About a decade ago, an Arkansas native bought up the IP and started making them again, launching the first new-retro grill in 2016.
The company, then called Portable Kitchen (hence, PK), went virtually defunct in the ’70s thanks to the surge of propane gas grills at the time. Army, who apparently ordered more than 20,000 back in the ’50s. The original grill gained popularity among home and professional smokers, even attracting attention from the U.S. The idea was, and remains, simple - the grill capsule’s shape, use of cast aluminum and four-point vent system makes for a tougher-than-shit charcoal grill that’s easy to use and almost impossible to damage or corrode. The design of PK’s grills is basically unchanged since the originals were made in 1952 by one Hilton Meigs.
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