About this product
Most portable charcoal grills ask you to squat. This Naturehike rack is built the other way around – it opens to 84 cm tall, which puts the grate at roughly the height of a kitchen counter, so you can turn meat, drink a beer and talk to people without spending the evening bent double over the coals.
The frame is cold-rolled steel with a stainless steel grate measuring 64 x 24 cm. That long, narrow shape is deliberate: it takes skewers and ribs laid across it end to end, and it gives you a hot zone and a cooler zone along the length so meat can finish away from the fiercest coals. The height is adjustable, so you can drop the grate down for a quick sear or raise it to cook something through slowly.
Underneath sits a detachable enamelled ash catcher. Enamel is the practical choice here – it wipes clean where bare steel discolours and rusts, and because the tray lifts out, cleaning up means carrying a tray to the bin instead of tipping the whole grill over. There is a tool holder on the frame for tongs and a spatula, which sounds like a small thing until you have put hot tongs down on a camp table.
Folded it is 65 x 34 x 9 cm and around 6.7 kg, flat enough to travel down the side of a boot or behind a seat. It suits vehicle-based camping in Mikumi or Ruaha, a beach braai at Bagamoyo or Kigamboni, and just as easily a small terrace in Dar es Salaam where a permanent braai would not fit. It burns charcoal, which is what most people in Tanzania already have to hand.




























Naturehike Vertical Barbecue Grill Rack