Grill accessories
Grill accessories covers the parts and fuels around a barbecue you already own, for a UK garden, patio or campsite. Tongs, gloves, aprons, brushes, grates, plates, covers, thermometers, charcoal, firelighters and smoking wood are different products. A sheet on the grate is not a mat under the barbecue.
Choose the card that matches the job. Lighting charcoal, turning food and adding wood smoke are not the same purchase, and a wheeled table is not the grill. Listing details stay on the comparison, so this page can stay put when a model changes.
Grill accessories
Barbecue apron
A cloth or canvas bib for sauce and grease
A barbecue apron is a cloth or canvas bib that keeps sauce and grease off your clothes while you cook on a grill.
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Barbecue briquettes
Pressed charcoal fines for a kettle
Barbecue briquettes are pressed charcoal fines in a repeatable shape, for a stackable bed on a charcoal grill.
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Barbecue cover
A textile shell for a barbecue left outside
A barbecue cover is a textile shell against rain and sun for a barbecue that stays outside, sized to the cooker with the lid shut.
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Barbecue gloves
Heat gloves for a grate or a short lift
Barbecue gloves are heat gloves for a grate, a chimney starter, a tray or a short lift, in silicone, leather or a pit style.
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Barbecue tongs
A long pair for turning food on the grate
Barbecue tongs turn food on a kettle or gas grill without piercing it, with a reach that keeps your hand off the fire.
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Wooden barbecue tongs
All-wood tongs, or wood only on the handle
Wooden barbecue tongs are either all bamboo or teak, or stainless tongs with wood only on the handle so the steel does not heat your hand.
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Barbecue tool set
A turner, tongs, and sometimes a case
A barbecue tool set is a turner, a pair of tongs, or both, sometimes with a fork, a brush, skewers and a case.
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BBQ basting brush
A silicone brush or a cotton mop
A BBQ basting brush puts oil, glaze or a thin mop sauce on food, as a short silicone brush, a long grilling brush, or a cotton mop.
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BBQ mat
A sheet on the grate, or a mat underneath
A BBQ mat is either a thin non-stick sheet for the grill grate or a larger mat under the barbecue.
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BBQ pizza oven attachment
A hood or insert that borrows barbecue heat
A BBQ pizza oven attachment borrows heat from a barbecue you already own, as a grate hood, a kettle riser, a side-burner box or a pellet insert.
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Bluetooth grill thermometer
A leave-in probe that talks to a phone
A Bluetooth grill thermometer is usually a leave-in meat probe that sends core temperature, and often the air around the food, to a phone or a base.
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Brass grill brush
A softer wire brush for the cooking bars
A brass grill brush is a handled wire brush for barbecue grates, sold because brass is softer than stainless steel.
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Cast iron grill grate
The grid the food cooks on
A cast iron grill grate is the grid food cooks on, as a pair for a gas barbecue, a single grate, or a campfire grid with legs.
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Charcoal
Lumpwood fuel, not the grill itself
Barbecue charcoal is solid fuel for a charcoal grill, and the useful split is piece size, dust, and whether the bag is instant-light.
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Chimney starter
A metal tube that lights charcoal
A chimney starter is a metal tube with a grate and a handle. You light plain charcoal underneath, then pour it into the barbecue.
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Coconut briquettes
Pressed coconut shell for the grate
Coconut briquettes are charcoal pressed from coconut shell into a grate fuel, and they are not the same product as small hookah cubes.
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Coconut charcoal
Carbonised coconut shell, cubes or pillows
Coconut charcoal is carbonised coconut shell, as a small cube for a coil burner or a larger piece for a kettle.
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Cold smoke generator
A maze, a tube, or a pump and hose
A cold smoke generator adds wood smoke in a lidded barbecue or a box, as a dust maze, a pellet tube, or an electric pump with a hose.
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Firelighter
Waxed wood wool or a solid cube
A firelighter is a small solid starter for charcoal, briquettes, logs or kindling, usually waxed wood wool or a white cube.
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Firelighter liquid
A bottled starter for cold charcoal
Firelighter liquid is the bottled starter you pour or squeeze onto cold charcoal to get a garden barbecue going.
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Griddle plate
A plate for a barbecue or hob you own
A griddle plate is a flat or ridged surface you set on a barbecue, hob, oven or camp stove you already own.
