Charcoal spit roasters
One handle
turns the lot.
The grate is one piece on a single pivot. Turn the handle and every skewer moves at once, so nothing sits over the same coal long enough to burn.
Why it turns
Charcoal never burns evenly.
A charcoal bed always has hot spots. Rather than chasing them with tongs, one handle turns the whole grate at once, so every piece changes face at the same moment and takes the same heat.
Three frames.
Six ways to run them.
Each frame comes as a flat grate or racked for skewers. The frame decides how it behaves outdoors. The rack decides what you cook on it.
F1Adjustable
Open frame. The charcoal tray height adjusts, so you set the gap between coals and grate.
F1Skewer
The adjustable frame racked for skewers, all turned on one handle.
F2Enclosed
Enclosed body. Holds heat steadier when there is wind, which is most of the time.
F2Skewer
The enclosed body with the full skewer rack fitted.
F5Large Flip
The big frame. Full-width flip grate, built for cooking for a crowd.
F5Skewer
The big frame in skewer configuration.
Spit roasters and skewers
Charcoal spit roasters and skewer grills, turned by hand
Every charcoal spit roaster we sell turns on one handle, and a single movement flips the entire load at once, so nothing sits waiting its turn while the side facing the coals keeps cooking. There is no motor to wire up or wear out, and you set the pace of each turn to suit the fire. Each of the three body sizes comes either as a full-width flip grate or as a skewer rack, and you can compare all six under charcoal spit roasters.
If most of what you cook goes on a stick, start with the charcoal skewer grills. The rack takes 16, 24 or 32 skewers geared to one another, so a single turn rolls the whole row and the last kebab is never a rotation behind the first. It handles souvlaki, shish kebab, arrosticini, satay, cevapi and shashlik equally well. The same rack is also built into an enclosed body for windy sites, and the largest frame in the range comes racked for skewers too. Delivery is free anywhere in Australia.
The build
Brushed steel,
visible fixings.
Nothing is hidden behind a moulded shell. The frame is stainless, the charcoal tray is thickened high-carbon steel, and the fixings sit on the outside where you can get a spanner to them. It assembles in minutes and comes apart the same way.
Enclosed and large frames
Enclosed charcoal grills for the wind, large frames for a crowd
On an exposed or coastal block, an enclosed charcoal grill is the sensible choice. Its solid walls hold the heat the coals make close to the food, so a gust cannot drag it away from one side of the grate, and you burn less charcoal keeping the fire steady. The tray slides out from the side, which lets you add fuel without lifting anything off the grill. The enclosed F2 is sold with a flip grate or as a skewer grill.
The large charcoal grills solve a different problem: cooking so much that working in batches would leave the first plates cold before the last are served. On the F5 the full load goes on together and comes off together, whether you run the flip grate or the skewer version. Be realistic about how often you cook at that scale, since the F1 or F2 is plenty for most households. To weigh them up, browse the full charcoal BBQ range or ask us which frame suits you.
Choosing
Start with where
you will cook.
- Balcony or windy site
- F2 Box-Style
- Backyard, mixed use
- F1 Adjustable
- Cooking for a crowd
- F5 Large Flip
The enclosed body shields the coals, so heat holds steadier in moving air.
The tray height moves, so you can run it hot and close or low and slow.
The largest frame and the widest grate. Buy this one if numbers are the problem.