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Subject Topic: cobb - to buy or not to buy?!
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28/5/2008 at 10:54am
 Location: Market Harborough
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Quote: Originally posted by tallman on 27/5/2008

Hi AndyVine When you say you put food to keep warm on the Cobb lid,do you mean the dome?      Hi tentmad We are talking Cobb Barbeque food thats worth waiting for. Not gassed Grub!                                                                                                            


Yeah we picked up a small trangia mess tin with lid from a charity shop must be abou 7" x 3.5" x 2" deep and it sits nicely on the flat part of the dome, you could do similar with the tin foil containers you can buy.

When we do breakfast I do the sausage and bacon first together then stick um in the tin to keep warm while I do the mushrooms and eggs, I also have a small round tin that I stick a few beans into and drop into the frying pan to heat up with the eggs and mushrooms, this takes from lighting to eating less than an hour, which gives us time while its cooking to do the morning jobs such as topping up the water and emptying toilet and waste etc.



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28/5/2008 at 3:49pm
 Location: hereford
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Thanks Andy what a useful tip. You desarve a bottle of Hereford cider for that!


28/5/2008 at 4:38pm
 Location: yorkshire
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we cook for a family of 6 on the cobb, the kids are young but eat loads! all so for quick cooking use the cobbstones, hold a gas lighter over the middle wait a few mins for the smoke to go and your away cooking! we were all fed and full with in an hour on saturday!

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28/5/2008 at 5:06pm
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Quote: Originally posted by tentmad on 27/5/2008

ok im going to be the one to say it but if you want to be able to eat that day then dont buy a cobb get a cadac!!!   nah nah de nah nah big al i beat you to it ok!!! lol

im surprised if he dont come on here and tel youthe same thing, they are just to slow to cope with feeding five of you, and dont think you would get breakfast done unless you got up very early to lite it. best take a box of cereal and some milk, you wont go hungry then!!


Using a cobblestone you can have your cobb ready to cook in about 10 minutes, 5 minutes for the flames to die down and cobblestone to turn grey and another 5 to heat the griddle to perfect temperature. 

You're camping for heavens sake, you don't need fast food, it can be a leisurely process, there's no rush to be off the site as quick as you can in the morning. 

Nothing beats the taste of roast chicken cooked on a cobb.



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Kate

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28/5/2008 at 5:56pm
 Location: Yorkshire
 Outfit:  Swift Charisma 540 Caravan
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I think you are 'pushing' it a bit...to be feeding 5 of you ...unless you want to be cooking in stages all day...we use the cobb and a cadac...but it's what you get used to init...

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The lesson is : NEVER TRY .


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28/5/2008 at 6:34pm
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Quote: Originally posted by AndyVines on 28/5/2008
Quote: Originally posted by tallman on 27/5/2008

Hi AndyVine When you say you put food to keep warm on the Cobb lid,do you mean the dome?      Hi tentmad We are talking Cobb Barbeque food thats worth waiting for. Not gassed Grub!                                                                                                            


Yeah we picked up a small trangia mess tin with lid from a charity shop must be abou 7" x 3.5" x 2" deep and it sits nicely on the flat part of the dome, you could do similar with the tin foil containers you can buy.

When we do breakfast I do the sausage and bacon first together then stick um in the tin to keep warm while I do the mushrooms and eggs, I also have a small round tin that I stick a few beans into and drop into the frying pan to heat up with the eggs and mushrooms, this takes from lighting to eating less than an hour, which gives us time while its cooking to do the morning jobs such as topping up the water and emptying toilet and waste etc.


an hour to cook and eat your breakfast!!! good god we can have ours and have the awning took down and van on the back of the  car in that time if we wanted to!!!



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