Cobb Barbeque.

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Thinking of buying one ,mainly for use at home over the summer,but also for the boat if it proves to be as good as they say. I have noticed a few threads on this forum regarding said item,so can anyone advise on ..which one to go for.,and where is best place to buy online. (not e bay please!!) Any thoughts welcome. Cheers.
 
Hi. We bought a Cuprinol (sorry, cobb) Bar-b-que last year and took it with us on our trip last summer for four months. It does what it says on the tin. You can cook all manner of foods on it. If you have a mind to you can cook all your meals on it including breakfast! Everything from the normal bar-b-que to the Sunday roast to bread. Before you buy one read the recipe book that comes with it and see for yourself what it really can do. Excellent value at £99.
 
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You mean to say that you have not tried it yet!

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Packed away with a lot of other bits ready for move to Norway - if it ever happens now.
 
We bought one last year from Lakeland £89 including the carry case. They are brilliant, they use very little fuel, cook superbly and don't get hot on the outside. You can pick it up and move it around - put it on the cockpit table, even take it down below!

They flame a bit when first lighted, so best to light up out in the open, but once it is ready to cook, you can use it where ever.

When you have finished using it they are easy to clean. Although with the top on and the whole thing in the carry bag, you can wait 'til you get home to clean it.

We've had several so called portable bar-b-ques and this is easily the best. £89 well spent.
 
Can only echo what others have said. We replaced a potable gas jobbie with one of these last year. Truly excellent - I now tend to cook on the cockpit table rather than crouched on the pontoon.

If the weather stays as is I'll be using it for the first time this year later today.
 
Yes. Add another vote from a satisfied Cobber! Sits on the fibreglass afterdeck and we cook from the cockpit. Doesn't even get really warm on the outside. One note use briquettes of good quality for the best results. Other than that easy peasy! Good luck and happy cooking - you won't regret buying one.

Chas
 
James, where did you order from? (If you have already done the pricebusting search it would be a shame to let all your hard work go to waste /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif)
Cheers
Rob
 
Got one, and with the proviso that you regard it as a charcoal powered *oven* it works very well, is clean, very portable, and well made. IMHO it's not too good at traditional 'burnt-on-the-outside-raw-on-the-inside' style of barbeque cooking, or frying steaks, etc. Looking forward to trying to smoke some fish in mine this year - I tried smoked pheasant last Autumn, and while the taste was excellent, I'd left the pheasant in for too long and it had gone very dry.

Using the specified "Aussie heat beads" seems to be very important, as other briquets I've tried don't last long enough. Good news is that Tesco sell them.

I got mine a few years ago as a 'last year's model' form "BBQ warehouse" or something similar online, for £50 - this is without the non-stick cooking plate (plain stainless) or carrying bag. Other good deals I've heard of are sales / discounts at Lakeland, but probably not the right time of year for these! Other than that, I'm sure the sale of the things is some sort of franchise, as the prices are held in a narrow band by all suppliers, and they all seem to have the same, slightly evangelical web pages.

There have been cases of the things going on fire (somebody on these forums IIRC), but also reported on the UK Campsite forums (Which are to camping / caravanning what these forums are to boating..... Err...a friend told me.. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif) Following these incidents, a new version came out where the outer case was made of some sort of metal mesh (rather than plastic). I don't know what the current model is.

Best tip for me was to make up little bags with 8-10 heat beads and a couple of firelighters in each. Just need to empty one of these into the cobb when you want to cook, rather than messing around with a big, dusty bag of coals, etc.


Andy
 
homebase has the heat beads this year too - white and orange packaging

re steaks - if you use 50% heat beads and 50% charcol you get a much hotter burn - so much so that you have to take care as it can overheat the lid a bit! You do have to remember that it's a SOuth African design and for their style of BBQ (Brai) adding any colour to the meat at all is considered very poor cooking! Over here we tend to associate colour with taste (which of course it provides) but there they either add the taste through marinades or the smoke - or rely on the product itself!
 
Tried it out this evening for the first time.Results..Brilliant! easy to use and cooked the food(chops&veg) perfectly.Lovely BBQ flavour , moist and well cooked. Thanks for all the helpful advice. Only problem is that it might be a bit bulky to carry out to Greece ,but we will sort that out no doubt. Cheers all and have a great weekend.
 
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Using the specified "Aussie heat beads" seems to be very important, as other briquettes I've tried don't last long enough. Good news is that Tesco sell them.

[/ QUOTE ]We can't get heat beads here in Spain, or briquettes but Spanish charcoal is much better quality than most of the UK stuff and it works fine. We regularly cook a large, whole, leg of lamb and have enough heat to do some potatoes as well. Just fill the basket with good charcoal and away you go.
 
Anyone have any recommendations/contacts, re a charcoal bbq for the sternrail, had a great one on the last boat boat, given it in the Caribb, can,t remember the mark. it was a rectangular one, stainless, clampt on the pushpit. Must get another before we go back South in June! Bill.
 
The market leader is Magma, a US firm. For us it was a toss-up between a Magma charcoal/gas or the Cobb. We went for the Cobb and one big benefit is the ability to cook whole roasts without hassle - the roasts are more or less self-basting and taste very special. If I had a much larger yacht I'd probably have a Cobb and a Magma.
 
Just had reason to change my mind about Cobb. SWMO managed to throw part of the fire basket overboard this morning. Not to worry sez I, they claim to offer a spare part service. Telephoned their UK distributor and discovered that the design of the fire basket had changed.

Oh no squire they said can't supply you with a part for an old model. We bought it two seasons ago, they claim its seven years old. I've heard of old stock but.........

So, we have a totally useless piece of kit (rhyming slang unintentional) with no spares backup. Guess which make the replacement won't be.
 
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Just had reason to change my mind about Cobb. SWMO managed to throw part of the fire basket overboard this morning.

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Could you substitute a basket from a deep fat fryer or similar rather than ditch the whole oven?
 
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