Good Cobb ................

Great feed back Trekkie.

Good to read of positives as well as negatives.

I have had mine for about 12 months now and actually make excuses why I should use the Cobb even at home. Great invention.

The only complaint I have is it costs me a bottle of red every time I fire it up:-)

It's just as well there are more positive comments than negative. I bought one today!!
I have made sure that I have read the instructions and am confident that I know how to work the thing properly now, so I am curious to start using it and see how well it lasts.

Rick.

Rick A,
When you purchase your heatbeads, don't buy the self igniting type as they lose their oompff after a while and don't even light even with firelighters.
Use the heatbead brand, they are very reliable and you can cook a roast with only 5 beads, I know because that's when the buggers didn't light, but it still cooked the meat only 30 mins. longer.
You can start things up quicker by using your pliers to place the basket of beads directly in the fire for 3 or 4 mins.
I welded an extra ring low down on the basket to stop the beads falling out.
Good to be able to cook a roast even when it's raining.
Practise at home first.
Have fun.

A good result Trekkie,
congratulations, from my dealings with him, Brian seems a reasonable person who knows the value of customer relations and the resulting positive feedback in forums such as this.
I hope that one day they can toughen the Cobb up, then it will be a truly outstanding piece of camping equipment.