Camp Chef LP Stove/Oven

[Captain Smollett]

 20#'s of propane lasts me the better part of, if not a whole year.

That does not surprise me at all.

Just to throw some more numbers out for those planning propane systems, we have a 10 lb bottle and it lasts 3-4 months with regular (daily) use for cooking and heating water for clean-up.  That's for four people (bigger meals, more dishes, etc).

Some of the boats come into this marina with enough propane on board to last years...plural.  Amazing.

[Doc Bob]

Capn K my stove is on it's 3rd season and working great!!!!! I don't cook on it as much as the last two seasons as I bought a new (read large) four burner grill for use when I'm at my dock (we own our slip here in AuGres, MI) but still use it for cooking breakfast and when it's too cool or raining. I use two squat 3lb cyl. stored in a converted lazzarette in the cockpit.

[s/v Faith]

Since the good Captain started this thread, the original link has gone dead.  I could not recall which
stove we were discussing here so I found one.

Here is a picture;

[CapnK]

Regarding the size: If I could shave about 6" out of the middle (making the oven space 'shorter', so that overall it wasn't quite so tall), I'd still be using it. It works great.

[Tim]

Do we actually have that much room in our lazarette?  Wait a minute, are you leaving the motor out?

Do you have that locker 'in hand' (when you're not 1000 miles away) allready?  Where did you come across that beauty?  Might have to get some dimensions...

Although not permanently affixed (I am still cleaning up and setting mounting bolts) I do have the box and have fitted it on the port side of the motor well. I will have a motor with tankage starboard.  I was able to buy my locker without tank and solenoid directly from Seaward saving myself some bucks, but it appears that they only offer it all together now at around $400 
I am rebuilding the lazz and sealing it off  with a thru hull drain for the locker, it is all a very tight fit but doable.

http://www.seawardproducts.com/

[Capt. Tony]

Tim that is a sweet little unit.  Too bad they didn't offer it with the composite tank for the same, or reduced price.  Hey, dream big right?

Kurt, does that mean you are not going to work the CC into your interior or just not at this time?  I vasilate back and forth on this topic (too).  Jim Baldwin has such a nice, simple, compact stove.  A dutch oven makes it an oven simple as that.  But a stove and an oven?  Man, oh man, I could learn to cook...

[CapnK]

Tony, I am still a bit up in the air on this, but don't think I have the room to properly mount the CC stove/oven, and so would need both it *and* a smaller gimballed stove for use in a seaway. That means instead of having 1 object doing 2 functions, I have to have 2 objects doing only 1 function, and there isn't room aboard for that, no matter how nice the hardware... 

Jim Baldwin's Atom Stoves are great, no doubt, and I love the innovation/inspiration he brought to them. I have one of the little Forespar propane swing stoves, but would much prefer an Atom Stove, or a Sea Swing like CJ&L and others here have. The Forespar can only use its own, or other, very small pots - about 6" diameter.

[Capt. Tony]

Ooo!  You fell for the Forespar marketing department too huh? I gotta say, it  looked bigger in the catalog and the on-line photos. 

Ah, I remember it well.  It was like Christmas morning when the package arrived that day.  After I unboxed it, I started to realize there aint much you can do with them little pots and pans.  Even the coffee perkolator is a might bit small for filling a thermos.  That's when I started looking more seriously at Jim's cookers.  There is a lot one can do with a 10" frying pan.  Everything from cooking your dinner to defending your ground.  So I don't know, maybe it's an unknown fear of the 'complexity of kerosene' that keeps me from pulling the trigger on one.  Or maybe I just want an oven that looks like an oven.  Odd when you considers the potential of blowing up the boat just for a pan of muffins!

I'm gonna mock one out of cardboard and see if it can work here.  With gimbal!

[wolfenzee]

I found one of these at a local camping store and got it. Since then at least 4 other people in our marina have got one and I have found out of other sailors that have tried them with favorable results. I have had mine for two years now. It is not hard to gimble them using pop rivets. I still haven't figured a way to put sea rails on yet the though.

[atrometer]

We don't use one on our boat, BUT we do use one camping.  The quality and service of Camp Chef is min my opinion EXCELLENT.  We bought ours on line on Ebay.  It came without a regulator which the seller didn't/wouldn't supply.  I called Camp Chef and they sent me one for FREE - just can't beat that!!!