BBQ reviews
BBQ reviews of kit I’ve actually cooked on, in my own back garden. The Big Green Egg Large had five months and twenty cooks before I scored it, and I owned a Weber Master-Touch for twenty years, so I can tell you what’s really good about each one.
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Latest reviews
ThermoPro TP20 — UK review
Five cooks with a £38 wired leave-in, a thirteen-hour pulled pork, and why the pork presets are eight degrees out of date.
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Weber Master-Touch — UK review
More than twenty years on a Master-Touch, why I’d buy the £299 GBS over the Premium, and the £289 Smart Ring.
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Big Green Egg Large — UK review
Five months and twenty cooks on the Big Green Egg Large — what it does well, where it tops out, and what £1,495 actually buys.
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Every review here starts from a cook — not a spec-sheet summary, not an unboxing, not a list compiled by someone who hasn’t lit a fire. My kettle and kamado reviews come from months of cooking on each one before I give a verdict, and they say where the kit tops out as well as where it’s worth the money.
A verdict here means months, not a weekend. The Big Green Egg Large had five months and twenty cooks behind it before I put a score on it; the Master-Touch has had twenty years. It is slower than most review sites, and it is what lets me tell you where the kit tops out rather than how it felt out of the box.
What that covers today: a £38 leave-in thermometer, a £230 charcoal kettle and a £1,495 ceramic kamado. Three very different amounts of money, and each review says what the kit does well and where it stops.
If there’s a specific bit of UK BBQ kit you want reviewed, drop me a note via the About page.
Common questions
What is the best barbecue in the UK?
It depends what you need it for. It’s a bit like asking what bike to buy: are you riding 200k, getting to work, or taking the kids to school? For me it’s the Big Green Egg Large, which I’d buy again at full price. If you want a kettle, the Weber Master-Touch is the sensible one.