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I have always cooked in the tent as i have a 6ft height, as long as you don't cook next to the sides of tent it should be fine.

alison 46

For me it depends, either under the tarp or in the tent.  In my own reasoning cooking in the extension is exactly the same as in the tent, as its attached to the tent.  Some here will have a utilities tent to cook in away from main tent.

Heather

I use a cabanon cook tent come rain or shine

That is the exactly the same as my tent but it is a better photo that the one i have

it is a tent made by cabanon as a kitchen tent it is all plastic coated canvas so it is all wipe down and it has a window at the back that can be opened for ventilation

the one downside is they are very hard to find

but i would look at some form of kitchen tent or cook tent that takes the cooking away from the main tent

up until this year we've allways cooked under a tarp that my husband has pitched to perfection, bless him! but since getting our new tent this year that has plenty of room/height to it we now cook inside the tent, though its not the most pc way of cooking we allways have the tent well vented, the dogs tied up well away from it and we make sure we are properly pegged down outside and the cooker stand weighted down properly in case of it being a tad windy!

the above is for brekkie and lunches but in the eve we'll get a good fire going and put our old bbq grate over the top to cook on! (though i'm working on chris to let me buy a dutch oven/trypod)

Quote: Originally posted by force ten on 30/5/2011

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I use a cabanon cook tent come rain or shine

That is the exactly the same as my tent but it is a better photo that the one i have

it is a tent made by cabanon as a kitchen tent it is all plastic coated canvas so it is all wipe down and it has a window at the back that can be opened for ventilation

the one downside is they are very hard to find

but i would look at some form of kitchen tent or cook tent that takes the cooking away from the main tent

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Quote: Originally posted by liz elliott on 30/5/2011

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my partner has gone fishing this weekend in his bivvy and i brought him a large fishing umbrella with the sides on for xmas last year,well as its a wet weekend,hes put it up for the first time since buying it,went to visit him round the lake this afternoon and my first thought was hmmm i could use that for cooking under,so hes lost his xmas pressie lol could put my wind break round the front and im fully enclosed from the elements then

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Hi camping100

It's around 2.1m x 1.5m which is  smaller that the 2mtr sq pop up gazebo i was originally going to use, some utility/day tents are ever larger than that. The campsite we are going to in Auguest said  "Most people just cook outside their tents or put up a gazebo (no charge).  We have a lot of windbreaks too.  It all depends on the weather!". Also read on this site some campsites were banning Gazebo's because some people did'nt peg them down correctly, think someone said they did'nt need a lot of wind to get then airborne. When they came back to earth they can do a lot of damage to tents,cars and people . Think someone discribed tham as a kite with four metal legs . The Cabanon NR7 kitchen tent i picked up Saturday is really stable, we had it up in the garden with no pegs while i was checking it out and it was quite blustery. That's the reason we wanted one, we don't want to cook in our tent or have to clean up every time the weather turned bad. We was looking for a utility tent that would stay put. Thanks again force ten.

Steven

Quote: Originally posted by camping100 on 30/5/2011

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What are the measurements of this cook tent? Surely by having two tents you will be charged two pitch fees ?

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The tent is 210cms wide by 140cm deep and is standing height

I have never been charged extra for pitching it and as long as it is within the confines of your pitch then you will not be charged for two pitches

some sites will charge extra for a utility tent or a cook ten but i tend to avoid sites that charge for each additional item that you have on the pitch

Quote: Originally posted by camping100 on 30/5/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by liz elliott on 30/5/2011

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my partner has gone fishing this weekend in his bivvy and i brought him a large fishing umbrella with the sides on for xmas last year,well as its a wet weekend,hes put it up for the first time since buying it,went to visit him round the lake this afternoon and my first thought was hmmm i could use that for cooking under,so hes lost his xmas pressie lol could put my wind break round the front and im fully enclosed from the elements then

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Never thought of a fishing umbrella do you have any photos or a link to where you can get it on the web thanks

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Quote: Originally posted by camping100 on 30/5/2011

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why can you cook in a trailer tent awning but not a tent is the material different

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Trailer tents are nearly always made of canvas. We cook in our canvas frame tents, but it's far more risky to cook in a synthetic tent.

I used to just get wet - or try and cook and hold an umbrella at the same time. I'd rather be wet than risk have my tent go up in flames.

I then used to cook under the canopy on my windbreak which worked really well.

This year I have invested in a seperate utility tent.