Fire at the center of the table: The story of the El Fuego 100 brazier
A fire that brings people together. Meat that grills slowly. Vegetables that caramelize. A pot that simmers while guests chat around the embers.
In Argentina, Uruguay, and much of South America, the brazier isn't just a cooking appliance. It's the heart of the meal — the place where people gather even before sitting down to eat. This is the idea we wanted at the core of the El Fuego 100.
A cooking system, not just a brazier
Unlike a traditional brazier fixed in a single configuration, the El Fuego evolves with your desires. You're not just buying a brazier: you're choosing a base that can transform, year after year, according to your meals and wishes.
Around the central Ø100 cm firebox, you compose your cooking surface with a quarter-circle grill, a plancha, a support for individual mini-pans, a pot support for long cooking, or a cage for suspended string cooking. Today a grill. Tomorrow a plancha. One firebox, an infinite number of ways to cook.
From raw sheet metal to brazier: The making of El Fuego
Before arriving at your home, each El Fuego goes through several manufacturing steps carried out in our workshop in France: shell cutting, rolling, ventilation grille bending, structure welding. Here's the entire manufacturing process filmed from start to finish.
The firebox that breathes
Under the wood, a 5 mm DKP steel ventilation grille, folded and perforated, raises the fuel and separates it from the bottom of the brazier. Air circulates from the rolled contour of the sheet metal to the heart of the firebox, feeding combustion from below rather than letting it suffocate in contact with the metal.
Better combustion isn't always visible. It's felt: less smoke, less wood consumed, more embers for cooking.
Assembled and ready to use, or built with your own hands
The El Fuego 100 can be chosen according to your desires: ready to light upon delivery, or as a true manufacturing project if you are equipped for welding.
Ready to use
Delivered fully assembled, with the internal structure welded in the workshop. You choose your finish — raw Corten, which develops its natural patina or is maintained with linseed oil, or Black, a high-temperature powder-coated acid-etched steel with a stable color over time.
A true manufacturing project
For equipped welders: the shell is already rolled, the most technical step. It's up to you to weld the interior, then assemble the feet, wheels, and handles. Same design, same dimensions as the assembled version.
Raw Corten — patina rather than paint
Delivered raw, the Corten steel shell first appears dark grey, almost black. It's only with time, in contact with air and humidity, that it develops its characteristic protective patina — from orange-brown to deeper shades.
Two ways to experience this evolution: let the Corten patina naturally at its own pace, or regularly oil the shell with linseed oil to nourish the surface and accompany the patina. Your brazier tells its story through each cooking session, and no two El Fuegos patina exactly the same way.
More than a brazier
The El Fuego wasn't designed just to cook food. It was designed to bring people together. Because the best meals aren't always the ones you eat the fastest. They're the ones you take the time to linger around.
Made in France
Designed and manufactured in our workshop, with a fully welded rather than bolted structure.
Stable and mobile
Wide base and concentrated weight at ground level, four swiveling braked casters for easy movement.
Designed to last
Stainless steel handles, stainless steel shelf, reinforced structure — designed for years of evenings around the fire.
Today a grill. Tomorrow a plancha.
The El Fuego 100 evolves with you, year after year. Discover the version that suits you, assembled and ready to use, or built with your own hands.
