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I am with you on this one.  We have the safari Chef, & I thought I was alone in saying it is dreadful.  It will not boil water!  That said, the flame should not be yellow.  That is a sign of incomplete combustion.  The flame will make lots of soot as well as potentially lethal carbon monoxide.  It should burn with a clean blue flame like any other gas stove.  It sounds like the burner may have god dirt in it

Steve.

Quote: Originally posted by andyrbruce on 05/7/2009

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Silly question, for which I apologize in advance and mean no offence, but you have opened the bottle tap fully and adjusted the one on the legs of the Cadac. I always get a blue flame on mine and have to close gas tap down on the Cadac or stuff burns.

Happy summer holidays all!

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Sounds as if you have had the same problem as us with the Easy Chef. We also had yellow flames and no heat on our second use of it. Also food had sooty particles over it.

OH being a bit handy at fixing things took it apart and it had a plastic blue baffle in the base of the central stem and it had melted! He thinks it is a design fault and maybe because it was a bit windy it had blow back which melted the baffle.

We were really disappointed as we have friends who have had theirs for years and swear by it - also the reviews on here. We took it back to Towsure and we exchanged it for the Carri Chef - we prefer this model as its got a self ignition button it has also a numbered gas control - so far so good and we have used it a lot since.

Hope this helps