BBQ - Gas or Charcoal ?

**BlueSharp** · 31 May 2018, 10:40

Kettle BBQ with charcoal. Personally I like DanCook as they have a double skin bowl which makes cleaning a doddle (you can take the bowl out and tip away) and helps getting things hotter due to the double skin.

If your using Gas may as well use the grill...

**MonkeysUncle** · 31 May 2018, 10:47

Charcoal, always charcoal
Weber do really nice ones, depends on how much you want to spend I guess.

**darmstadt** · 31 May 2018, 10:54

House rules here say no open fires, which doesn't seem to stop many of my neighbours, so I bought an electric one which wasn't too bad but I now use just to keep stuff warm as I bought one of these: LotusGrill and must say, it's not badd. Smokeless, flameless and your food is cooking in a matter of minutes.

**original PM** · 31 May 2018, 10:54

Disposable all the way.

**ladymuck** · 31 May 2018, 11:00

Originally posted by original PM View Post

Disposable all the way.

Absolutely
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-in...-bbq/p/0049281

**original PM** · 31 May 2018, 11:03

Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Absolutely
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-in...-bbq/p/0049281

Go big or go home!

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**WTFH** · 31 May 2018, 11:03

If it's being used just for parties and the odd good day (so maybe 5-6 days a year), then go charcoal.

If you use it as an outdoor kitchen and regularly cook on it - maybe 20+ days a year, then I'd say go with gas.

And if you've got the room, you do both - get a fire pit which you can cook on to use as well as a gas BBQ.

**Pondlife** · 31 May 2018, 11:16

I'm sure this used to be a contractor forum.

Get yourself one of these.

https://www.biggreenegg.eu/en/

**original PM** · 31 May 2018, 11:19

Originally posted by WTFH View Post

If it's being used just for parties and the odd good day (so maybe 5-6 days a year), then go charcoal.

If you use it as an outdoor kitchen and regularly cook on it - maybe 20+ days a year, then I'd say go with gas.

And if you've got the room, you do both - get a fire pit which you can cook on to use as well as a gas BBQ.

If you use it 5 or 6 days a year go disposable....

I am currently having this debate with myself - last few weeks has been lovely so we have done a few bbq's etc using disposable ones (my actual bbq got chucked a year or so when I was sorting out the garden) - and they have been fine - cost is about £2 quid - which is what you would pay on charcoal for a proper one.

So really give in the UK will probably do less than 15 bbq's per year I am struggling to even consider buying a proper one.

But then I am a cheapskate

BBQ - Gas or Charcoal ?