Boaty Bar-B-Cue

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We are looking at different ideas for bar-b-cuing on the boat. Have previously used a Cobb - great for cooking on the cockpit table, but it's not a bar-b-cue!

I like the look of the Magma gas ones, but £300 to £400 by the time you buy some accessories seems a bit ridiculous - 1% of the boat's value!

What do you do?
 
We have a Cobb and a C-Chef.

As you say, the Cobb is really on oven, but the C-Chef is a high quality product, in stainless steel and it takes disposable charcoal BBQ's. I like the built in shelf, and we in lip it and use it on the beach, or in the woods as well.

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I've got a Magma charcoal one. Excellent bit of kit. Chose charcoal, as its a lot cheaper, also gave us another cooking method should the propane system fail.

Can't use it at sea as the grub falls off. :)
 
I've used the round Magma charcoal ones in the past - pretty good.

Years ago I knocked up a crude frame that could hold one of those foil disposables, hooked onto the pushpit of a charter boat. Worked ok although it would have been better with a low wind-shield (and sausage-catcher!) around it, also the disposables are not as good as a proper barbecue and charcoal.

Pete
 
Like Pete, I made a wooden frame for a disposable bbq which sat securely on the back corner rail which provided a great cooking work space. The wood has not burned due to small metal inserts at each corner. Cost, around nothing as the ply was off cuts! I've got a pic somewhere....
 
I've now got one of those round gas ones that was on sale a few winters ago, really like it.

Before that I bought a log shaped stainless steel one from Debenhams, the type that can be opened flat if you want to use it double sizes. I drilled some holes in the side of the bottom section to take a bracket and bolted on some stainless steel threaded bar to a rail clamp. Cost about £40 in total, worked just fine and lasted a few seasons until the cheap, thin stainless steel started to give up .
 
Massive Cobb fan here...I love the way you can just put it anywhere...it usually sits on my cockpit table and is a real focal point, as well as no sausages dropped overboard!

If it's too "oveny" leave the lid off and it's a proper BBQ. And it's awesome for cooking haloumi cheese!
 
A friend brought a Cobb onto our boat and it pissed grease all over the rear coachroof - not impressive.
We've graduated from a supermarket handbasket containing disposable BBQs* to a magma gas job.
Only caveat seems to be - keep an eye on where the fat is dripping to - greasy RIBs aren't much fun.
* note : you don't lose food from a setup like this unless the gulls get it.
 
michael_w said:
I've got a Magma charcoal one. Excellent bit of kit. Chose charcoal, as its a lot cheaper, also gave us another cooking method should the propane system fail.

Can't use it at sea as the grub falls off. :)
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Superb barbecue. Beats many others that we used over the years at home. Put the lid on and nothing burns. Take it off and you got bbq smell! :) Now it's at home I need to knock up a rail to use it.
 
I have one of these which is sufficient for 2-3 people and sits in the cockpit or the beach, or the pontoon, or pretty much anywhere else I choose. I have a clip lock plastic container full of briquettes (which seem to work better than charcoal in this bbq for some reason) in the bilge. Just because it's on a boat doesn't mean it absolutely must be for a boat or from a chandlery.
Edit to add that I line it with foil to aid cleaning up and never throw hot coals over the side as they will float and fizzle against your topsides!
http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-portable-bucket-charcoal-bbq/207-3429.prd
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Lass in the Lakeland shop was telling me her kids prefer the burnt BBQ effect. Therefore, when using the Cobb for burgers and sausages she replaces the cooking plate with the roasting rack - the food is then directly over the coals.

Paul
 
We have been using a cheap gas fired lava rocks one in the cockpit for years. It gets used about five days out of seven and the last one cost £29, after about five years the burner rusted through but that's a pretty economic cooker. The taste is indistinguishable from cooking on charcoal but it has the great advantage that as soon as we have eaten we can pack it away, nothing to dispose of. Several times when we had a Magma charcoal one we needed to move because of changing weather conditions, which was quite difficult and I always hated tipping the ash overboard.
 
Got one of the really cheap jobbies that hang off a bracket on the pushpit. Does what it says on the tin at a sensible price. Only trouble is, I cant recall what its called or where I bought it
 
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