A vertical grilling assembly for uniform grilling of food with reduced flareups includes a housing, which defines an interior space. A retaining unit, which is engaged to a food item is insertable through an opening, which is positioned in a front of the housing, so that the food item is positioned in the interior space substantially equally distant from opposed sides of the housing. A first door is hingedly engaged to the housing and is positioned to selectively close the opening. A pair of heaters is engaged singly to the opposed sides of the housing and positioned in the interior space. The heaters selectively heat the interior space to grill the food item. A controller is engaged to the housing and is operationally engaged to the pair of heaters. The controller is positioned to control heat output from the pair of heaters.

A firebox for a grill is provided. The firebox has a shell, an insulation layer, and a firebrick layer. The firebrick layer comprising a plurality of firebricks that form an inner peripheral surface of the firebox. The insulation layer formed between the firebrick layer and the shell or the insulation layer forming the outermost layer of the firebox. The shell preventing the collapse and/or unwanted airflow into the internal cavity of the firebox if a fracture is formed in the firebrick layer.

Disclosed is a portable brick pizza oven that may be prefabricated as such, or converted from a grill using a conversion kit. The portable brick pizza oven or converted grill utilizes a bottom plate as a mount for a height adjustment assembly that can be used to adjust the height of a rotatable turntable that is situated in a bowl. The turntable is connected to a driveshaft that extends down through the bowl, through a motor that rotates the driveshaft, and rests within the height adjustment assembly. The bowl is covered with a lid that has a number of bricks specifically placed such that the bricks are heated by a heating element situated within the bowl and facilitate the flow of convection currents throughout the portable brick pizza oven. The heating element heats the turntable and the bricks to a temperature that is suitable for baking pizzas in a similar fashion to that of a commercial pizza oven.

A wood burning grill includes a cabinet that defines a coal support platform for supporting burning wood during a grilling process. A grate is positioned above the coal support platform and a grate positioning assembly mechanically couples the grate to the cabinet. The grate positioning assembly includes two four-bar linkage systems positioned on opposite sides of the grate for suspending the grate in cantilevered manner from the cabinet. Each four-bar linkage system includes a drive arm that is mechanically coupled to the drive gear and a support arm that maintains the grate in a substantially horizontal orientation while moving between the raised position and the lowered position. A hand wheel is rotatably mounted to the cabinet and is coupled to the drive gear through a rotating shaft and a worm gear such that rotating the hand wheel moves the grate between the raised position and the lowered position.

It is contemplated that the present invention can provide a collapsible and portable outdoor oven having a front wall having at least one opening, a rear wall, a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, at least one horizontally extending exhaust slot, at least one upwardly and outwardly extending baffle, at least one internal cavity having a rear inner wall, a first inner side wall, a rear inner side wall, an upper inner surface, a lower inner surface and an upwardly and forwardly projecting baffle positioned rearwardly on the lower surface, at least one of the first side wall, the second side wall, rear wall, upper surface and the lower surface comprised of a plurality of refractory brick elements and at least one door element adapted to cover the at least one opening of the front wall.

It is contemplated that the present invention can provide a collapsible and portable outdoor oven having a front wall having at least one opening, a rear wall, a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, at least one horizontally extending exhaust slot, at least one upwardly and outwardly extending baffle, at least one internal cavity having a rear inner wall, a first inner side wall, a rear inner side wall, an upper inner surface, a lower inner surface and an upwardly and forwardly projecting baffle positioned rearwardly on the lower surface, at least one of the first side wall, the second side wall, rear wall, upper surface and the lower surface comprised of a plurality of refractory brick elements and at least one door element adapted to cover the at least one opening of the front wall.

A modular framework for a grill and oven includes surfaces for food preparation, storage bins accessible from above, and cabinet storage accessible laterally. Modular elements of the framework may incorporate receiving sites with locating and restraining features and other attachments complementary to fixtures found on commercially available barbeque grills, such as standardized mounting flanges and gas plumbing. An oven chamber beneath the food preparation surfaces or the grill receiving site may include a rotisserie assembly. Since 36 inches above the ground or a floor is a prevalent standard height for food preparation surfaces, a cooking chamber accessed laterally and situated below such a food preparation surface would require a user to bend, stoop, or kneel to access vessels or a rotisserie spit operating in the chamber. The invention includes a rotisserie frame with an extendable spit so that foods on the spit can be accessed with less bending or stooping.

A modular brick or block outdoor structure includes an outdoor structure that is constructed in modular sections. Each modular section is fabricated from a plurality of paving bricks or retaining wall blocks that match the brick or block used to construct the patio. The bricks or blocks are preferably assembled to each other with adhesive. Each modular section includes means for transporting thereof with some type of equipment, if necessary. It is preferable that each modular section include channels to receive lifting forks of an end loader or other suitable transport device, if necessary. However, other methods of transporting the modular section may also be used.

A pellet grill includes a ceramic oven body and a ceramic inner liner. The oven body includes a first through-hole in its side. A conduit is inserted through the first through-hole into the oven body. A firepot is removably coupled to the conduit toward an end of the conduit that is within the oven body. The inner liner conforms to a shape of, and fits to a portion of, an oven body inner wall. The inner liner covers the conduit and includes a second through-hole aligned with the firepot. A bulge in the inner liner conforms to a shape of the conduit within the ceramic oven body and may protect the conduit from cooking debris and from heat, rising from a flame in the firepot, that circulates within a portion of the oven body that is above the inner liner. The firepot receives fuel and air via the conduit.

It is contemplated that the present invention can provide a collapsible and portable outdoor oven having a front wall having at least one opening, a rear wall, a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, at least one horizontally extending exhaust slot, at least one upwardly and outwardly extending baffle, at least one internal cavity having a rear inner wall, a first inner side wall, a rear inner side wall, an upper inner surface, a lower inner surface and an upwardly and forwardly projecting baffle positioned rearwardly on the lower surface, at least one of the first side wall, the second side wall, rear wall, upper surface and the lower surface comprised of a plurality of refractory brick elements and at least one door element adapted to cover the at least one opening of the front wall.