windy gas cooking

mmmm, should i start the argument on who should be doing the cookin'

ready to duck..............now! :-O

Easy, mate. Take a piece of fiberglass cloth and wrap around kettle/pot. I am talking about “thick” fiberglass cloth not those flimsy one that used for doing fiberglass. Can be found everywhere for example in Bunnings.

Cheers
Serg

Seems that this is TOOOOOO simple for most lol

1 added extra was a 300mm high 3 sided windbreak.
Works a treat, on the back of the Trak Shak, when we just pull up for a cuppa !

Sorry about that

Cheers
Bucky

Hi Robin, I was looking at the coleman stoves. So you find the fuel ones are better than the gas ones in high wind? What do you mean by 'better controlled' for the gas ones? Is your gas stove a Coleman also?Ta. Doc.

Hi Doc

Have not studied Coleman gas stove, we use 3 different brands of
gas cannister ones. However from what I have seen of a friends one (the new one like a saucepan which opens up to 2 burners - but with no wind break)
Its gas comes out from a lesser number of jets and is much noiser than ours and appears to perform in the wind between the normal gas and the fuel stoves.

The fuel stoves vapourize the fuel with quite a force and can be pumped up to high pressure when needed. This makes them more immune to wind, but the pressure can drop off quickly and their type of operation requires a significant fuel flow for them to work properly hence we have never found
the 2 single burner fuel stoves we have to be suitable for low heat output and my wife won't use them because they can flair up as well.
So we just carry one ,as its small ,for those special occasions it addresses well.

Hi Willie, think I might do something similar. Our setup already has a folding sheet metal windbreak on two sides. I was thinking of making a removable windbreak for the other two sides. Might try this before other options. Where did you get the sheet steel from? Ta . doc.

“Where did you get the sheet steel from?”

Old computer cases abundant in urban area -my main source for bleep quality sheet metal.

Serg

Sheet steel/metal, any half decent hardware store or metal store (Stratco) etc.

As DIO suggested , any harware store has it .

I had great time building my folding wind shield . I am usually such a clutz at building things that when this turned out so well , I was pretty pleased with myself .

Of course there had to be some crticism from over critical engineering type friends - I apparrently used twice ( maybe three times !) as many rivets as were really needed .

willie .