“Savor the classic taste of smoky BBQ with this charcoal grill”
“Featuring 354 square inches of grilling space… Designed for small households, it’s great for backyard meals and picnics”
“Adjustable air dampers let you fine-tune airflow to achieve the perfect cooking temperature”
“Featuring a porcelain-enameled lid and bowl, this grill delivers exceptional heat retention, resists rust, and ensures durability”
“The removable ash catcher ensures your grill remains clean and tidy by collecting all residue”
Three hundred and fifty-four square inches
One of only two real figures on this shelf.
Five Weber listings here say “up to 13 burgers made with a Weber burger press” and leave it at that. Two makers publish square inches:
Megamaster — 354 sq in — $96.99 — $0.27 a square inchWeber Jumbo Joe — 363 sq in — $98.00 — $0.27 a square inch
At the October 31, 2026 reading the two cost the same per square inch, and the Weber is nine square inches larger for one dollar more.
What one more dollar buys on the Weber
Specific things, and one of them is the difference between a pleasant cook and an annoying one.
An angled lid hook. Weber names the problem on its own listings: no more setting the grill lid on the ground while you cook. A kettle lid comes off hot, and if it has nowhere to go it sits in the grass, picks up grit, and goes back over your food.
Also a heat shield on the lid handle, all-weather wheels and an aluminum ash catcher.
Megamaster has a storage rack and a removable ash catcher, and nothing stated for the lid. So does the $53 GRILIFE. Those are the only two kettles on this shelf without an answer to it.
Porcelain enamel at eighty dollars
The right material, and worth understanding why.
The enemy of a charcoal grill is not weather, it is the inside of its own bowl: wet ash is alkaline and eats bare steel, which is how a cheap kettle ends up with a hole in its base after two seasons.
Porcelain enamel is glass fused to the steel at high temperature. Megamaster claims it for both lid and bowl, and claims it “resists rust”. Six of the eight kettles here state it; the $53 GRILIFE does not.
The airflow, which is not described
Adjustable air dampers let you fine-tune airflow. No count, no description.
That is the throttle on a charcoal grill — the bottom vent sets how hard the coals burn, the lid vent sets how the heat leaves — and only one kettle on this shelf publishes the detail: the Weber Master-Touch, with 3 air vents regulated by 3 arched, swiveling damper blades.
The Napoleon answers it differently, with a Smoke Stack Chimney that shields the airflow from wind and rain.
What is not published
No thermometer, which the $149 Weber also lacks and the $219 Weber adds.
No hinged grate, so charcoal cannot be added without lifting the grate and the food with it. Three kettles here have one.
Warranty in the table only. The Amazon.com table lists: 1 Year.
Availability
On sale at about $97 on Amazon.com when we read the listing on October 31, 2026.
Price and availability were read on Amazon.com on October 31, 2026; both move.
Prices quoted in this text are dated readings and can differ from the live price in the buy box.
What we rate, and what we do not
Strengths
Twenty-three cents per published square inch, the cheapest cooking area on this shelf
A porcelain-enamelled lid and bowl at eighty dollars, which is what keeps a charcoal grill from rusting through
Publishes an actual figure — 354 square inches — where five Weber listings publish only a burger count
Compromises
No way to park a hot lid, where the $98 Weber Jumbo Joe has an angled hook
No hinged grate, so adding charcoal means lifting the grate with the food on it
No thermometer, no vent count and no warranty in the bullets
Specifications
Diameter
22 in
Cooking area
354 sq in — one of only two published on this shelf
Cost per square inch
$0.27, level with the Weber Jumbo Joe at our reading
Lid and bowl
Porcelain-enamelled, stated to retain heat and resist rust
Airflow
Adjustable air dampers
Ash
A removable ash catcher
Storage
A storage rack
Stated for
Small households, backyard meals and picnics
Weight
25.8 lb (11.7 kg)
Overall dimensions
25.2 × 22.8 × 36.6 in (640 × 580 × 930 mm)
Height
36.6 in (930 mm), about 36.6 in
Lid parking
None stated — no hook and no holder
Hinged grate
No
Thermometer
None
Number of vents
Not published by the maker
Warranty
1 Year, in the Amazon.com table; not in the bullets
Amazon reference
B0CXCPXKV8
EAN
0044376298807
The questions that come in
Is it better value than the $98 Weber Jumbo Joe?
