BBQs - Gas or charcoal?

Light wood Charcoal taste better, IMO.

If it is gas, what difference it made between grill at your oven and BBQ?

Also I find disposal of gas cylinder is a bit of trouble.

I prefer gas, providing you have a hood and have it setup correctly with lava rocks, flavouriser bars or ceramic bricks, you're going to get just as much flavour into your meat as you would with a charcoal BBQ :beer:

There's limited mess and you can get everything up to a couple of hundred degrees in a few minutes

It's also a lot cheaper to run in the long run.

If I want something heavily smoked I just use some wood chips placed in the bottom, often soaked in Rum or Bourbon

I still have my old Weber kettle which occasionally gets used if I'm cooking for really large numbers, but overall gas is easier, cheaper, cleaner, and much more controllable than charcoal. If done properly it gives you much more control of the flavour profile than what is possible with charcoal :j

The bit I most miss about using charcoal is my patented lighting method, plastic bottle of petrol + model rocket igniter which is sadly now only used for lighting bonfires, the upside is that your average bonfire will tolerate much larger amounts of petrol compared to your average BBQ

Boo to gas; half the fun of barbequeing is in the setup, and the skill it takes to get cooking over charcoal just right... Besides, if I had a gas barbeque up to temperature in a couple of minutes, there's a possibility that I might still be sober when I start to cook, which is entirely missing the point

I don't have either, but a charcoal is more fun setting it up, keeping it going etc

SAFETY NOTICE

There has been a number of deaths with regard to camping & BBQ's
Never ever take one into a confined space ie tent, caravan, they give off as much CO as a faulty gas appliance & they can, have & will kill you