My Thermopot

Great results and saving money – I bought my thermopot a couple of months ago and have been using it at home several times a week. It’s great for chilli, spaghetti sauce, beef or chicken casseroles or curries and rice in the small inner pot. Start off on the cooker, boil a while, put the stainless steel pot/ pots into the thermopot, put it into the insulated bag and leave. Great food hours later and no further energy used. Not just for camping. It works like the old fashioned haybox. In this age of energy saving, why wouldn’t you use it.

What is it FOR when you have to cook the food for so long?? – It said dont let the food sit for 6 hour without re-heating. We found it was in the dangerous temperature zone after SIX AFTER i went to great fuss to warm all parts and cook the pans hot, THEN i put it into TWO cardboard boxes sealed shut. That is SCARY!!!!!!!! The issue i have is it take 15 to 20 mins cooking then you slow cook but its ALREADY COOKED, best the unit seems to do is maintain the temperature for a while: Not enough heat/time to really slow cook meat down into anything. ONE issue may be that whilst they made a handle that doubles as a lid clamp it DOESNT clap it well and hot air escapes from the unit, needs another clamp or the fuss of a band round it. Easier and cheaper to just cook your food the normal way.

Excellent option for slow cooking – The My Thermopot is one of many copies of the well know product and I think it has done a good job and is the best of the imitators. The price plus the insulating bag is really a winner, it is 6 litres ( perfect) and has the smaller inner pot as well as the larger main pot essential to do a main dish with an accompanying rice dish etc. Only 1 lid is provided so if you have the main pot cooking away in the outer pot, you really need another lid for the smaller one if your cooking say rice at the same time. I went through my cupboard and managed to find a saucepan lid that did the job. The stainless steel isn't the thickest in the world but I intend to use a heat diffuser anyway for items that need longer stove top cooking. The locking mechanism on the lid is probably its weakest point as the lid is held secure by the handle swinging down I think they would leak if you are doing a lot off off road and have something cooking at the same time, but the inventive people will work out a gimbal or way to secure the lid more firmly. You always need set of billy grips to manage these pots at times but that's normal. This probably doesn't have the thermal properties of the gold standard thermal cooker but try it at home first for meat dishes especially so you know its idiosyncrasies and aren't disappointed. There isn't a cook book to speak of but I tend to use the principle of a couple of dishes and apply to what I want to cook and a basic cookbook is provided. If you like steaming vegetables just eb aware that normal stainless steel steamers don't always fit take your small pot into the store and check out that the steamer you've chosen is the right height with the lid on. There isn't a trivet either but we don't cook sweets. So I'd recommend it for people wanting a cheaper alternative remembering always that quality does have a price.

Best thing for the kitchen we've bought for our new motorhome so far!!! – Fantastic cooker, meat melts in your mouth. Great company to deal with, arrived really well packaged & in excellent condition, the item was even better than I imagined. Do yourself a favour, as Molly always says, & invest in one of these, not just for camping but for home too!