Boys love to barbeque and they love gadgets. Boys love stainless steel and nice engineering so put the lot together and you get this. - It’s as close as it gets to a Swiss army knife of outdoor cooking It looks like a spare part for a tumble dryer but what an amazing piece of kit.
Inside this mesh outer is a stainless steel bowl with a fire box that takes 10 standard briquettes. That’s it - ten briquettes and 2 hours of barbeque heat and at all times you can pick the thing up and move it around as the outer is stone cold - awesome, lovely, gadgety boys stuff.
I cannot claim the credit here. My neighbour Martin found these and raved at me that I needed one. All the stories about the sublime gadget-tastic-ness and I still did not get it. Last week we swapped Peters smaller bike for one with the same neighbour and so I am now all Cobbed up.
There is a real danger that I will set up my space age South African Safari cooker on my campsite table and be mobbed by interested but plainly dull campers. I of course will be casual and smug (and equally dull) in a gadgety kind of way. Just look at the Teflon coated griddle and the easy clean stainless steel cover they will say and I will confidently lift the whole cooking lot up with cool hands and listen for the crooning amazement that follows from the Velcro flap trousered ensemble.
In my excitement I want to be taking my Backy (South African pickup truck) into the African veldt to cook fresh caught wild bush hare under a dazzling African sky of a million stars. But in reality I will be in a field with sixty other caravans 6 metres apart in the Home Counties looking up at the grey clouds reflecting the orange glow of the local ring road .
........BUT - with a gadget like this I at least have a chance to dream about distant wild safari while munching on a co-op premium lincolnshire low fat sausage
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