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14/9/2021 at 8:35am
Location: Devizes Wiltshire
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You could consider having a separate utility tent for cooking purposes, which may be easier to put up and it can stay up all the time, providing the site allows such a tent, either without incurring a surcharge, or at a small price.
You could also consider rigging a tarp over the entrance using a ridge line method and karabina for ease of removal, plus a windbreak on one side.
Personally, I would not recommending having a tarp up unattended including overnight, unless I can be certain of reasonable weather with light winds, having learnt from past experience first hand.
I would not recommend a gazebo as I nearly lost mine along with my first ever tent due to high winds. A Coleman Event Shelter is a much better alternative.
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14/9/2021 at 10:12am
Location: Isle of Mull
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I've used a fishing brolly with zipped side panels in wet/windy weather with my pop-up tent. I can sit inside it whilst cooking and yet it folds down when not in use. Also takes up little space in the car.
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14/9/2021 at 10:24am
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It really isn't "naughty" to use a stove in the lobby area between the bedrooms. Perfectly sensible as long as you are.
The alternative if you have a hatchback is to use the boot of the car. Its what we do when we make a brew whilst touring and we saw someone cooking up a one pot meal in a car park using this method.
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14/9/2021 at 11:36am
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As a minimum you need a cooker windshield, otherwise when outside, as you have found, even the gentlest of breezes just blows all the heat away from the pans and wastes gas and prolongs the cooking/heating process, at the extreme cooking/heating just doesn't happen at all and the flame is often repeatedly blown out! A tarp may keep the rain off you but it isn't that much of a windbreak, you need something closer fitting around the cooker, or more enclosing like the fishing umbrella mentioned.
The exact model windshield isn't that important, and obviously needs to suit your cooker type/size, don't overlook that you need to reach pot handles, so a too tall totally enclosing one is a real handicap!
Most tents/shelters etc. are only flame retardant at best, that only means they stop burning when initiating flame is removed, it doesn't mean they won't catch fire in the first place! One of the reasons why cooking inside is considered a no no, the other has to be mentioned, and of course is the risk of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning from a flame in a un-ventilated enclosed space. Any cooker in a fabric shelter needs to be well clear of the fabric on all sides and even more so above.
Plenty of commercial cooker windshields on the market, a few here: https://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/kitchen-cookware/camping-kitchen-equipment-r104/c........
I have seen improvised ones made from whatever's at hand, like cardboard boxes, AND I've seen them catch fire! - a bit of common sense does help! 
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