I just purchased a triple burner gas cooker. I already had a two burner that I used all last year for food vendoring at outdoor concerts and The Taste of Des Moines. I could not believe the extra power that the three burners gave me at The Taste of Des Moines. I was able to keep up and cook food for over 5,000 people. I had each burner in use. The food that I fixed was Cajun fried catfish fingers, gumbo, jambalaya, Cajun fries, red beans and rice, all was prepared outdoors. Since I purchase the second cooker I don't even use the barbecue grill that much anymore.

We belong to a small eight couple (and families) camping group that enjoys camping as much as possible. We spent ten days in Northern Michigan with approximately seventy-eight friends and family. Out of the eight couples in the group, four of us purchased the three burner stove and the griddle plate to go with it. We set up our camp kitchen and had breakfast and dinner for all seventy-eight people everyday. Among the items that were cooked with the stoves were: roast, fajitas, BBQ chicken, omelettes, pancakes, french toast and several other items. There were guys in the group that were stepping up and wanting to become the cooks after years of wanting nothing to do with it.

Thanks to the Camp Chef stove people are helping prepare meals, which allows all of us to eat together.

I already told you about the great scout camp experience. Three weeks later I took my Tahoe 3 burner and accessories to a family camping outing and reunion.

The first two days I did all the cooking for my family and our neighbors who had come up to visit. Next, I cooked for my family and nine other relatives for three meals. The last three days I did all the cooking for my family and my sons' family, 10 of us. When I say all the cooking, I mean everything from fantastic breakfast meals to baking trout in the grill box to great meat and potato suppers. I even cooked a chocolate cherry dumpling on the stove using my new Lewis and Clark Dutch oven with a bunt cake pan just sitting inside with the cake in it. Forty minutes from start to finish and another 15 minutes to eat it up.

I find myself looking for opportunities to "do the cooking" since I got this stove earlier this year.

Last year I bought the Camp Chef Tahoe to use with the scouts on a trip where the fire restrictions made it impossible to use fire or charcoal. The scouts love to Dutch Oven cook and on the trip earlier in the year were disappointed when we were not able to do the Dutch Oven cooking do to the fire restrictions. We took the Camp Chef stove with us, not really knowing how it would work. We were pleasantly surprised at how great it worked. We did deep fried Chicken Breast thinking it would be easiest to do on the stove. In the morning we decided to try a mountain man breakfast and were concerned that it would not turn out because we could not heat the top of the oven like we could with charcoal. The final results were great. We just ended up stirring the mixture more than usual.

Since the success on that trip, I have gone through three bottles of propane. We loved the stove so much that we decided to do last years Thanksgiving dinner in the Turkey Roaster and server it with Dutch Oven Potatoes. Not exactly a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner but it was the best we had since getting married. Now whenever we have a family dinner planned, we take the Tahoe with us and know that we are going to be able to have an enjoyable Dutch Oven dinner, without the mess of charcoal or a fire.