Reloading on Camp cooking gear
I've camped on and off for years. I love to cook, so I have taken a lot of cooking gear over the years. After a two year hiatus, I bought and fixed up a 20 foot Fleetwood Prowler. I got to camp i...
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Super_Dave wrote:
Two things:
1) the version of that stove I looked at on the internet has a coupler that the leg screw into. I it has what appears to be 6" legs without the extensions.
2) The problem you will have with a tabletop version with this stove is heat so close to a top. I put my grill on a tabletop with a couple of layers of cheap ceramic tiles under the grill to protect the surface of the table I am cooking on. You will definitely need some kind of heat shield.
P.S. I'm an old hardware store guy. lol
I bought a Camp Chef YUKON.
I went ahead and used a pipe cutter to shorten the legs to make it a table top model. (It's much more stable than the factory legs)
I put the inserts from the bottom of the legs into the shortened model. The cooking surface of the Yukon now sits 12" above the table. I'll be able to transport it w/o taking the legs off.
The shortened legs are more stable than the factory legs.
For me this was a win, win. I'm 6'3" and the factory legs were just too short to use as a stand alone. I finished the stove so there was no bending or stooping while I cook.
Previously I built a 6" platform for another Camp Chef, but I never loved carrying around a stove platform. I have carried an extra table camping for years, my solution is to put an extra table at one end of a campground table in a 'T' configuration, and cook on it...
