Japans Unique Tabletop Grills.

[y_p_w]

No. Charcoal makes a lot of CO when it burns. The only way to possibly use one of these indoors is under a serious commercial grade exhaust hood.

I’ve seen video of a restaurant in South Korea where it looked like they were using Weber Smokey Joe grills indoors. Also traditional tabletop grills that were clearly using charcoal.

 

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I’ve seen video of a restaurant in South Korea where it looked like they were using Weber Smokey Joe grills indoors. Also traditional tabletop grills that were clearly using charcoal.

I went to a place years ago in Wisonsin that had these giant wood fired open flame grills underneath a huge commercial vented hood. You went and picked a slab of meat from a counter and cooked it for yourself. I thought it was sort of foolish to be in a Restaurant and cooking my own meal, but the other people I was with thought it was great.

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[y_p_w]

There is some seriously nice camping gear on that site. Thanks for that link.
I've seen similar elsewhere, but not identical to these.

There is one enormous design difference between these camping grills and the tabletop grills this place was selling.

The insulation.

These table tops use compressed diatomaceous earth blocks that is apparently is so good, you can touch the outside after hours of cooking. The byproduct Im gleaning from that is that containment also focuses the heat reflectively increasing performance and focusing IR part of the 1000-1800 degree charcoal .
(after owning a pool with DE filter for 15 years - I had never heard of this use of the material.)

You can see this in the upper stove on the circular stand.

I’ve got some Snow Peak equipment. Have the original Giga Power stove with piezo igniter, plus windscreen. But it looks like they discounted the titanium version, which reduced the weight maybe an ounce. Also still have a couple of their Lindal-valve isobutane/propane canisters. Really old but I'm guessing they still work. Those things are interesting. The canister is relatively thin, so the gas can't be more than maybe 20% propane. The propane helps boost lower-temp pressure and it all comes out relatively proportionally down to a certain ambient temp. When it starts getting closer to the minimum operating temp, the propane will preferentially vaporize. But even if it's 100% butane in there, it should work if it's warm enough. I think I could operate the stove safely (using an adapter) on 100% propane, but the portable canisters are easier to carry.