Campingaz - Party Grill 600 and 400 | GADGETHEAD New Products Reviewed & Rated

The Party Grill range is a compact, portable camping grill that offers four different modes for your al fresco cooking: stove top, grill, griddle or plancha. All the elements pack away inside the grill, making it easy to transport and store away.

Starting with the Party Grill 400, it runs on Campingaz R904, R907 or a standard butane or propane cylinder. The lid is easily removed by undoing three clips around the edge, and there are two handles attached that let it double as a wok (ideal for us Asian food lovers). The next layer is a reversible non-stick griddle, which we used for eggs and bacon in the morning. Underneath that is the grill, perfect for burgers and sausages in the evening, and underneath that is the burner shield that helps to distribute the heat more evenly. Remove that and you will find a frame to support your pots and pans for stove-top cooking.

The bottom half of the grill is a water compartment - you fill it with water before you start cooking so that any grease or yuk that drips through can be tipped away at the end of use. This makes it really easy to keep clean; the grill just needs a quick wipe down after you tip the water out and it looks as good as new.

One thing I love about the Party Grill is the piezo ignition, which means you don’t need matches or a lighter to get it started. Every year, no matter how many lighters or matches we take with us, our camping trips always seem to end with all 10-15 of us sharing one lighter - a nightmare!

The 600 has all the same features as the 400 (minus the wok lid) but on a much larger scale. The legs are twice the length, which brings the grill to a comfortable standing height. There is also a blue plastic tray that hooks between the legs, making it more sturdy and providing a small table.

Both grills have temperature control to give you more flexibility whilst cooking, and they also both come with a handy carrier bag. All the cooking components look and feel like good quality - the only thing that lets the Party Grills down are their plastic ignition cases, which looks and feels cheap, and the casing kept opening up slightly. This was especially true on the 400, and the clips that keep the whole thing together kept coming apart as well. This was a worrying flaw that made me distrust how secure the lid was whilst transporting it.

The biggest difference between the two grills is the size and power. The 600 is a lump to carry about, 10.72 kg, but it provides loads of cooking space (52 x 99 cm on the stand) and serious fire power of 4000w. This firepower means less time waiting for the kettle to boil - a 2.5lt full kettle only took eight minutes – but this increased heat also means you will get less burn time from you fuel sources: 9hrs 30mins on R907 and 6 hrs 15mins on R904, compared to the 400’s 12 hrs and 30 min on R904 and 19 hrs and 30 min on R907.

The 400 is much lighter at 4.92 kg, just under half the weight of the 600. The legs will bring the grill to stand at 42cm, which is a comfortable height to work at whilst sat on a camping chair, and the grill is 36cm - not a huge loss of space for cooking. The 600 would be best suited for the back garden, or maybe if we were having a BBQ at the beach, whilst the 400 is much better if you need to carry it about or are camping for long periods of time.

Overall, both grills were a pleasure to cook on, fast to heat up and a breeze to clean, bringing serious glamour to our campsite. RRP £219.99 – Party Grill 600 RRP £109.99 – Party Grill 400

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