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Cooking inside nylon tents is never recommended.  However, if you are extremely careful (stability of stove, splashes eg. hot oil, small children/animals wandering about, hot surfaces near flammable materials) then of course you can.  It's up to you to decide to take the risk or not.  Just bear in mind that if a spark does hit a nylon tent, it will go up like a fireball and you will not have any time to escape....

We cook inside our tent, but (a) it is canvas so wouldn't turn into a fireball quite so quickly (b) we have a designated bit of canvas wall that is coated with something or other, specifically to be used as a cooking area - and a huge mesh window for ventilation. (c) If the weather is set fair, we may well put the stove outdoors anyway.  I don't like the idea of splashes getting on the tent (d) I don't have small animals wandering around (eg dog) and only one well-drilled child (don't touch the stove!  Keep away! etc...)

Sorry if it sounds a bit scaremongery, but you need to know the risks.

the material is made retardent so it wil ignite and burn more slowly but if your tent has a heat source / ignition it will burn and burn very quickly let there be no doubt

it will just burn a little slower than fabric without the treatment

"A tent fire is always a possibility and while no fire is ever going to be a pleasant experience, cotton burns up fast and is gone where nylon catches easily, melts, sticks, and continues to burn with toxic fumes."

"It takes about 30secs for an 8 man patrol tent to burn... the stuff in it takes longer to finish off. A nylon hike tent will burn even faster, and even if it is ""Flame retardant"" it will go up up in seconds. What's worse is that the burning nylon will drape a layer of burning plastic over everything in the tent, including anyone who happens to be inside. "