$450 at The BBQ Store
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The dad who camps or tailgates and will not accept that gas tastes the same as coals
Compact portable charcoal grill built for camping, tailgating, picnics and backyard barbecues.
Tabletop charcoal is the gap almost nobody fills: too small to justify dragging a kettle along, too good to hand over to a flimsy gas twin-burner. This one is built heavy enough to hold its heat on a windy campsite table, which is the exact place cheap portables fail.
Dispatch and transit are separate windows and the estimate on a product page is usually only the second one. How long Australia Post actually takes.
30 days from delivery. Fine unless you buy very early.
Unused, brand new, original unopened packaging. Excludes special order, custom, clearance and perishable.
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The BBQ Store’s delivery and returns pages were read on 3 September 2026. Policies change without notice; theirs at checkout is the one that binds.
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A stocking filler or add-on for the dad who already owns a pizza oven, and not a standalone present for anyone.
The dad who already has a pizza oven or a serious grill and keeps saying he is still dialling it in, not the dad who has no outdoor cooker to point it at.
The dad with a deck or pergola he never sits on after dark, less so someone in an apartment with a balcony too small to string anything across.
The dad who already owns a pizza oven and keeps losing pizzas on the launch, and pointless for anyone without an oven to launch into.
We will email you three weeks before Christmas, and three weeks before Father’s Day, with the shortlist already narrowed and the post still able to get there.
Two or three emails a year. Not a newsletter.