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I have a silicon heat resistant mat for my stove. It's flexible and has measurements up the side so I think it's for rolling out pastry. I got it in a supermarket. Anyway it's slightly bigger than A4 paper size and I keep it in the case folded in half.

This means I can set it on a table or the grass and the heat won't be damaging either a plastic table or scorching the grass. I have one of these fabric tables and I used the silicone mat with the stove on top of that!

Hi,

Tesco are doing a mini camp table (folding) for around £7. This would keep the cooker a few inches off the ground.

Don't put it on a groundsheet or anything flammable like dried grass. A baking tray would be a good flameproof base. Remember too that cookers on the ground are vunerable to being walked into or tripped over by small kids racing around so never leave them unattended for one second...even if they're not lit, they can still be hot or the contents can be hot. Also you'll need a windshield of some sort or it will take about an hour to boil a kettle, and your gas will barely last that long.

I have adapted the plastic greenhouse fittings to make a small table or two. with a wire tray on top it is stable enough for putting a cooker on and wide enough to put the cover up as a windbreak.     forget the cover and make 3 tables lol

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Ours sit on a backpackers roll up aluminium table during use (folds up tiny)

We also have a couple of plastic bulldog clips (from a cheap stationers) which have holes in their handles and clip to the edge of the table. The pegs for the cheap fold out windshields (as in Wilkinsons) fit through the holes, so we have effective windshields around them too.

We have in the past used them directly on grass or a campsite's wooden picnic tables, but we wouldn't use them on a groundsheet.

BTW we bought some of the door edging strip for a Mini (the car that is) and cut it in strips to slot over the sharp feet of the table when using it in the tent (just in case it damages the groundsheet). The steel reinforcing inside the edging strip keeps it tightly in place.