The Family BBQ Tool Set launched September 2023 at £70. Three products: the King Fork, the Trio Bison Skewer, and the BBQ Blade. The brief we set ourselves was specific: what does a cook actually need to run a complete family BBQ session from start to finish? Not what looks good in a box. Not what fills a price point. What do you reach for, in order, when you’re cooking for four or six people over fire?
The answer turned out to be three distinct tools that solve three distinct problems — and none of them overlap.
What Each Tool Does in a Session
The King Fork handles the large cuts. At 3kg load capacity and with a handle length designed for fire distance, it’s the tool you use to move a whole chicken, lift a rack of ribs, or hold a joint steady while you carve. There is no substitute for it when the food is big and the fire is hot. If you’re cooking for a family, you’ll have at least one large cut on the grill. The King Fork earns its place on that basis alone.
The Trio Bison Skewer covers kebabs and vegetables. Three flat-blade skewers running simultaneously gives you enough coverage for a full round of chicken skewers or mixed veg without cooking in shifts. The flat blade means the food stays where you put it — no spinning, no uneven cooking.
The BBQ Blade handles grate maintenance and serving. The grate scraper clears the cooking surface before and during the session; the spatula moves smaller items without them falling through; the bottle opener is there because someone always needs it. The Blade is the tool you don’t think about until you don’t have one, at which point it’s the only thing you want.
Testing the Combination
We tested this exact combination at a Bison Hill Grill event before finalising the set. Running a live cook with these three tools and only these three tools confirmed that nothing was missing. You can run a complete session — from cold grill to plated food — without reaching for anything else. That test mattered. A bundle assembled on paper is a guess. A bundle tested in a real cook is a verified toolkit.
Why Bundles Make Gifting Easier
There’s a secondary benefit to a well-assembled set that’s easy to underestimate: it removes the decision problem from the person buying a gift. When someone is choosing between a King Fork and a Bison Skewer and a BBQ Blade, they face three separate choices. When we assemble those into a Family BBQ Tool Set, we’ve already made those choices and explained why. The buyer gets confidence; the recipient gets a complete kit.
The set doesn’t exist to make the range look fuller. It exists because the combination is genuinely more useful than the sum of its parts purchased separately and without context.