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Griddle plate cast iron
A heavy iron slab, often reversible
A cast iron griddle plate is a heavy iron slab, usually reversible, with a flat face and a ridged face for a hob, a grate or a fire.
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Grill basket
A holder so small pieces stay on the grate
A grill basket is a perforated metal holder on the grate so vegetables, prawns and small pieces do not fall through the bars.
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Grill brush
A brush for burnt food on the bars
A grill brush cleans the cooking bars on a barbecue, and the useful check is whether the wires and the handle stay put.
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Grill cart
A wheeled table, not the gas trolley
A grill cart is a wheeled prep table for a barbecue, a portable pizza oven or a griddle, not the trolley built into a gas barbecue.
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Grill cleaner
A brush, a pad or a spray for the grate
A grill cleaner is the brush, pad or spray you use to get burnt food and grease off barbecue grates.
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Grill grate lifter
A tool for lifting a hot grate
A grill grate lifter picks up a hot cooking grate so you can add charcoal or fit a heat deflector without grabbing the bars.
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Grill mat
A sheet on the bars, or a pad under the grill
A grill mat is either a thin non-stick sheet on the grate or a larger pad under the barbecue on a deck, patio or lawn.
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Grill spatula
A steel turner for burgers and flat plates
A grill spatula is a stainless-steel turner for lifting food on a barbecue, a plancha or a cast-iron plate.
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Grill thermometer
Instant-read, leave-in, or a pit gauge
A grill thermometer may be a folding instant-read, a wired leave-in, a wireless probe, or a gauge that reads the air in the cooker.
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Inkbird grill thermometer
A leave-in probe from this maker
An Inkbird grill thermometer is a leave-in probe with a receiver, or a cable-free probe that talks to a base, for a long cook with the lid shut.
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Leather barbecue apron
A hide bib for fat and a short burst of heat
A leather barbecue apron is a hide bib for fat spit and a short burst of heat at an outdoor grill, not a cotton gift apron.
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Meat fork
A two-tine fork for carving
A meat fork is a two-tine carving fork for pinning a joint, a bird or a steak while you slice.
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Plancha griddle plate
A solid plate that sits on the grate
A plancha griddle plate is a solid metal sheet or casting that sits on a barbecue grate or a hob, so food cooks by contact.
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Rib rack
A stand that holds slabs on edge
A rib rack stands pork rib slabs on edge so several slabs share a small grate or a roasting tin.
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Rotisserie
A spit kit, a countertop oven, or a stand
A rotisserie is a spit that turns food while it cooks, as a kit for a barbecue you own, a countertop oven, or a stand over charcoal.
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Shish kebab skewers
Reusable metal sticks for kebabs
Shish kebab skewers are reusable metal sticks for meat and vegetables on a barbecue, under a grill, or in an oven.
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Smoker pellets
Wood pellets for flavour or for fuel
Smoker pellets are compressed wood sold either to flavour food or to fuel a pellet cooker, and the bag has to match the appliance.
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Smoking chips
Small hardwood pieces you smoulder
Smoking chips are small hardwood pieces you smoulder on a lidded barbecue so the food picks up wood aroma while the fuel does the cooking.
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Smoking dust
Fine hardwood for a cold-smoke setup
Smoking dust is fine hardwood for a cold-smoke generator, a tray smoker or a small foil pouch, not a bag of chips for a long hot cook.
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Smoking plank
A board you cook on
A smoking plank is a board you cook on so the wood flavours the food and keeps it off the grate.
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Smoking thermometer
Pit air and meat temperature together
A smoking thermometer stays with a long cook: pit temperature at the grate and internal temperature in the meat, with the lid shut.
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Wood wool firelighter
Waxed wood twists for charcoal or a stove
A wood wool firelighter is a small twist of shredded wood, usually coated in wax, used to start charcoal, a log burner or a campfire.
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Weber charcoal barbecue
Kettle size and who you cook for
Compare nine Weber charcoal barbecues on amazon.co.uk, from about £49.49 to £348.23. See kettle size, lid thermometer, ash system, and the UK warranty.
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Wireless grill thermometer
Leave-in probe, radio and heat limit
Wireless grill thermometer comparison of 12 amazon.co.uk listings, about £26.99 to £109.99, covering radio, screens, heat limits, a top pick and best value.
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Wood wool
Waxed nests or loose hamper fill
Wood wool compared for UK stoves and barbecues in 2026: waxed nests, pence per piece, loose hamper fill, and what each listing does not actually prove.
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