I never cook in the canvas wall sleeping tent due to smells and moisture. A separate smaller cook tent or even an overhead tarp with walls to break wind is preferable to cooking in the sleep tent. Get an inexpensive portable shelter for cooking or even something like a big hub style ice fishing shelter. One of the military surplus center pole tents has worked for cooking also but the walls are pretty short compared to a real Davis wall tent. Good choice on Davis. Talk to Four Dog Stoves about heating and cooking stoves. They are in St. Francis, MN.