Hi,
We use ours to cook anything you would cook on any bbq, plus we also cook whole chickens and whole joints of beef/lamb etc. We've even used it to cook frozen potato wedges. It's excellent.
Lesley

 

COBB BARBEQUE

Wee Dee.
This is our third season with our Cobb and we find it works well.
It is, in my opinion, economical with fuel and cooks everything we have tried very well.
We do not cook whole chickens but we might try it, mainly we do smaller pieces of meat, fish, chicken etc. It also cooks potatoes and veg very well.
It is easy to produce a meal for the two of us with all items cooked on the cobb.
It is not in any way disposable and therefore must be thoroughly cleaned when finished with, this is usually my job and is OK provided there is ample hot water.
If you want to see Cobbs in action watch the TV series 'Hairy Bikers'.They cook on Cobbs in the open nearly every program.

Paul

 

We use ours to cook/ heat everything. Used it this evening to cook potatoes, carrotts and heat the steak and ale pie. Would not be without it. Best item I have ever bought for motorhome.

Stewart

 

We bought one and used it a few times but it then ended up in the garage as it was a pain to clean and also it takes up a bit of space.
Having said all that I was cleaning out the garage today and came across it, I then thought about taking it to France in Sept. as since changing the van there is more storage space.

 

Hi

We recently bought one and have cooked a lamb joint, with potatoes and whole garlic dropped in the well around the fire basket later in the cooking process. Just like a slow cooker and very economical and the chef doesn't smell like a BBQ afterwards - great! We have also used it like a normal BBQ and we're really impressed.

Anita

 

Hi,

We've had one for a while now. Initially we were using brickettes or normal charcoal, but it was such a pain to clean as it was always sooty. We saw the people who sell it at the P'brough show and they were using a new Cobb brickette for the first time, but it was really expensive. He said it was about £7. We found the same in the Pound Shop and 99p shop and that's for 2!

They last for hours (you only need 1) and they are so clean. Once it's cool, if you're careful, you can empty out the used brickette without it breaking up. We cooked a whole chicken last week and there was still enough heat/time to cook half a butternut squash. Don't cook a corn fed chicken on it though as it's a bit too fatty

We often use it at home as, for 2 people, it's easier than our regular BBQ.

When we're away, once we're finished cooking, we just leave it in the corner of the awning room on cool evenings. Free heating.

Go for it!!!

MOB2

 

Thanks for the info.
It sounds as though it would be OK for us. Just a couple more questions! What size is it when packed in the bag? (Lakeland only give the dimensions without the dome lid!)
Is it much slower than a normal BBQ to cook sausages and steaks, and if so, can you still cook a rare steak?

 

Hi sell them, and Pusser and I did a cook in to test them.

He cooked and invited far too many people an I got carried away to.

We both cooked a number of things badly

He gave his to the people that he doesn't like that live opposite him (they have a caravan and block the sun from making the Pussbuss look shiny)

I gave mine to our campsite wardens who slow cook bacon outside the campsite reception to tempt people in

I have just ordered a Coleman Roadtrip Pro as seen on the gadget show.

So an honest appraisal of a product that we do sell and I can't get on with, and a product that we don't sell that I do like.

Pusser will no doubt be along soon to confirm that neither of us can cook on a BBQ

Cheers

Eddie

 

It's about 14"/15" high and much the same across the way. We don't find it too big to find a home for though. I'm not sure if you want to buy everything at once, but we did as it worked out cheaper.

We bought The Premier Cobb, Carry Bag, Recipe Book, Roast Rack, Fry Dish, Fry Pan, Griddle, Gas Lighter and Thermometer for £140 and no charge for P&P for next day delivery.

It was from www.cobb-bbq.co.uk I don't know if it still exists, but I had a code from the UK Campsites site. You had to join to qualify. It's worth being a member anyway and it's free. I found it easier to ring the Cobb guy as I wasn't sure how the discount code worked.

As for your steak, the griddle or frying pan would be good for rare steak.

MOB2

 

We have used a Cobb for about 6 years - they were a lot cheaper to buy then - about £35 for whole thing at Northern M H Show! Have not yet mastered a rare steak unless it is very thick about 6 - 7 cm. To be honest we usually use a disposable for steak as it is easier to get really hot. However no regrets about buying the Cobb as we use it regularly at home and in the van and most bits go in the dishwasher at home.

 

read the reccomends here and have just ordered one £85.00 on ebay
so will give it a go. love bbqing but cannot stand the hastle of normal bbs and never fancied the gas versions just used a large g forman on the table outside but no good with out hook up.

 

If you want a good endorsement,just watch the Hairy Bikers on UK Food. They use a Cobb for all sorts of things including curries and tagines.

 

Yes, I did have a little setback. I went to M&S and bought some stuff including Angus Beefburgers and when I got home the missus said I had bought far to much for just two of us. This was just going to be a trial run ready for and in earnest go in Porky later on this year.

So thinking of my feet I invited the couple from next door to share in my evenings extravaganzer. Missus had the same idea but failed to tell me until later on and also invited some friends and then of course youngest son decided to cancel going out and eat in once he knew burgers were on the menu.

In retrospect this device is probably ideal and does a very good job for two which after all is why we bought it. But eight is stretching it.

When I found out how many were coming I went to Tescos to buy some more stuff so we would not be caught short.

I had to resort to using the oven and a two frying pans to cope with the huge pile of meats in the kitchen and while actively engaged with the frying pan found out the first cookings were already burnt on the hob but at least that cut down on the meat mountain.

Next I did the angus burgers and boasted that they were not just any burgers but M&S Angus Burgers and after everyone said how lovely they were I found out I had cooked Tescos ones by mistake. Tescos finest come in exactly the same packaging as M&S other than of course the label so I wonder if this is from the same suppliers.

Eventually, as people chomped there way through sausages, chops, burgers, and loin steak the M&S burgers were flung on the Cobb. They were done to a turn but sadly everyone was full to the point of being ill so I had to throw them away. Must have been a whole cow full and possibly the provacation that Gordon Brown needed to annouce his latest waste of food and waste of space speech.

I popped into vanbitz I to have an electrical issue sorted which Chelston could not do and Eddie forced me to buy one of these saying how it would change my life, make me more attractive to women and add inches to my pride and joy. He then took my credit card and emptied it on a rather bizarre machine.

Finally, we compared notes to a degree and we both decided that cleaning all the fat out the moat and the ash afterwards was beneath us but for those with wives that do all the nasty jobs then I can thoroughly recommend it.

 

Hi Eddie,

just looking through this thread and noticed you were thinking of getting the Coleman Road Trip BBQ - did you get one and what do you think about it?

Pete