silly camping/calor question

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Does anyone have any idea for how many hours a gas cannister lasts, using say a single cooker burner? I'm talking here about the gas bottles which are about 10" diameter and about 12" tall. I appreciate it varies according to the burner and temperature - but I just wanted an idea of how many bottles I might need for a lon trip.

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you will be referring to the 7lb/3kg calor bottle. we found a 13kg bottle lasted 6 weeks for cooking and water heating, others reckon a lot longer than that. you should get 1-3 weeks from your bottle depending on how much you cook or boil water for washing/ washing up.

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We have four, and under normal conditions one and a bit lasts about a sailing season for us. On a long tropical trip we managed to run all four out in about 4 or 5 months, so I guess about a month per bottle when used daily.

8 years ago, we got ours filled up in Gran Canaria for about 50p per bottle.
 

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I've found when chartering boats in, say Greece, that the full (well I think its full) bottle we have on departure, needs to be changed before the 2 weeks is up - and we use it only really for the kettle, tending to eat out most days. Obviously, on a longer non-stop passage, it'll be used for cooking too. Given that on a longer trip, you tend to eat fresh/chilled stuff at first before resorting to the dreaded tins (argh, fray bentos) towards the end of the journey. Fray Bentos is bad enough. Uncooked fray bentos, if the gas runs out will be a bit grim!

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Bear in mnd that you cannot get Calor in France and other countries and only with difficulty in Spain.

The Camping Gaz cylinder you are talking about is probably the 907, which costs about 15 -18 euros. We regularly use ours for 2 cups of tea and grilled toast at breakfast, morning coffee, 2 pots of tea at lunchtime, afternoon tea, 2 kettles for showers before dinner and cooking a full evening meal. A cylinder lasts about 14 - 16 days.

We kept the Calor hose-end fittings and use a Camping to Calor screw in converter, which any Calor shop will have. It is a good idea to have 4 cylinders in the locker and to have 2 of them coupled into a manifold. When one runs out,(which is always in the middle of cooking a meal) you throw the switch and turn on the second.

When you have 2 empty cylinders, you exchange them. If your timing is good, you have gaz/gas autonomy for 8 - 9 weeks without recourse to huge cylinders ... but they give cheaper gas.

My standard Calor, pot bellied cylinders last a coupl of days longer than the equivalent Camping, but I have no idea about relevant quantities in each

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Crikey, you must drink a lot of tea! I use calor for all hot water (unless we're in a marina, which is 50% of our holiday time) and find a 3kg bottle lasts for at least a season of normal sailing, say 4-5 weeks of daily use for two of us.


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I've had a single Camping Gaz 907 last me (on my own) 6 weeks in my camper when subcontracting away from home. That was breakfast, lunch & supper 5 days a week + 5-6 mugs of tea daily in addition to the 2 at each meal. All meals cooked properly from raw ingredients - which bumped the cooking time up to approx 25 minutes for main meals. No heating though. Washing up water consisted of 1 mug of cold water topped up with hot as required to a maximum 2 mugfuls of hot. At the end of the 6 weeks I could hear a little liquid sloshing in the bottom of the bottle, but it couldn't have been much.
If heating water for washing, your consumption rate will easily double that above.

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Richard.


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