This year I am buying a £20 barbie bracket I can use with one of the many 99p disposable BBQs I got from Lidl - no not the same ones sold by the leading supermarkets for £3 to £5, but the identical ones Lidl sells at a fraction of the price.
Very handy. Quick dunk into the water when done and pop it into the waste bag for later disposal.
We have had various barbecues on board for many years. Began with a Magma charcoal one. It's a good bit of kit that produces excellent meals. Its disadvantages are that it takes some time to develop sufficient heat, then takes hours to cool down, during which the weather may change, leading to various difficulties. Disposal of the remains is also not easy, unless done the following morning, not always convenient for reasons of weather, tide, passage plan, etc. All of this is fine if it's for the purposes of occasional social occasions, but not so in hot climates where it is a very necessary and frequent extension to the galley.
So now we use one of these
Gas fired with lava lumps. Taste is indistinguishable from the charcoal version, it takes 5 minutes to warm up and can be packed away when we have finished eating. Runs on Camping Gaz, sits on a couple of old pieces of laminate floor to keep fat off the seating. Works in all sorts of wind, we have barbecued in 40 knots. It cost £19 from a camping shop but is available for less. Much cleaner and easier than a charcoal one.
P'raps a bit of an exaggeration, as these things are made of steel (mostly stainless)
The only (and annoying) problem I ever had with my pushpit mounted gas bbq was the flame blowing out regularly in a breeze.
With the Magma charcoal bbq, all you have to do to control the draft/temperature is operate the vents in the lid correctly. The lids on these things stay put in near gale force conditions.
