12 best BBQs for summer

Whether your favoured fuel is charcoal, gas or pellets, make your summer sizzle with these glorious grills

CHARCOAL  

1 WEBER MASTER- TOUCH GBS E-5750

When your friends start calling you Crispin because you carbonise every meal you barbecue, you know it’s time to embrace convection-based kettle cooking.

The Master-Touch GBS E-5750 is a doddle to use. Simply put the crescent-shaped charcoal baskets on either side of the bowl. Leave the lid off, light the charcoal and retreat for about 25 minutes. Now drop your food onto the ample 57cm plated steel grate, put the lid on and go chat to your guests.

It’s also designed to accept Weber’s Gourmet BBQ System of optional inserts. Just remove the grate’s centre section and drop in the sear grate, pizza stone, Dutch oven or poultry roaster.

  £313.95, harrods.com 

2 LOTUSGRILL XXL

Do your neighbours hate you because of the plumes of smoke your barbecue creates? You need a near-smokeless charcoal offering from LotusGrill, guvnor.

It uses two fans to speed up the charcoal ignition process. According to the blurb, it takes only a few minutes for the charcoal to reach cooking temperature.

Even during the cooking process this thing creates less smoke than other models, doing so by dint of a rather unique charcoal loading method and an integrated steel shield to stop fats from dripping onto the coals.