About this. I was clicking around on REI - not because I camp, but because my mind thinks I should be camping. My real idea of camping involves our RV. Anyway, I stumbled on this "Gentleman's Grill"...
Fire Art you just use your Lodge grill press so you don't lose any precious kale. NapMaster I actually got mine at a garage sale but I got those images off Amazon. So they must sell them.
That is pretty neat. We used to just buy a disposable charcoal grill from the grocery store, toss everything but the grate, and hang the grate on the outside of the pack. Very light, but kind of annoying and would smudge the pack after the first use. Then we stopped taking fresh food altogether and only eat freeze dried meals now. All around lighter and easier. But not tastier.
I feel like it's gimicky and will likely warp, discolor or otherwise not maintain anything like a "gentleman's" function/appearance for more than a cook or two.
Pretty cool! Something i would def keep in my trunk...until i used it once, didnt clean it well and then promptly tossed it when i went to use it again a year later, lol.
It is definitely a gimmick. But when I was 25, if I had seen this, and figured I could "saunter" onto the beach with it, throw it down and cook something (hot dogs?), I would have bought it. A fool and his money - and I was pretty foolish back then. Wait, according to my wife...
Last time I really camped was when my son was a cub scout, and the only reason I went then was cause I was the scout leader. I am 6-6, 270, so finding sleeping bags and tents that fit our budget back then was a challenge. Plus, I have always been more of an "urban camper", meaning room service.
Once it gets that size maybe a smokey joe makes more sense. Actually I've been pining for a Weber go anywhere charcoal rig that I can trick out. I think a guy on here posted an awesome set of mods he did to his.
> Weber Genesis EP-330
> Grilla Grills Original Grilla (OG) pellet smoker with Alpha/Connect
> Pit Barrel Cooker (gone to a new home)
> WeberQ 2000 (on "loan" to a relative (I'll never see it again))
> Old Smokey Electric (for chickens mostly - when it's too nasty out
to fiddle with a more capable cooker)
> Luhr Jensen Little Chief Electric - Top Loader circa 1990 (smoked fish & jerky)
> Thermoworks Smoke
> 3 Thermoworks Chef Alarms
> Thermoworks Thermapen One
> Thermoworks Thermapen Classic
> Thermoworks Thermopop
> Thermoworks IR-GUN-S
> Anova sous vide circulator
> Searzall torch
> BBQ Guru Rib Ring
> WÜSTHOF, Dalstrong, and Buck knives
> Paprika App on Mac and iOS
I'm with you on the RV. We call what we do campering. Our RV is nothing fancy, but it was a giant step up in camping enjoyment after the kids came along.
Yeah, jerrybell, ours is kind of fancy, but the kids are grown and gone so we had a slightly bigger budget. Nothing like the diesel beasts we see a lot of, though, I drool over those.
That is for sure a gimmick. About 10-15% of the stuff REI sells is "Fake outdoor" stuff... things that LOOK like they're useful for camping/outdoor use, but are actually useless as a real outdoor item.
That lunch box grill, while cool (I kind of want one,) wouldn't really be useful in a camping situation. It's still too bulky to put in a backpack, and if you're car camping, there are much better options that aren't much larger. Also, the size of the "pit" pretty much limits you to charcoal use rather than open wood fire, which the other collapsible grill pictured in this thread would be capable of.... so you'd have to carry charcoal, too.
Now, all that said, the cool-factor of this thing is pretty high in my book.
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