Reddit reviews Camp Chef Explorer Double Burner Stove

Not an apartment or condo, but I do have a 2 burner propane grill that I use on my bedroom balcony for when i'm feeling extra fat and don't want to leave my bedroom or when it's too damn hot to cook inside. It's this model and you can buy extra accessories like this BBQ grill. I mainly use my cast iron skillets and this griddle.

It's super convenient because it doesn't take up much room and you can remove the legs and store it easily.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0006VORDY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1458592408&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=outdoor+cooking+stove&dpPl=1&dpID=41-a21yRppL&ref=plSrch

I've used this before and it works amazingly.

This is amazing, thanks. Where do you usually (geographically) camp? I'll try to check you this year. We were at 4:30 and A last year, and will probably be around there again.

That matches what we tried for frying; it just didn't scale for chicken for us. But those tricks for getting a great french fry sound awesome and delicious.

For what it's worth, a generator is an AMAZING investment for a camp like this. Chest freezers are a godsend. And draw shockingly little power.

And by the way, we did a 100% protein menu -- all we served was chicken (drumsticks, because wings had a shitty bone-to-meat ratio and were more of a mess; but plenty of restaurants serve drumsticks and call them wings too...). We wanted to do something decidedly different than other people giving away food, and this is what we settled on. But yes -- food safety and paranoia. Both are REALLY important.

Anyone reading this: He is talking about burners like http://www.amazon.com/Bayou-Classic-Single-Burner-Patio/dp/B0009JXYQ4 for the fryer burner. I own that one for our camp, as well as a http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-Explorer-EX-60LW-2-Burner/dp/B0006VORDY -- the Camp Chef is amazing, by the way. They suck down propane though.

I have this stove and it's perfect for car camping trips. I've used all sorts of stoves, but I prefer this one - has it's own legs to set up anywhere, can use a big propane tank for longer trips (plus cheap refills) or if you have a lot to cook, and Pumps out the heat. Been using it for a few years now and it's always worked perfect.

https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-EX60LW-Explorer-Outdoor/dp/B0006VORDY

I used to use this one when I had my bayou classic 11 gallon kettle and it worked just fine. I have a 15 gallon now that wouldn't fit on it so I had to upgrade.

https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-Explorer-EX-60LW-2-Burner/dp/B0006VORDY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1486488237&sr=8-3&keywords=two+burner+camping+stove

Camp Chef stoves are awesome. I have one of these with the griddle add-ons. I love it for the big campout each year, when I'm the defacto cook for a whole mess of people.

Maybe someone can help me with a question about stoves. I recently traded for this camp chef stove. It's almost 35 lbs, but that's fine because I also picked up a Jetboil Zip for just backpacking. I'm trying to figure out what cookware to use though.

I hooked up the camp chef yesterday and the flames seem to have a very nice range range of full blast to real low (I was worried they might be too powerful). When I use my Jetboil, I don't want to cook actual food in it, just boil water and then transfer to a package/pot/dish and then mix something instant.

I already have a nice 8" calphalon non stick frying pan - also heavy so I would only use for car camping on the 2 burner. This cookset caught my eye MSR Quick 2 Pot I liked that the smaller pot is non-stick and might be good to take backpacking with the jetboil for easy clean up and mixing instant meals. The bigger pot is then not coated with non stick so I was hoping it would be OK for the more powerful flames of the camp chef explorer or just hanging over a campfire without having to worry about non-stick coating bubbling or flaking. Do you think this pot is too weak for my larger stove? If it can handle a campfire I think it should be OK for 30,000 btu?

Burners. Is 30k BTU enough? I need to get a burner and am looking at getting a Explorer Camp stove so it can at least multi-task / allow for others to brew with me if they don't have their own burner.

http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-Explorer-EX-60LW-2-Burner/dp/B0006VORDY

Specs out at 30k BTU per burner I know a lot of the other brewer specific single burners are a lot higher. Should I worry or will this get the job done?