Comments on: Top 5 Useless Camping Products

By: Gus Glover

Gus Glover — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:56:37 +0000

My grandmother, who died two years ago at the age of 96 started camping on the east side of the High Sierras in 1939, when it would take 12 hours driving from Los Angeles to get there. For years, here favorite piece of camping gear was her Coleman Outdoor Camp Oven, similar to the ones still sold. Once each camping trip, she would bake (from scratch) an extra special treat for my grandfather: a peach pie, made with canned cling peaches. I grew up thinking this was something that everyone did! As an old man of 55, I don’t think of a camp stove oven as “useless” or “camp porn”; i think of how good that pie tasted along with a meal of hash-brown potatoes and fresh caught trout…

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:19 +0000

Gerhard – yes, we call it “gear porn” here in the states I’m afraid that for some reason our love for the outdoors often translates into the need for strange and wonderful (if not always useful) gadgets.

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:38:31 +0000

As long as there is camping, there will be gadgets! But in fairness, these are recreational products, not camping in a tent products. The fryer and oven are more for caravans (or trailers as you may call them). So I gues it about your idea of how you want to live when you go into the wilderness – in a tent, close to nature, without a lot of stuff to get in the way, or in a mobile mansion with aircon and satelite tv….

By: Randy L

Randy L — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:08:01 +0000

I want one of those electronic marshmallow roasters for my cubicle at work. Should be a big hit for coffee breaks in the office. Randy L’s last blog post..Ohlone out-and-back

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:25:53 +0000

Craig – we carry some of those too, just in case. I wonder if that company ever sold very many of their electric ones?