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Subject Topic: Bell Tent - how do cook in it? Post Reply Post New Topic
Personu37130z
02/2/2012 at 12:23pm
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Hi folks,
Currently I have a Monty 6 with the extension, which I use as the kitchen / wet clothes area / dinning area. I'm looking at going for a 5m bell tent ( Me, OH and 2 kids) but was wondering where you do your cooking when it's wet and windy?

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valbarley
02/2/2012 at 12:30pm
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in a pop up next to it!

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Personu37130z
02/2/2012 at 12:37pm
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Thanks Val, was hoping for a solution /ideas so that we didnt get wet every time we needed a cuppa lol!

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 I would make a cuppa in ours if I really had no choice! Wouldnt ever cook in it though. We have a pop-up tent like Val


PersonWaynetod
02/2/2012 at 1:26pm
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Wasn`t easy getting the table on the car roof [/IMG]

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Quote: Originally posted by u37130z on 02/2/2012
Thanks Val, was hoping for a solution /ideas so that we didnt get wet every time we needed a cuppa lol!

ahhh but! tea making facilities and biscuits inside!

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Have you got an awning or porch at the front? Could cook under that?


Personraf48
02/2/2012 at 6:13pm
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I always cooked in mine, I have a large camping table, which is positioned beside the pole, facing towards the door. It's well away from the sides so no problems with fat splashing the fabric. The main difference is that I had a five and four meter tent, and I am solo camping.  When my wife was with me, we used a utility tent to store stuff and cook in. Not really that safe with children in a tent.

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Personmorgz84
02/2/2012 at 7:22pm
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I've been looking at 3M Bell tent. Has anyone cooked in these on a standing height cooker stand in the middle?

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I would vote for a utility tent, although that means getting wet when it's raining. Just seconds after this picture was taken (and a split second BEFORE I lit the match to start the little gas stove!) my daughter rose up, stumbled over the guy line, and the whole tarp construction came down on our "kitchen". I am more careful since that experience.


PersonmissElaineous
02/2/2012 at 8:59pm
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Quote: Originally posted by morgz84 on 02/2/2012

I've been looking at 3M Bell tent. Has anyone cooked in these on a standing height cooker stand in the middle?

Not standing height, but I use a stove on a low table by the pole and sit on the floor.  I don't cook as such, but warm things up and boil the kettle. 



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valbarley
02/2/2012 at 9:38pm
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If you look at the space available in the 3m centre, there wouldnt be a lot of room - think it would mean taking it down after use


Personvictoria1
03/2/2012 at 6:11pm
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I think that, if your car was beside your pitch, you could use your car as a sort of mobile kitchen. If you look at the American idea of 'Tailgating' (not the tailgating as we know it, but having a mobile catering unit out of the back of your car) then you can see that a quick to put up table, a stove or table top grill like the Partygrill, and a coolbox in the boot is completely doable. I've recently got a new car and one of the things I'm delighted with is that there's a cigarette lighter socket in the boot for my electric cool box. Also it's an estate so there's seating space on the bumper. I'm thinking of rigging a tarp up over the open boot lid, two poles and my quechua tarp for a quick to put up shelter. As long as there's space between the car and the stove it should be safe.


PersonPaper clip
04/2/2012 at 1:15pm
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We use one of the 4 metre 'wedding bells' as a utility and cooking tent and general dumping ground. With the kitchen stand positioned near the pole there is just enough standing height to cook and i am only 5'3 so I think a 3m would definitely not have enough head room for stand up cooking. I have cooked on the wood burner in the 5m but nothing that would risk splashing the fabric.

When we have friends using the 4m we normally rig up a windbreak and tarp arrangement as a kitchen area.

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