Barbecue statistics - Australia - USA - UK

The worldwide market revenue for grills and roasters is projected to go over 7 billion USD by the end of 2022, here are a few Aus and UK statistics on BBQ use and purchase. 

BBQ FACT 1

As a result of the Covid Lockdown, BBQ & at-home eating & entertaining is now the UK’s No1 summer home leisure activity, with three out of four households now owning some type of BBQ grill

BBQ FACT 2

The overall BBQ & alfresco eating & entertaining market in 2021 was worth just over £2.2 billion, up from £150 million back in 1997.

BBQ FACT 3

500,000 Barbecues are sold in Australia yearly.

BBQ began on the islands in the Caribbean Sea. Spanish explorers led by Christopher Columbus found Native Americans slow smoking meats in the land he called Hispanoila. These Taino-Arawak and Caribbean natives used green wood to smoke meat over indirect heat.The word barbecue comes from the language of a Caribbean Indian tribe called the Taino. Their word for grilling on a raised wooden platform is barbacoa. The word first appeared in print in a Spanish explorer's account of the West Indies in 1526, according to Planet Barbecue.

BBQ FACT 4

According to the latest Roy Morgan Research data, almost two-thirds of Australian households own a barbecue. In certain places, this figure rises to more than three-quarters of households, with country South Australia emerging as the nation’s highest-density barbecue-owning region, just ahead of the ACT.

“Along with beer, beaches and sport, the barbecue is central to classic (and, admittedly, clichéd) notions of Australian identity, reaching its zenith with Paul Hogan’s famously ‘ocker’ TV advertisement urging the world to put another shrimp on the barbie. So the fact that barbecue ownership is so widespread among Aussie households is no surprise. Nor is the fact that Australian-born Aussies are 50% more likely than their Asian-born counterparts to live in a household with a barbecue in it.

BBQ FACT 5

Australia Day was cited as the most popular day for hosting a barbecue, with 86 per cent saying they intended to celebrate the nation’s birthday by cooking outdoors. Other popular holidays included Boxing Day (68 per cent), Christmas (56 per cent), Father’s Day (52 per cent) and Easter (48 per cent).

Australians said they were also willing to barbecue rain or shine, with 65 per cent of respondents saying they have barbecued in extreme weather conditions, from freezing temperatures to thunderstorms.

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Statistics taken from various parts of the internet, Barbitec cannot confirm its accuracy save to say that they come from genuine sources