Barbecues: Three top small outdoor cooking appliances

We get the spec on our top three barbecues, outdoor ovens and fire pits for tiny spaces

Big Green Egg, left, Rawsaol fire pit, top right, Everdure Cube, below right.

I talk about barbecues a lot for someone who doesn’t have one. You see my garden is so tiny that I can’t justify getting one when my kitchen oven is three feet away. But I love them, and I want one, so I do the only thing I can do which is to extensively browse online and in garden shops, and to show up at every outdoor cooking event I get invited to (or invite myself to). Which, this summer, hasn’t been many. 

Maybe we’ll have a spectacular August? Here’s hoping. Needing somewhere to channel my desires while I resist purchasing, I’ve compiled a list of the outdoor cooking appliances I would buy, should I ever throw caution to the wind. These are BBQs, outdoor ovens, pizza ovens, fire pits, and chimineas that I have seen, coveted, and scoured reviews about over the past few years.