Your Complete Guide to Outdoor Cooking in the UK
There’s a very specific kind of dread that sets in around 6am on a January bivvy, hands numb, when you realise your gas canister has gone from “roaring blue flame” to “sad, sputtering whisper” purely because the temperature dropped below freezing overnight. Butane simply gives up the fight below about 5°C, and it’s not being … Read more
Somewhere on a frozen col in the Cairngorms, or a dusty roadside outside Bishkek, every expedition cook eventually asks the same grumpy question: will this thing actually light? A multi fuel stove for expedition camping is the answer most seasoned mountaineers, overlanders and long-distance cyclists arrive at sooner or later, because it’s the one piece … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of heartbreak that comes from watching your gas canister sputter out halfway through boiling water for a brew, somewhere on a Welsh hillside with the rain coming in sideways. A multi-fuel stove sidesteps that entire drama. In simple terms: what is a multi-fuel stove? It’s a portable cooking stove built … Read more
There’s a particular kind of smugness that comes from charging your phone with a handful of twigs while everyone else at the campsite is hunting for a socket that doesn’t exist. That’s the entire pitch behind the best biolite campstove models, and it’s a genuinely clever one: burn biomass, generate heat for cooking, and skim … Read more
There’s a particular kind of smugness that comes from cooking dinner on a handful of twigs while the couple next to you fumble with an empty gas canister. That’s the quiet appeal of a wood gasifier stove: no fuel to carry, no valve to worry about, just fallen sticks and a clever bit of double-walled … Read more
There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a campsite when the gas canister stove goes silent and all you can hear is the crackle of twigs. That’s the appeal behind this solo stove lite review, and honestly, it’s an appeal that’s easy to dismiss until you’ve actually crouched over one of these things … Read more
There’s a particular kind of quiet satisfaction in boiling water for your brew using nothing but a handful of twigs you picked up off the path. No gas canister rattling around your pack, no faff finding a shop that stocks the right cartridge before you head out — just you, a small metal box, and … Read more
There’s a very particular kind of smugness that comes from sitting round a fire on a still evening and not smelling like a kipper the next morning. That’s the promise both a solo stove and a rocket stove make, and it’s why the solo stove vs rocket stove question keeps popping up in camping forums … Read more
There’s a particular kind of smugness that settles over you the first time you boil a full kettle using nothing but three twigs and a handful of dry grass. No gas canister rattling around in your rucksack, no faff with regulators, just a little metal chimney doing something faintly magical with fire. That’s the appeal … Read more
Stand two campers next to a fire and mention kelly kettle vs ghillie kettle, and you’ll get a debate that rivals “gas vs charcoal.” Both are chimney kettles — clever double-walled devices that use twigs, pine cones or scrap card to boil water in a few windswept minutes, no gas canister required. They look almost … Read more