Weber BBQs

The history of Weber is pretty fascinating and it started in the back garden of a welder who was also a BBQ enthusiast. In 1952 Weber Brothers Metal Works was a Chicago-based manufacturer of marine buoys and working for them as a welder was George Stephen Snr. George Stephen Snr was completely fed up of the limitations of outdoor grilling in his garden. His open brickwork BBQ would often extinguish or affect the temperature of the BBQ with a rain shower and the slightest Chicago breeze would blow hot ashes everywhere.

George Stephens Snr looked for a way to prevent all of his BBQ problems by creating a lid for the barbecue, without smothering the heat. A light bulb moment sparked and he came up with the World's first Kettle Barbecue - made from two halves of a marine buoy with holes drilled in the bottom for air circulation. His idea was met with huge enthusiasm and soon he was selling his product, The Weber Original Kettle to family, friends and neighbours. He did not envisage quite the success that followed - becoming the synonym for BBQ across the World.