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Hi Bruce,

I love my Cobb as well, but only use it for Roasts and baking bread, etc.
I find the length of time taken to fire it up for cooking breakfast to be not worthwhile.

Instead, I have a two burner Coleman with a hotplate that cooks Bacon and Eggs in no time flat and with much less hassle.

I am interested in your use of the Cobble Stones as fuel. My own experience with them is that too much heat was generated, and I have settled on six or seven heatbeads, which while taking about 20 minutes or so to fully burn evenly, allow better heat control, by adding or removing one heatbead at a time.

As far as other cookers are concerned, both a BabyQ, or a Zeigler & Brown equivalent take up a fair bit of room to cart around and they are quite heavy.

I have a Coleman Road Trip Grill which works well, but is a PITA to carry and store, so that now sits home in the shed.
One of my mates who travels with us, owns a BabyQ but leaves that home as well do to the above reason.
My SIL owns a Z&B and swears by it, but they tend to use that at home for cooking outdoors, rather than travel with it.

I find the combination of the Cobb Cooker, the two burner stove with hotplate and my trusty Hillbilly Camp Oven cover every type of cooking I am likely to perform while camping.
The Cobb is good when there is just two to four of us, but with 6 folk often traveling and camping together, the Camp Oven is often deployed. Sometimes I even have a roast of one meat cooking in the CO, while another is cooking in the Cobb. Both have veggie rings too. The Camp Oven has the advantage of being able to operate on a gas ring, so in times of fire bans in place, I am still able to cook using gas. (Not as much fun as heatbeads or campfire coals though)

Everyone of us will experiment and come up with our own combination of cooking appliances and change until they arrive at the best solution for themselves, at the time.

Even though the majority of our traveling now employs the use of our offroad campervan, all cooking is still done outside on one or more of our cooking devices, because this suits us the best. Our traveling friends have similar two burner stoves
We have some great meals while camping. No freeze dried, regurgitated food offerings, cooked over a single burner ring, for us:-)

Phew, you thought your Post was long!

Bruce, this may not be of any help to you or maybe it could be.

We always travel with my best mate, so we have 2 of everything when it come to cooking in the bush. These items live in our trucks and campers.

We both own a baby Q, fry pan and single butane gas burner each, its is all we need. Cooking for up to 6 for breakfast is very easy, even more people if you wanted too. 2 frypans going to cook all the bacon, then keep it warm in a aluminium tray in the baby Q whilst the eggs are cooking in the pans. The grill in the Jayco does the toast. Everyone eats a hot breakfast together at the same time.................fail proof.

We love our baby Q.

The only time we use baby Q's is for meat in one, veggies in the other.

P.S. No post can be to long when it comes to food and cooking :)

Personally prefer the build quality of the weber over the ziggy, plus weber has a 25 year warranty, which they fully support, I have a q320 (4 years old) and the grill plates were rusting badly after following webers cleaning directions, rang weber with the serial number, explained the situation and was told they have changed the cleaning method, sent me a complete set of enamaled grill plates, free of charge, delivered to the door 3 days later by courier, imho you can't beat product back up like that.

You mention the weber does not have a high lid for roasting, or thermomitor.

Have another look at the weber online store. baby q has two models. One has a high lid for roasting and thermometer.

I have one of these and I use it for roast pork fora family of 5.

not all stores can sell these models.