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Personsam7hh
16/8/2015 at 5:37pm
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Is this worth buying? Has anyone had success making their own? We currently sit the stove on a small table and find that on windy days it seems to take longer for the kettle to heat up, so wondered if a wind shield was something we should invest in, but the ones I have seen are about £10 and appear to me made for certain makes of kitchen units. #thanks


Personhelens hens
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I would definitely recommend using a windshield , there are universal windshields
i think i saw them in either halfords or argos
Definitely worth a tenner
as you will probably save on gas if it takes longer to boil the kettle on windy day's

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You could get a small 4 pole windbreak and set it up in a square with the stove inside. Alternatively you could make your own windshield with 3 bits of wood hinged together...or 3 bits of stiff cardboard taped together. If it is a suitcase stove the suitcase makes a good windshield.

I have an electric kettle


PersonTrickyWoo
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As Helen says, definitely worth using a windshield of some sort, whether bought or home-made. We used to stand a twin burner stove on a table but with a windbreak surrounding it on 3 sides (the stove had a lid and 2 folding sides too forming a further windshield). Later we went the whole hog & splashed out on a utility tent and cooked inside that.

Prior to that with a single burner stove, we experimented with various ideas including standing the stove inside a biscuit tin with the lid stood upright, we made a canvas windshield with wire supports that just pushed into the ground, and at one point we had a large catering sized tin which we partially cut down one side and stood the stove inside that (this one was the most effective). We did also buy a folding one (camping gaz) which almost completely surrounded the stove -that one was effective too (cost about £5 but that was a number of years ago). We also at one point used a very cheap quick-erect beach shelter (ours had a zip up front so all our cooking stuff could be zipped away neat & tidy out of sight when finished with).

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PersonTrickyWoo
16/8/2015 at 10:11pm
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Ah, Bob61's post appeared whilst I was typing mine (takes me ages on my tablet!). What I hadn't considered was the modern flat single burner stoves as ours were the more traditional upright ones. Some of the home-made contraptions I mention might not be any good for the flatter stoves.

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PersonBernie47
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I use a Kampa windshield.

I drilled 3 small holes in the table for the feet to fit into and it stays put regardless of wind.

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Windshields are the way to go...

My Dad made one with three rectangles of hardboard, taped together for hinges... folded out around a single burner stove (the old fashioned-one with tripod on top of the canister).

This was used on the ground, or in the back of his estate car.

Wind protection definitely makes the most of your gas and time.

There is an aluminium one, which folds up: I have one from Millets some years back...



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Ditto with the hardboard idea - I used thin mdf and 2" clear Duck tape for standing around a single gas cooker on a table.


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Quote: Originally posted by bridgeywidge on 17/8/2015
Windshields are the way to go...

My Dad made one with three rectangles of hardboard, taped together for hinges... folded out around a single burner stove (the old fashioned-one with tripod on top of the canister).

This was used on the ground, or in the back of his estate car.

Wind protection definitely makes the most of your gas and time.

There is an aluminium one, which folds up: I have one from Millets some years back...



From the picture, this looks identical to the onevwe eventually bought and it is effective.


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