Best barbecue grill tests, other equipment and fuel tests and comparisons

The quest to find the best barbecue grill, tongs, charcoal, grids, ovens and telling it like it is.

Can you stand the heat?

Submit your barbecue tool or fuel to the tough tests and sometimes cruel criticism of Captain Barbecue. Or, if it does what it is supposed to do and does it well, bask in the beatitudes bestowed upon it. Form below.

The Captain Barbecue BAT equipment rating system

The French origin of the word barbecue lends itself perfectly to the best barbecue grill test, i.e. grilling the whole animal over fire from barbe (beard) to queue (tail). Good features get up to two beards (BB), bad ones up to two tails (TT) and average (A) is in between.

Tests

The Weber 57 cm kettle - wonderful roasting with the ambience of a washing machine

The original and often-copied Weber kettle grill has remained one of the favourite kettle barbecues made. As an oven it is outstanding, as a best barbecue grill it does not rate at all. Full review.

The Cobb barbecue cooking system, the little barbecue that wouldn't

This innovative and altruistic design was one of the Time Magazine's thirty best inventions of 2001 (with wrinkle-free shirt and stink-free shoes). Full review.

Simple and effective: the Fire Dragon barbecue blow pipe and fire poker

Marketed by the same guy who pioneered marketing wind-up radios, this simple and effective lung-powered tool (yes, no batteries here) turns anyone who puts their lips to it into a fan. Full review.

Have your tools tested

Do you manufacture the best barbecue grill or other barbecue equipment or fuel? Are you a creative type that has come up with a new barbecue dojigger that would benefit from some exposure - or die from it? (By the way - the Pimp my Braai page deals with the totally off the wall material.)

If so, submit it below for best barbecue grill and other equipment and fuel tests.

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