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Living in an apartment in Brooklyn, space is always at a premium. For everything we buy, the question is always "where will we store it?" more than anything else. So when we were looking for a small, portable charcoal grill that we could bring out to Prospect Park.
I looked at Weber's Smokey Joe (which is the one we see others with most often) and Go-Anywhere, but decided that they wouldn't exactly slide into the closet easily. So I Googled for portable grills, and found mention of the Ecoque Portable Grill.
It does exactly as they claim:
It collapses down to store easily (I haven't measured to see that it's exactly one inch, but it's pretty close), but it puts together quickly and easily.
It uses less charcoal that you'd otherwise dump into a grill its size, and it heats up quickly to be ready to use.
When you're grilling, it cooks things well. We've done hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, veggie dogs and veggie burgers, and everything that came off it tasted great. It didn't have that huge smokey charcoal flavor you might get from other grills, I'm sure due to the lesser amount of briquettes, but it was good enough. I suspect in the future we'll play around with adding some flavored wood chips to the coals to improve the smokiness.
Once your coals go out, it also cools down quickly. I was sure that I'd have to let it sit for an hour to cool down before I could transport it back home, but within 5 minutes or so of getting the coals out (I used their optional foil liners), everything was perfectly cool to the touch and we threw it right back into the carrying bag.
Finally, cleanup. When I got back home, I scrubbed away at the cooking grate with a Dobie pad and some baking soda. It is perfectly clean? No. But this is a BBQ we're talking about, and there's always going to be charred food stuck to it.
All in all, the Ecoque is a really impressive portable grill. We got lots of looks and a bunch of questions using it out in the park, and we may have managed to convert a few people into future purchasers. Ours may be the first one I've ever seen in person, but something tells me that we'll be seeing more of them out and around soon.
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