My husband wasn’t a huge fan of doing bbqs. Mainly because it meant he was doing tea & secondly his excuse to deny the main reason that he cared so much for us all he was worried he wasn’t cooking the meat. Gave him this with a pack of beers & slowly built his confidence up. Now he has connected drinking whilst cooking tea & he is very happy. We have had plenty bbqs over the summer & has gained confidence.
Perfect size, love the colour. Most importantly, he hasn’t poisoned me.

We don’t BBQ that often, more often than not it is when we come home from work and smell the neighbours having a BBQ. We bought this Weber BBQ because it very sturdy, easy to assemble, large enough for two of us, easy to clean, takes little space up and during the winter months simply goes into the loft with ease.
The tough enamel coating comes up like new each time, the lids locks in place for easy transportation.
We use it in the garden but I would highly recommend it for the beach or camping trips. But it is still the perfect size for home use too.
One thing I must say though….. you MUST get a Weber chimney starter too. Makes lighting the charcoal easy and takes any stress out of the BBQ experience. 10/10 all the way!

Own a few Weber products. This makes cooking during camping or on the beach so much easier. It’s a good size and light weight. Quality is outstanding! Very well made portable braai!

Very easy to assemble, but much helped by other reviews urging caution on screw tightness. Cooks really well and closed down quickly. Very easy to clean, unlike previous barbecues. Very well made and much sturdier than it looks. Altogether a very clever piece of kit.

I’ve used this 4 or 5 times now and I’m really happy with it. There’s 3 of us and it’s a good size for that. I bought the ivory coloured one and it looks fantastic. Really nice quality, and sturdy. Super easy to use with the briquettes, and easy to clean. I haven’t had the occasion to take it outside of the garden yet with the recent lockdown, but it’s light enough and a good size to be portable and easy to move. I like the way there’s a metal piece which goes over the handle to stop it opening when it’s not in use. I expect I’ll take it on days out with me.

Thought I would buy a barbecue and decided this one looked smart and I only needed a small one so I could take it on camping trips. We cooked sausages and they cooked really good then we did a thin steak which took about 6 minutes I am pleased with my purchase. You can do all sorts of things we put small potatoes in it and they cooked lijed jackets. I never really been a barbecue person but I think this will get plenty of use and it’s easy to clean and easy to store we gave got the smokey Joe carry bag and the chimney starte

My father has a Smokey Joe, and we had a brilliant time with it last summer, so I bought another for our shared holiday house. I have a big bbq at my own place, and have made good use of it, but setting it up for one or two people is a huge waste of charcoal so I waited for a black Smokey Joe to come down in price (to justify owning two bbqs!). Unfortunately, it didn’t. But this one, a dreadful light yellowy-brown colour, was on massive special offer at the end of the season. It is a truly vile colour but it works like a dream.

This model comes with the invaluable carrying handle, which doubles as a lid rest (and is not provided if you order the Smokey Joe Original). It has a grate to keep the bottom vent clear and a grill on to which to put the items you are cooking. Both the bowl section and the lid have vents, which allow the draw and the heat to be controlled. It is otherwise nonadjustable (you cannot raise or lower the grill). It also comes with a measuring tub, which allows you to follow the instructions to put just the right amount of fuel into the bowl.

There are two instruction manuals, one to assemble the device and the other to use it. The assembly instructions are unusually good, providing easy to follow guidelines. I am useless with self assembly items but had this put together in 10 minutes. The other instruction guide includes invaluable guidelines for cooking small items like chops and sausages and larger items like roasting joints, with the lid off and on, and gives timing guidelines for various different meats, fish and vegetables.

Using it has been a joy. I have cooked both the standard sausages, steak, chops, and burgers fare, which was easy and very satisfying. It means that if I feel like it of an evening I can just throw a bbq together with no real thought. It does a great job with swordfish and tuna, as well as vegetables.

With rather more trouble I have also cooked large cuts of meat over a drip tray, although it took a few goes to get this right. A drip tray is a metal tin filled with water, which is set in the middle of the charcoal. The meat is placed over the drip tray on the grill to prevent it burning. Because the drip tray occupies quite a large area it means that lighting the charcoal is more difficult because there is less of the bowl in use to place charcoal and firelighters. I used too many large chunks of charcoal in combination with too few fire lighters first time round and had to start again. I also managed to drop some of the firelighter into the water on one occasion, which flavours the water, of course, and would flavour the food if allowed to remain. It’s a knack, but it works when you get into the routine.

It takes up very little space, is easy to lift, and is easy to store.

This is a professional piece of kit and well worth owning. I do wish that I had forked out the extra for the black one though, because the colour makes me flinch every time I look at it!