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15/8/2023 at 12:16pm
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Based on my earlier reply of how to calculate usage, as a rough empirical guide, last year tent camping in France, 2 of us were fully self catering with a gas fridge and 2 burner stove (no grill) for 4 day camp, we used 1.5Kg of gas from a full 5Kg cylinder, which turned out to be about 70% of my calculated estimate of use, mainly because the fridge didn't need to be on Max setting. I needed to know fairly accurately what my gas usage would be to decide which gas cylinder to take (had a choice of types and sizes available), as no refills for some types available in France, so needed to be sure we wouldn't run out if non-refillable cylinder taken!
As mentioned in above posts, the grills are next to useless and waste huge amounts of your gas, even the grill in my caravan on a otherwise perfectly decent 3 burner/oven/grill cooker is near useless, nothing like a domestic cooker! If you want toast, better off with a hob type toaster accessory, if you want meat/veg get a griddle type pan on the hob.
Probably worth mentioning that beginning of the year, Calor discontinued a number of their smaller cylinder sizes that were very popular with campers and refills are no longer available, so if you acquired your gas cylinder some time ago or someone passed an old one on to you, check you can still get refills! https://www.calor.co.uk/news-and-views/press-release-cylinder-range
Flogas do a range of smaller cylinders that are a good alternative, but the regulator fittings often differ to Calor and may require a new one. https://www.flogas.co.uk/shop/category/all-cylinders
Campingaz cylinders are a convenient physical size for tenters, but tiny capacity (only 2.75Kg) and obscenely expensive per Kg of gas compared with other refillable cylinders! They are also Butane gas which is only suitable for summer use as won't produce gas below about 3C!
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