Your Free Personal Coach to help you build the outdoor kitchen of your dreams. (non-profit)

BBQ Coach invented the #1 DIY Outdoor kitchen framing system in 1998. Willie was a professional builder in California and later invented cement board stucco for bbq islands. Now as a hobby in retirement he offers this non-profit online resource to help people build their own outdoor kitchens. Notice: No one should ever ask you for money from BBQ Coach. If they do it is a scam.

The BBQ Coach Framing System

This was my Outdoor Kitchen Framing System that I invented to help people build outdoor kitchen frames. My goal was to make a system that was easier than using track and studs to build BBQ Frames. My system became the #1 way to build an outdoor kitchen for diy home owners. I purchased my steel parts from a company named Connectubes.com located in Irvine, California

Now that I am out of business they sell my complete system. They are the actual importer from China of all the steel parts used in my kits. I have no affiliation with this company but if you want to use my system they have the parts.

Outdoor Kitchen Frame Kits

DIY Outdoor Kitchen frame kits are simply the best way to build a custom outdoor kitchen.

First the new steel square tube kits with steel couplers allow you to assemble a real steel frame without welding. This makes building a frame possible for the average homeowner that has no experience working with steel. These steel frames are much stronger than the ones built with track and studs. They are safer to work with and do not have all the sharp edges found on track and studs.

Second the frame kits are pre-cut and even have telescoping parts for no to little cutting. Kits are packaged and labeled for beginners.

Third you assemble your frame on the job site where you can create a perfect outdoor kitchen to match every inch and angle of your space.

The frame kits are shipped Fed Ex and Ups Nationwide in standard delivery truck. No big semi trucks are needed. Kits can be delivered very fast unlike pre fab islands taking weeks to ship on big trucks. Many people who do not want to build their own frame still buy these kits and have their contractor or handyman assemble them so that they can approve the frame before the rest of construction takes place.

Other Ways To Build Outdoor Kitchens - Concrete panels

Concrete Panel Outdoor Kitchen Review
You may have seen advertisements on you tube for concrete panel outdoor kitchens from companies like RTA Outdoor Living. They make a lot of fancy advertisement and videos of how much better it is to build an outdoor kitchen with their product. But beware. There are a lot of undesirable points. Remember the old adage, if it sounds to easy to be true it probably is. In my experience with building outdoor kitchens every one of my clients had a different custom design. Every space is a different size. Every landscape is different. Buying a premade bbq island never fits the space well.
It is why I designed outdoor kitchen frame kits that could be customized in size on the job site.
If my client needed a few more inches to fit a side burner we just add onto the frame. If there was a special angle we
could just use our custom angle kit. Building on the job site your frame is the only real professional way of building an outdoor kitchen. I have made the above video to explain why I would not use concrete panels for my outdoor kitchen.
If you really want concrete do it the old fashioned way and hire a mason to build it with concrete block.