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Personeel28
30/5/2014 at 9:44pm
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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to convice me that the above cooking device is worth keeping.

Having spent the past few days away camping, I thought I'd give it another chance. We've had it for a few years now, but I really can't see any merits in using it. Yes it cooks eventually (I swear a frying pan on the stove would be a lot quicker) and I do find it a real pig to wash up afterwards.

Unless of course I am really not using correctly, which is why I'm throwing it open to you

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Persondavid8858
31/5/2014 at 6:58pm
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We don't think so. We pay for EHU at every site we visit and have now replaced our Cadac with a Teppenyaki grill. It cost all of £19.99 and presents a cooking area of about 2ft by 1ft of non stick covered aluminium.


It has a potentiometer to control the heat setting and will do basically anything a bbq or cadaq will do but without using gas.

After use a wipe down with kitchen towel before it cools completely will clean it up and then it can simply be stowed away again.

It weighs a fraction of the weight of a Cadac with all the attachments and costs less to run.

It looks like this

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Personyork54
31/5/2014 at 7:33pm
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We have bought the Safari chef to take to France this year. We tried it out today , it was fine. Not very big but plenty big enough for 2. The biggie for us is that it weighs next to nothing!!

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31/5/2014 at 9:38pm
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I bought one from Tesco's when they were selling them cheap.
Yes it does the job, eventually. But quicker to use a frying pan and less of a pain to washup.

Didn't use it at all last year.

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Personeel28
31/5/2014 at 10:29pm
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Quote: Originally posted by gulliver7952 on 31/5/2014
I bought one from Tesco's when they were selling them cheap.
Yes it does the job, eventually. But quicker to use a frying pan and less of a pain to washup.

Didn't use it at all last year.


Glad I'm not the only one then

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Personyork54
31/5/2014 at 10:49pm
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When it's 39 degrees, a pan on the stove isn't an option!!  That's how hot it was in the Dordogne last year!!  It's brill to cook outside!!

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01/6/2014 at 8:25am
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I downgraded from the bigger cadac to the safari chef recently as I have rune out if room even with a bigger roof box, and I now need to cook brekkie in shifts, however I am camping so what's the rush. The big advantage for me though is how small it is and the fact that you can also use it as a bbq ( albeit a gas one) and an oven. My kids expect a top notch nan bread with their camping currys these days. We also use it for fish fingers, garlic breads, etc.


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Persongriff10553
01/6/2014 at 9:05am
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The cadac safari chef LP is a great little BBQ etc. Easy to clean, versatile, cooks the food well and doesn`t take up much room. The HP version, (the one Tesco were selling off), doesn`t seem as powerful.

As some have said you could use a frying pan, which may be quicker and will also stink your unit out, but each to their own.

Part of camping is to relax and enjoy yourself, but if you must rush your cooking then you most likely will go for the frying pan IMHO

Griff


Personyork54
01/6/2014 at 9:28am
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We bought ours at the NEC show last year. Would it say on it which model it was? You have me thinking now!! We run it off a calor lite bottle, would that be LP? It seems to cook ok.

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Persongriff10553
01/6/2014 at 9:46am
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LP runs off gas bottles, (like campingaz 907 etc.), and HP runs off the screw in gas cartridges.

You can run the LP off screw in cartridges via an adapter, but you can`t use a gas bottle on the HP ones.

Adapter for LP to HP cartridge operation.

Griff


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Personyork54
01/6/2014 at 10:00am
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Thanks Griff we run ours off the calor gas we use in the van! Sorry if I sounded a bit vague!!

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Only daft questions are the ones that aren`t asked !!

Griff



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