Propane or Charcoal : Seperate Tank or trailer Fed?

It depends upon how much you plan on using it. If only once in a while, a small disposable charcoal unit is easiest to deal with. If using it all time and needed to prepare a LOT of stuff, then something like Weber-Q is good.

If using a gas grill, taping into your camper lines can be a challenge. Not so much tapping into the lines, as much as the pressure regulator differences with the trailer and your gas BBQ. If we were to do it again, we'd do it like we did before, a separate propane tank and small BBQ. That way, you can position the BBQ anywhere. With a hose attached to the camper, you are restricted only the distance equal to the length of the hose. That's not always the best spot to set up a grill.

In the end, both need to be clean up. I think cleaning up a gas grill is more difficult than a charcoal grill. But, if you don't mind black soot touching everything when you pack it way, this it really doesn't matter. Shove it in a black trash bag and stow it away!

HOWEVER, we got tired of both gas and charcoal clean up, and got rid of both. We use an electric griddle now, or over an open fire.

We use a small weber and charcoal for all of our BBQ'n. Since we are primarily weekend campers the process works great for us. If we were full timers, we probably wouldn't use the charcoal every dinner like we do now.

We do have an LPG tank that I bring out to the picnic table that I use with a stove that I can use with our cast iron frying pan for breakfast cookin.

When we were traveling FT we used a Weber Smokey Joe Charcoal BBQ with 14" grill.
Load it up first night with briquettes then close vents/place lid on to snuff out charcoal.

Fire it up next night...repeat each night adding briquettes as needed. Then last night of use leave vents open/lid off and let charcoal burn to ash.

Dump next morning, close vents/place lid on and stow in side compartment with bag of charcoal.

Grill surface is big enough for 4 steaks, or 6+ burger patties, bunches of hotdogs etc.

They also have an 18" version

Love charcoal..........propane just doesn't do it for us


Weber Smokey Joes