You’ve been paddling all day in gusting winds and heavy rains, you could barely tell the difference between being under the water and above. Your gear is soggy, your fingers numb, the one thing your craving is a hot meal when you get back to your campsite. Either you can settle for a hot dog (probably soggy as well) or you can settle in by the fire with a 12″ (30cm) pizza! You can even polish it off with a cake afterwards. 

Coleman’s Portable InstaStart Stove Oven, $249.99, is small enough to be portable and convenient, but large enough to cook the foods you enjoy back home. Having two full-size appliances in one, a stove and an oven, means you’re not limited to something you can cook out of a single pot.  Have eggs and bacon in the morning for breakfast and bake a cheesy casserole for dinner. The two stove burners produce a total of 12,000 BTUs. The oven reaches 3,000 BTUs, temperate up to 500 degrees F, meaning this is no Easy Bake oven. It’s a real tool for camp cooking.

Another key feature of the InstaStart Stove Oven, is the Instastart push-button lighting system. Now you don’t have to play with fire and gas, trying to light your stove. Just push a button and you have means to cook dinner. The WindBlock system shields burners for maximum heat and to ensure you can keep dinner cooking even in the wind. The WindBlock gaurds can adjust to different pot sizes as well. 

Currently available at Canadian Tire. For more information about Coleman, or their Portable InstaStart Stove Oven. check out their website, colemancanada.ca.

We love nifty gadgets, so when this new innovation from Switzerland came across the editorial desk, we just had to share!

An incredible fusion between the simplicity of a suitcase, the ingenuity of a Swiss Army knife and the essentials of a motorhome, the SwissRoomBox freeTech is a compact and affordable conversion kit that fits nearly any compact car, SUV or minivan.

Thanks to the clever folding concept of this modular system, you can take the RoomBox with you while traveling and, in 5 minutes, transform your car into a motorhome for sleeping, cooking and eating.

For just 1,645–2,220 Euros, the RoomBox freeTech makes motorhomes accessible to any car owner. You can even pack it along as airline luggage and convert your rental car when traveling.

Check out the pics below, or visit http://www.swissroombox.com to learn more. Here’s hoping this cool kit makes it across the pond this summer!