On area per dollar yes, on usability no, and the figures are close enough to be worth laying out. Megamaster publishes 354 sq in at $96.99 — twenty-seven cents a square inch. The Weber Jumbo Joe Premium publishes 363 sq in at $98 — twenty-seven cents. So the Weber is nine square inches larger and one dollar more. What that dollar adds is specific: an angled lid hook so the hot lid never touches the ground, a heat shield on the lid handle, all-weather wheels and an aluminum ash catcher. Both have porcelain-enamelled lids and bowls and adjustable dampers; neither has a thermometer or a hinged grate. The lid hook is the one you would miss at every cook.
How many air vents does it have?
The listing does not say, and on a charcoal grill that is the control that matters. Megamaster says "adjustable air dampers let you fine-tune airflow" without a count or a description. Only the Weber Master-Touch on this shelf publishes the detail: "3 air vents which are regulated by 3 arched, swiveling damper blades". The Napoleon answers the question differently with a Smoke Stack Chimney that "maintains airflow while shielding from wind and rain". Airflow is the throttle on a charcoal kettle — the bottom vent sets how hard the coals burn, the top vent sets how the heat leaves — so how many vents there are and how finely they move is not a detail. Assume a standard single bottom damper and a lid damper.
Will the enamel last?
Porcelain enamel is the right material and the listing claims the right things; what it does not give you is a warranty. Megamaster states a "porcelain-enameled lid and bowl" that "delivers exceptional heat retention, resists rust, and ensures durability". That is the correct construction for a charcoal grill, where the enemy is not weather but the inside of the bowl: wet ash is alkaline and eats bare steel, which is how a cheap kettle develops a hole in its base. Six of the eight kettles here state porcelain enamel. What separates them is backing: the $149 Weber Original Kettle states ten years limited in its bullets. Megamaster’s table lists 1 year, and nor do the $219, $289, $309 and $389 kettles here.
Our score
8.1/ 10
Eighty dollars for a 22-inch porcelain-enamelled kettle with 354 published square inches — level with the Jumbo Joe at twenty-seven cents a square inch. It has no way to park the lid, which the $98 Weber beside it does.
This one against the other cookware and knives
Close prices, same category: comparable cookware and knives. We keep only the specifications all of them publish, because a column with gaps compares nothing.
Model
Price
Lid and bowl
Lid parking
Thermometer
Warranty
Megamaster 810-23002
$97
Porcelain-enamelled, stated to retain heat and resist rust
None stated — no hook and no holder
None
1 Year, in the Amazon.com table; not in the bullets
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for cookware and kitchen knives and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
22 in charcoal kettle with hinged cast iron grids adjustable to three heights, a Vortex heat management system, a Smoke Stack Chimney, a stainless steel extension ring with rotisserie spit ports and temperature probe doors, an offset hinged lid and chrome-plated cooking grids
The only kettle here with grids at three heights, probe doors and rotisserie ports, at 28 kg (61.7 lb).
Best for: A charcoal cook who smokes with a probe, roasts on a spit, and wants to move the grid rather than the coals
22 in charcoal kettle in Deep Ocean Blue with a Tuck-Away lid holder, hinged GBS-compatible grate, built-in lid thermometer, tool hooks, and taller legs with char-basket fuel holders stated in the description
The Master-Touch in Deep Ocean Blue, whose listing also names taller legs and char-basket fuel holders.
Best for: Someone who wants the Master-Touch and does not want a black grill
22 in compact charcoal grill with 363 sq in of cooking surface, a porcelain-enamelled lid and bowl, plated steel grate, aluminum dampers and ash catcher, an angled lid hook and a heat-shielded lid handle
Three hundred and sixty-three square inches for ninety-eight dollars, with an angled lid hook and a heat-shielded handle.
Best for: The best capacity per dollar on this shelf, for anyone who cooks over one load of charcoal
