Grill Transportation

Thanks all for the suggestions. I am trying to not use propane for cooking. This is just personal preference. I would like to keep the same cooking style/options that I have at home, whether that be smoking a rack of ribs, reverse searing a tri-tip or roasting a chicken. When I get the trailer I will see what kind of space I can have for the kettle. 

check out the Cobb ovens.  Very nice charcoal setup, versatile and uses very little charcoal.  You can grill, steam, griddle, cook a whole chicken, pizza whatever.  

Originally posted by lostagain That looks like a really nice unit, but it's a little costly for retired folks like me.  At 13X the price of the Smokey Joe, I'll mess with the charcoal.  Since we don't have the lotteries here in Nevada I'll never get rich (the casinos here have lousy odds and you come out smelling like an ash tray).

  Watch for sales.. we paid $319, delivered, from Sam's.. That was grill, cover, carrying bag, couple bags of pellets.

I don't want to post what we paid for our Smokin' Brothers pellet grill we use at home.. but it was.. more. Oh, and I are a retired folk too.. (but she isn't )

also, it seems to me, that, out in the west, you guys run into "no open fires" restrictions way more often then us back east, and I am not sure how the forest service handles a Weber.. but that may be exactly why you carry it.. but if not, the GMG is a completely enclosed flame.. as are all pellet grills.

Originally posted by TheFornstars Originally posted by furpod I have never tried to take a large kettle with us camping. we do carry a Weber Smokey Joe.. but use it rarely now days. A couple years ago we started carrying a Green Mountain Grills Davy Crockett. It is the very best cooking appliance for camping ever invented in my humble opinion. We did 10 days at the beach in SC last year, 4 adults, two campers, at least 90% of all our cooking, breakfast, lunch and dinner, was done on that little pellet grill. That Green Mountain grill looks nice. How hard on the battery is that grill?

Very low draw. We used it off grid for a week, along with everything else, didn't feel it was drawing hardly much at all. When up and running, it's a computer fan, a very small auger motor, and the brain. It draws a bit more during startup, but that only takes about 2 minutes for the hot rod to get the pellets lit. I have never put a DMM on it, but doubt it's more than an amp when cooking.