BBQ recommendations

[TheOrs]

I have a LotusGrill. It's brilliant! Standard size is big enough to cook burgers & fish for six of us.

It's cool on the outside like a Cobb but it's more BBQ like. Uses charcoal but the fan means you can be cooking in about 10mins and you can pick it up and move it around while it's alight.

£150 though...

 

[Uricanejack]

At home I use a Weber with charcoal. Gas just doesn’t taste the same.

I have had a nice little stainless Kumma portable gas BBQ probably 15 years or more originally bought for when we went camping. Used it on our first boat, it’s been on a holder on the rail since I bought this boat. After many years of good service it’s finaly just about done. Never needed a new burner.
I just use the disposable propane tanks.

On an older boat had a small charcoal BBQ on the rail. Propane is a lot easier.

It’s been our primary cooking methods for sailing. Used almost every time we are sailing except for when we go to the pub.
The galley ussualy only gets used to make coffee and bacon sandwiches.

BBQ’d steaks,salmon, burgers, lamb chops are easy when heeled over sailing to windaward offshore. BBQ ‘d bratwurst not so much. I lost a few overboard which was quite annoying. They rolled off when I open the lid.

I’ve also had the park host come over with a fire extinguishers when BBQ ing brats in the park anchorage. Which was very nice of him. We gave him a cold beer and one of my ratherer well charred brats.
Kebabs are best at anchor as well rather than under sail.

One of my favourites is a nice secluded anchorage way up the west coast. Collect a few oysters and put them on the BBQ.
Or a freshly caught salmon on the BBQ within the hour.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Another one for the cobb , I never fancied having a BBQ on board because as already mentioned, hot coal,
But I was introduced to the cobb by another member here and not looked back , great little tool only draw back is cleaning it .
Although I found if we filled it with water while hot the next morning it almost cleaned it self .

 

[No Regrets]

Cobb all the way! 3 sizes, and a gas option too.

The Medium fits a whole chicken, will not burn anything, as it cooks cool and slow, but beautifully!

You can lift one up mid-cook and walk around with it, cook on a plastic table, so safe compared to a Charcoal BBQ.

All packs away in a modest bag which will hold a few accessories and half a dozen 'Cobblestones' (fuel rings)

Best of all, you can pack the bottom with foil wrapped vegetables such as peppers, carrots potatoes and cook them separately to the meat on top. Just remember it's essential to PLAN ahead, reckon 2-3 hours for a decent joint, an hour for sausages and burgers.

Use the foil inserts to save cleaning the lower section, but you'll need to scour the lid and cooking plate for sure!

Buy used, they don't wear out and you can buy spares if you break something. Reckon £3 to cook for 4.

 

[stranded]

Cobb all the way! 3 sizes, and a gas option too.

The Medium fits a whole chicken, will not burn anything, as it cooks cool and slow, but beautifully!

You can lift one up mid-cook and walk around with it, cook on a plastic table, so safe compared to a Charcoal BBQ.

All packs away in a modest bag which will hold a few accessories and half a dozen 'Cobblestones' (fuel rings)

Best of all, you can pack the bottom with foil wrapped vegetables such as peppers, carrots potatoes and cook them separately to the meat on top. Just remember it's essential to PLAN ahead, reckon 2-3 hours for a decent joint, an hour for sausages and burgers.

Use the foil inserts to save cleaning the lower section, but you'll need to scour the lid and cooking plate for sure!

Buy used, they don't wear out and you can buy spares if you break something. Reckon £3 to cook for 4.

I must say, I don’t recognise the cobb cooking times here or in some previous posts. OK, it is not as hot for bbqing as some dedicated options, but if given 10 minutes with the lid on for the heat to build it will do a perfectly good, striped, 6oz burger, in 10 minutes, or good fat butchers choice sausages in about 15 - we often use it as a diy tabletop griddle for guests to cook their own marinaded strips of steak, chunks of fish etc, in less than a couple of minutes per piece The key is that the lid needs to go back on whenever it can to rebuild the heat.

 

[PhillM]

+ Another for a Cobb. I spread a tarp over one side of the cockpit to save the varnish from getting scratched. Works beautifully. Last year I cooked sausages for about 20 people at a pontoon party.