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Charmates by GasMate – SMALL CHARCOAL SPIT ROASTER – Review Done! Thank you to GasMate for sending this to us…As usual your products are good value and great for the BBQ Learner..

Model No. CSB001

The Charmate Small Charcoal Spit Roaster is a solid fuel Spit Roaster with a 240V motor that can carry up to 10Kgs. The solid steel construction firebox takes charcoal or heat briquettes. With a rotisserie kit included, you will have the hardware to cook delicious spit roasts in your backyard, or it is compact enough to take on your next camping trip.

So easy to put together and so well priced!

If you want to start spit roasting this is YOUR BBQ, easy to assemble easy to use and easy to cook, just remember that the charcoal needs to be fairly plentiful, we used enough, we thought to cover the bottom with the grills on top and we needed another 30%. if you leave the grills off, no problem, but we thought that we could cook other stuff which we did. So experiment as this has to be the best ‘learners’ spit roast out there.. Ross

Note: We used a 2.3 kg Lamb leg, and it took 2.5 hours to cook….

Our rating is 8 out of 10 flames………

https://www.gasmate.com.au/bbq-alfresco/portable-bbqs/small-charcoal-spit-roaster

A few Pictures using the GasMate spit Roast Grill! This was Lamb Leg with Rosemary, Garlic, butter and ‘Maple from Canada‘ Maple Syrup…Awesome!

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