Cooking

Outdoor Cooking to Complement Your Built-In Kitchen Most motorhomes and campervans have a built-in hob, but experienced vanlifers know that cooking outside is often preferable — it keeps smells and steam out of the vehicle, eliminates condensation issues and lets...

Keep Your Stove Performing Season After Season A well-maintained camping stove lasts for years — even decades in the case of brands like Trangia and Coleman. Neglect it, and you end up with blocked jets, sticky valves and a stove...

What Makes Jetboil Different Jetboil revolutionised camp cooking by integrating the burner, pot and windshield into a single, hyper-efficient unit. Their FluxRing heat exchanger — a corrugated aluminium ring bonded to the base of each Jetboil cup — captures heat...

Starting Simple: Stoves That Just Work Your first camping stove should not require an engineering degree to operate. It should light easily, heat food reliably and not intimidate you when you are standing in a damp field at 7am trying...

Fifty Years of Reliable Cooking in Any Weather The Trangia storm cooker has been made in Sweden since 1951 and the fundamental design has barely changed. That is not because Trangia lacks innovation — it is because the original concept...

Wind Is Your Stove's Worst Enemy A camping stove that performs brilliantly in your kitchen test will halve its output in a 10 mph breeze and become nearly useless in a 20 mph wind. Since most UK campsites are not...

Ultralight Stoves for Hikers and Wild Campers When your home is on your back, every gram matters. Carrying a 3kg double burner up a mountain is absurd — but going without hot food and drinks is miserable. The sweet spot...

The Questions That Actually Matter When Buying a Camping Stove There are hundreds of camping stoves available in the UK, ranging from pocket-sized ultralight burners to full-blown camp kitchens with grills and griddles. The right one depends on how you...

Two Giants of Camping Cooking — Head to Head Walk into any UK outdoor shop and you will find Coleman and Campingaz stoves sitting side by side on the shelf. Both brands have decades of heritage, loyal followings and comprehensive...