2 gas rings and a grill. I take a frying pan with lid, small saucepan with lid, milk pan, collapsible kettle.

No room for any more.
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That is a good point and you do need to select your kit to suit the space available.
I used to have a VW T4, so same base as your camper looking at your Avatar, and in that I had a single burner hob, no sink and a compressor coolbox and one cupboard for pots and gas, so was a bit compact.
now via a T5 gone much bigger with a high top VW LT (so same as a Mk1 Sprinter) LWB, so gone from around 4.6M to 6.5M length so freed up a lot of extra room for handy "stuff" :cool1:
 
Well, invested in a Cadac Safari Chef 2 today :dance:

eBay did a special "20% off" voucher code for just the one day and while wondering if I needed anything, remembered I was looking at one of these - and at £68 after the discount seemed like a good deal :dog:
 
We bought a camper with a stove and oven in it so use that in the van and as Caz said we also have 2 pans and a frying pan for the stove, a baking tray and an oven dish for the oven. We are never on hook up (A waste of money for us but no choice all new vans come with it) so no hot plates, slow cookers etc.

For outdoor cooking i've had a BBQ point fitted and we have a Camping gaz 3 in 1.
 
We're hardly ever on hook up, so use the gas. a three tier steamer, so everything cooks on one burner, and a deep frying pan. Got one of those gaz burners for outside. Used to,take quite a bit of kitchen kit, but didn't use much of it, so whittled it,down to the basics. Only electric thing we take is a kettle for the rare occasions we have power.
 
We very rarely use EHU

Even if on a camp-site (rarely)..
So medium sized wok-type frying pan for Stir-frys so veg included
Saucepan for Rice or potatoes
Use both on our cooker (3 ring but mostly 1)

Cadac BBQ if weather is OK

Camp (Dutch) oven if we can do a fire
 
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