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Nothing seems to go right for us, I have just got back to work after 5 months and what happens, my youngest (16yrs) daughter manages to set my cooker on fire,. Luckily we were in at the time, the firemen still came out to check it, even though the flames had gone out before they came, it had blown the glass door of the grill out.

She had been using the grill and then closed the door but forgot to knock off the gas.

We thought the smell was the bonfires over the allotments, until my daughter went into the kitchen.

Anyhow thankfully nothing else damaged and no one hurt.

I am so pleased we have a camping stove, it has really come in handy.

We used ours for several months in the utility room and had to walk our meals outside and back in the front door to eat in the lounge when we had our kitchen extended and kitted out! Invaluable!

Certainly discovered a few camping recipies then as we only had a single suitcase stove at the time.

Quote: Originally posted by petemillis on 28/8/2010

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Flippin' teenage daughters! This is the sort of thing I dread with my 16 year old girl. Often the smell of burning in the kitchen when she's cooking herself something and walked off.

Certainly wouldn't be without a camping stove :)

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Lynn, you might want to make sure that you have a smoke detector somewhere that will pick up any future kitchen fires....

I am not sure I would take one camping, though!

We have one in the living room, found out son had taken the battery out and not put the battery back. Things could of been a lot worse. The firemen put two new ones in, one that detects smoke first and one that detects flames.

Wouldn't like to think of being in a flat when there is a fire and other high rised buildings, very scary.

Got to be really careful.

Gives us a chance to get used to the stove before we go camping in November. We only had a single one last time.

My Hubby put three slices of bacon under the grill, went back through to his desk...and I came in an hour later to find out just how far three slices of bacon can spread if reduced to carbon and carried on wafts of burning bacon fat round the kitchen. A Long Way, that's how far.

Just be careful using a camping cooker indoors with limited ventilation. And remember to change the gas outside, eh?

We lent ours to our neighbour when we went through a phase of having lots of power cuts and they had a little baby and no way of heating bottles or water for his bath. They were very grateful.

Mr Fran got them a CO monitor, as we were a bit worried about them using it indoors.