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Discover Charlie. It's a BBQ, a smoker, a charcoal oven, and a pizza oven.

It's luxury outdoor cooking, made easy.  It’s an infinitely better way to cook outdoors, to cook with charcoal, to cook all year-round - and to be a design statement in your garden. The Charlie Oven makes it effortless to create truly incredible flavours, whatever the food, whatever the occasion, whatever the season.

Charlie is a game-changing innovation in outdoor cooking. Inspired by the charcoal ovens used by professional chefs. It cooks incredible-tasting food in an incredibly fuel-efficient way. Perfect to use all year round, with ease. From cooking low’n’slow at 100°c, to pizzas at 400°C. Or anything in between.

Charlie is made in Britain to cope with the British weather. With proper, professional-grade materials. Built to last and work in snow, rain, or shine. Built to be a pleasure to use and admire - in any of its ten delicious colours - and to bring the best out of you as cooks, hosts, parents, and friends.

About Us

We're on a mission to transform the way people cook outdoors.

The Cheeky Charlie Oven Company is a British company that makes outdoor charcoal ovens and complementary kitchen furniture pieces. With proper, professional-grade materials, every piece is built to last and work in snow, rain, or shine.

Our products are handmade in Britain. The fine welding makes it airtight and smooth - all the hardware is milled from solid stainless steel. The UV resistant, powder coat paintwork, done by hand, adds the final touch to the perfect finish.

Tara and Neil are the minds behind Charlie. We love our food, our garden and entertaining at home with family and friends. We always dreamt of the perfect outdoor lifestyle, but the reality often involved hovering over a smoky BBQ, wrestling with unpredictable weather, and cooking disappointments.

Enter Charlie: designed to make outdoor cooking fuel-efficient and effortless for everyone, every day. And gorgeous enough to take centre stage, not be hidden behind a bush, like our old eyesore of a BBQ.

Our Charlie Oven rarely gets a day off.  From pizzas, sourdough bread, roast chicken, and salmon … to vegetables that the kids will actually eat. We want everyone to enjoy cooking in a Charlie Oven at home. For us, it's not about elaborate cooking techniques; it's a simple piece of kit to use, it's hassle-free, and it can cook lots of food at the same time. 

What inspired the design look?

About four years ago, we redesigned our garden. We created a lovely dining area, a seating area with a fire pit and lots of attractive planting. The big dilemma we had was where to put our BBQ? It didn't match our beautiful garden, so we hid it behind a bush. We wanted Charlie to be a thing of beauty in the garden, a design feature people feel proud to display. And with the option of a beautiful colour palette to match their design.

Why call it Charlie?

We get asked this a lot. Where did the name come from? We wanted a name with personality that could be a name for a girl or boy. Charlie just felt right. It links to charcoal and charring ... and Tara's sister is called Charlotte!

We called the company Cheeky Charlie Oven Company Ltd. We have some cheeky plans for the future, so watch this space!

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