How to barbecue with no gas?

By using a solar-powered barbecue, of course!

No more trips to the servo to get gas bottles. This barbecue is powered by the sun. The sun hits our roof, where the solar panels convert it to electricity, which powers our barbecue. For an evening cook, it runs off our Powerwall batteries instead. It's a Weber Pulse 2000, which moved with us from our previous home in NSW, sitting in storage for a year while we road tripped. Storage King doesn't allow gas bottles in its storage units, but that wasn't a problem for our "solar" barbecue.

In the past few weeks, I fired it up (sunned it up?) on a couple of occasions. It still does a great job. It has Weber's iGrill built in, with two plug-in meat probes that send an alert to my phone when the meat is ready. It shows the barbecue temperature on its big LED display.

This barbecue runs off a standard 10 A power point, so draws a max 2.2 kW, which seems perfect. For bigger cooking needs, you might have seen that new Bunnings (such as the one we frequent in Narre Warren) cook their sausage sizzles on electric barbecues connected to what look like 32 A sockets (theoretically 7.4 kW on single phase, or 22 kW on three phase), just like a dedicated AC EV charger.