Camping? Glamping? You need a portable BBQ!

Whether you’re going camping the regular way, turning up the dial with a spot of posh glamping or simply going out for the day and fancy whisking up a BBQ lunch on the move, a portable BBQ is the way to go. These ones pack away in a car boot or campervan with no problem at all and are also super-easy to use. You can barbie the best, most popular basics on one of these, everything from burgers, bangers, steaks, chicken and fish to tasty barbecued veggies.

Lifestyle Small Portable BBQ

A small gas BBQ you can take anywhere you like, the Lifestyle Portable Camping Gas BBQ is a bit of a classic with its retro good looks, cheerful scarlet body and fold-able chrome legs, which mean it packs up neatly into a manageable rectangular box.

Your delivery includes the special lava rocks you need, which heat up super-hot. Because it runs on gas you don’t have to worry about carting bags of messy charcoal around with you. The generous-sized chrome cooking grill is great quality and the heat deflector shield inside the lid keeps the heat where it’s needed. All you have to buy extras-wise is a hose and propane gas regulator, both easy to find online and in camping shops, plus a cannister of camping gas, which you simply fit on the nozzle. Then you’re ready to rock and roll.

This might be the simplest barbie possible but that doesn’t mean it isn’t versatile. It is, and you can cook more or less anything on it thanks to the efficient paddle burner. Once she’s opened up and set up ready to go, your dimensions are 49 cm wide, 29.5 deep and 28.5cm high.

The Tepro Hartford Charcoal Pedestal BBQ

This stylish Tepro Hartford Charcoal Pedestal BBQ is small and neat enough to take away with you, as long as you have the space in your car boot, campervan, caravan or trailer. It measures H82.5 x W58 x D43cm, and you can either dial down the cooking height to 72cm if you like, or keep it at full height. There are four height choices for cooking different foods at different rates.

Made from top quality stainless steel, the clever air vent inside adjusts so you can tinker with the air flow, changing the charcoal’s burn rate to achieve excellent fuel efficiency. The stainless steel cooking grid has two removable handles and the cooking area itself is just under 40cm across, 16 inches in old money.

Perfect for portability, she’s easy to clean and the removable ash collector catches the ash so you don’t have to mess about. A gorgeous silvery steel body completes the picture, and it holds 1.9kg charcoal at a time for good, long cooking sessions.

The Lifestyle portable gas BBQ

Put style first and enjoy amazing performance thanks to this alternative portable barbie with its gorgeous egg-shaped design. The Lifestyle Portable Gas BBQ features heavy duty curved legs to keep things stable and a generous cooking surface measuring 47cm by 36cm. The shelves at each side are removable. Keep them on to use as serving spaces or a place for side plates and condiments, or take them off for a simpler profile that takes up less space.

Look under the smooth hood and there’s a U-shaped burner that heats the heavy cast iron grates evenly. The enamelled lid is well insulated. And if you like you can also buy a Portable BBQ trolley and carry bag designed for the job, making your life even easier.

There’s a temperature gauge in the hood for easy checking and the piezo ignition makes it unusually easy to light. It works with both Propane and Butane gas, easy to find in camping stores, outdoor stores and some garages. All you need is a gas hose and regulator and you’re off. It radiates 3 kW heat and the total dimensions are 93cm wide including the shelves, 44cm deep and 40cm high. She weighs in at a sturdy 10.8 kilos, a sign of a great quality item.

Wherever you adventure to this year, we wish you a splendid time enhanced by wonderful BBQ food, cooked to perfection on a barbie that’s small, neat, works like a dream and is easy to carry around.