Cooker advice

[Sometime]

Hi

My boat (23' cruiser) needs a new cooker, can anyone advise me which one to buy? It will mainly be used for boiling the kettle

Thanks

 

[Boathook]

Hi

My boat (23' cruiser) needs a new cooker, can anyone advise me which one to buy? It will mainly be used for boiling the kettle

Thanks

I suspect that your cooker choice will be dictated by the space on board and what you actually want apart from hob such as oven and / or gril. Most of the modern boat cookers would seem ok though for the use you describe.

 

[VicS]

What sort of thing do you want and what fuel

one ring, two rings, two rings and gril,l two rings oven and grill

Gas, meths or paraffin.

Just for boiling the kettle you probably dont want the bother of a full gas installation. So one of these

but you need to give some thought about how and where to store it safely when not in use.

Better a single or double burner spirit stove like this:

or this

Personally I would not go for a pressure paraffin stove. Got two or is it three to get rid of.

 

[Sometime]

Many thanks for the swift replies.

It is to replace an existing old 2 ring cooker, I will confirm the size and the fuel later.

Thanks

 

[VicS]

Just to add that for me it was gas, because I wanted a grill. (I already had the gas installation for the old one)

The trouble then was the the only totally acceptable two ring and grill I could find was the Platstimo one :

Which would not fit the space available.

So ended up with a camping one ( minus its wind-shields) which does not have flame failure devices. (No great problem to me because the old one did not have flame failure devices as they were a rarity, other than on ovens, when that was fitted.

Any way I am now fitting a gas alarm to offset the lack of flame failure devices!

 

[Poignard]

There are a few shown on this USA website but I don't know if you can get them here (and the gas canisters for them).

http://www.practical-sailor.com/marine/Compact-Galley-Stoves.html

http://www.downwindmarine.com/Stove-Mini-Galley-2000-Gimbaled-Stainless-Steel-p-707316.html

I have been considering getting something like the Forespar as a backup for my perpetually troublesome Plastimo cooker.

 

[Orion1]

We are old school and use a Taylors Pressure Kerosene and love it.

 

[Cuan]

Do you still have the paraffin pressure stoves? I am interested in getting one, please could you pm me?

 

[Kelpie]

I don't think there's such a thing as the perfect fuel for a boat cooker. With a good installation, flame failure, and an alarm, gas seems to have become safe enough for the majority, but if it goes wrong it goes wrong in a big way. A friend of mine told me about some poor guys who lived under their dinghy in Patagonia for a month after their boat was blown up by a gas leak.

 

[Boo2]

Why so few diesel stoves ?

I keep reading about gas, spirit and paraffin/kerosene stoves but don't hear much about diesel ones. Is there a reason for that ? On the face of it, given what the engine runs on, diesel would be an obvious choice.

Boo2