Electric BBQs

An electric BBQ is the flat-balcony, terraced-garden option: no flame, no gas bottle, plug straight into a 13A socket. The cooking style is closer to a contact grill than a flame BBQ, with no wood smoke, but real char marks and the same cooking time as gas. This is the BBQ for households where charcoal smoke would be a neighbour problem, or where there's no outside gas connection. Aosom UK, Cheap Furniture Warehouse and Cherry Lane Garden Centres between them cover £11-£747. Heat output is the spec to focus on: under 2kW and the BBQ takes too long to recover after a flip; 2.2kW and above keeps temperature steady. Look for a removable grill plate for cleaning and a drip tray underneath. Electric BBQs work indoors on tabletops too with a fume extractor, a real benefit for British summer plans that go sideways.