Spec me a gas BBQ

BUDFORCE · 27 Aug 2019 at 12:41

And before we get into the gas vs charcoal this is in addition to a charcoal BBQ I actually have 3 charcoal BBQs but anyway.

I have a pretty old and tired gas BBQ, I have given it a good refurb a year or two back, but it's leaking gas from the metal joints and pretty badly corroded in places, it's at least 10 years old so not had a bad run.

I'm looking for as much of a direct replacement as possible. The BBQ has one large long and thin burner, and a simple metal grill over, it uses butane.

I have converted it slightly by resting a metal mesh on top of the burner to place lava bricks on, and the grill goes over that. It's so the food doesn't get that direct heat from the flame, more of a radiated heat plus the fat drips and burns on the coals giving the food a slightly more smoky taste.

The grill size or cooking area is say just big enough to place 2 spatchcocked chickens on, I'm not after anything larger. It has a lid.

So to summarise, really I'm after a relatively simple gas BBQ, it would need to run on butane though.

Edit: a quick Google suggests you can use butane on pretty much any BBQ even if it's sold to use propane.

EDIT 2: Here is a photo of the current one

FTM · 27 Aug 2019 at 14:48

I love my char broil...very robust...but its like Weber, you get what you pay for

theres no suprise weber are at the top of the tree...I got my char broil stupidly cheap thanks to asda making a mistake I suspect

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 00:16

+1 for Char Broil. If you don't need a freestanding one, check out the Char Broil X200 Grill2Go portable one. Great quality, the grill is solid and can go in the dishwasher and you can hook it up to a full-size butane tank via a couple of £10 adapters (can't remember where I got mine but PM me for details if you get one and want to do this).

BUDFORCE · 11 Nov 2019 at 07:45

soulhunter123 said:
+1 for Char Broil. If you don't need a freestanding one, check out the Char Broil X200 Grill2Go portable one. Great quality, the grill is solid and can go in the dishwasher and you can hook it up to a full-size butane tank via a couple of £10 adapters (can't remember where I got mine but PM me for details if you get one and want to do this).

Hi, did you manage to get it to fit a propane or butane bottle?

After much shopping around I think I'm gonna go for this BBQ, but it seems to run off little disposable gas bottles, they sell an adapter as an extra that'll connect it up to a 27mm clip on propane, but as far as I can tell, no way to connect it to a butane 21mm clip on unless you figured it out?