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02/10/2008 at 3:12pm
Location: Norfolk
Outfit: Outwell Montana 6
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Hi,
We have a single burner cooker we use inside the monty, on a small table away from the walls, but only to do a cuppa during the night, as our main cooker and bits are outside. We brought the canopy for the monty 6, and cook under that mainly.
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02/10/2008 at 4:10pm
Location: The Love Shack
Outfit: BearLake 6 and a hot water bottle.
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We Have a Sunvalley 6 and cook in the tent,just keep your kitchen unit and cooker away from the wall a bit. We have always cooked inside every tent we have had.I think if I had small children though then I would get a utility tent just to be on the safe side.
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02/10/2008 at 4:13pm
Location: Cheshire
Outfit: Elddis Avante 636
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We bought our Monty at the end of August and for our first trip we cooked inside but we weren't at all comfortable with it especially with our young children milling about around us but also for the fabric of the tent. We bought the extension which is like the canopy but has sides on it and now cook in there with a windbreak in front of it - I'd really recommend the extension its a really useful addition to the tent we got ours second hand on Ebay.
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02/10/2008 at 6:46pm
Location: north-east-lincolnshire
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we have the extension and its like cooking inside you still stay dry if its raining, also cooking equipment can take up lots of room in the tent so the extension creates extra space leaving loads of room in monty, we had 10 of us sat comfortable in the monty on deckchairs we couldnt have done that with a big cooker stand.
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02/10/2008 at 7:55pm
Location: Cumbria
Outfit: Outwell Montana 6
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I agree with gilly+fiona the extension ia a worthwhile addition to the monty,creates more space and keeps the worse of the weather off the front of the tent.
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03/10/2008 at 8:37am
Location: Essex
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we cook inside making sure the cooker is away from the walls and towards the middle so there is maximum distance between the cooker and roof. Also open the door a little to provide some ventilation to circulate the hot air that gathers in the top of the tent while cooking.
We haven't been anywhere warm enough to cook outside yet!
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03/10/2008 at 1:07pm
Location: Swadlincote Derbyshire
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We cook in our Monty 6 but then again our children are older and quite sensible. Even though we have a screen around the cooker I still always add a bit of tin foil above this to protect the tent from splashes etc Have a look at my gallery images although be warned we're not the tidiest campers lol!
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06/10/2008 at 11:19am
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We always cook inside. No probs. If you have kids just watch them and keep them well away. We try to cook with the window open to cut down on the condensation. To be honest, we've had no bother with that.
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09/10/2008 at 7:26pm
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We have a monty 6 and I have to say the extention is well worth it to cook under and keeping the worst of the weather off when raining however when the winds are strong I highly recommend taking it down as we did have a few problems with ours. Wasn't banking on having to take this down and had to resort to cooking inside. We used the awning part at low level which worked really well I also felt it was a bit safer as it out the way of our two young children. Its also handy to be able to make a cupa when your not ready for the outside world first thing in the morning.
Can't wait until next season come rain or shine........
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09/10/2008 at 7:40pm
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I used to take the kids camping in an old Lichfield ridge style tent made of polyester and always cooked in it
Didn't have internet then to tell me I wasn't allowed to!
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09/10/2008 at 9:02pm
Location: Swadlincote Derbyshire
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I think like most matters concerning safety it just boils down to common sense. If you have small children and/or hyperactive dogs then maybe cooking inside isn't necessarily the safest option but with care cooking inside shouldn't be a no go. We always have a bucket of water on hand when we cook in our tent too.
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