El Fuego Kingston 4+1-Brenner

Four burners under the hood, one beside it

The El Fuego Kingston is a mobile gas grill with four burners in the cooking chamber and a fifth on the right side table. El Fuego has designed this one as an infrared burner, not as an ordinary hob. There is also a large viewing window in the lid. In the Amazon catalogue the device is listed as model AY 505 in the colour silver/anthracite.

On price, according to our price box the Kingston is at approx. €457 (Amazon page on 20.10.2026: €456.74), putting it in our gas grills category in the same price range as the Flammenwerk Profi and the Weber Spirit II E-310. There it meets devices with a similar number of burners and branded grills with less equipment but denser documentation. This trade-off runs through the whole text.

One note on the sources, because it shapes everything that follows: all product details here come from Amazon catalogue data, that is from the title, bullet points and product information the seller has stored there. A manufacturer site was not reachable.

What El Fuego states about the build

Under the hood there are two burner classes. Two main burners deliver 3.0 kW each, two so-called high-output burners 4.2 kW each. Together the four reach 14.4 kW in the cooking chamber. The side burner has 3.0 kW. All five burners are made of stainless steel according to the seller.

Control is via knobs with LED lighting, and there is also a thermometer. Where this thermometer sits and what range it shows is not clear from the bullet points. El Fuego describes the viewing window as large and advertises that you can watch the cooking process without losing heat.

The product photo adds a few things that are missing from the text. The four knobs for the cooking chamber are colour-coded, the two on the left blue, the two on the right red. Whether the colour marks the burner class cannot be said with certainty from the image alone. If it did, the two 4.2 kW burners would sit next to each other on one side, and you would have a hot half and a milder half without much thought. Above the grate the photo shows a second level, but that does not prove a warming rack.

The delivery includes a cover hood, a gas hose and a pressure regulator. The grill also has a bottle opener. It moves on four plastic wheels.

In detail: what the kilowatts tell you about the zones

A kW figure describes how much gas a burner converts at full setting. How hot the grate above it gets also depends on how much area this output is spread over, how tightly the lid closes and how the heat is guided upward by flame spreaders. The output per square metre of cooking area is therefore more telling than the bare kW figure. For the Kingston the second number, the area, is missing, and we do not calculate it from outer dimensions.

What can be said: at 4.2 kW a high-output burner delivers 40 percent more than a main burner at 3.0 kW. With four separately adjustable burners, though, what matters is less the peak output than the room for zones. For direct grilling you turn all four up. For indirect cooking, such as a whole chicken or a roast, one or two burners stay off, the food sits above them, and the others heat the closed chamber. With four burners you can place the cool zone in the middle or at the edge, with two burners only left or right works.

The infrared side burner works on a different principle. An ordinary gas burner mainly heats the air, which then flows over the food. An infrared burner brings a surface, usually ceramic or metal mesh, to a glow, and that gives off most of its heat as radiation. Radiation reaches the surface of the meat directly, without the detour via the air. That is why infrared zones are used for searing. At what temperature the Kingston burner glows and what material it is made of cannot be read from the catalogue data.

For your routine this means the following: the side burner sits outside the hood, so it is open. You sear a steak there and move it into the cooking chamber to finish, or you work the other way round and give an indirectly cooked piece a crust at the end. Whether 3.0 kW is enough for that depends on the design, which we do not know, and so we would see the infrared zone more as an extra than as a reason to buy on its own.

Does a viewing window in the lid really help?

Yes, if you often cook with the lid closed. Every opening lets hot air escape, and afterwards the cooking chamber needs a while to get back to temperature. Through a window you check without opening. For quickly grilling sausages it adds little.

The rest is less clear-cut. El Fuego’s promise “without heat loss” refers to not opening the lid. The pane itself is a different matter: glass conducts and radiates heat differently from a steel lid, and what type of glass is fitted remains open. We know of no measured values that quantify a difference from a lid without a window.

Two practical points apply to any grill window. Grease and smoke settle on the inside, so visibility depends on how regularly you clean the pane. And in the evening the window only helps you if there is enough light in the cooking chamber; the LED lighting applies to the control knobs according to the seller.

What the manufacturer does not state

These gaps are collected here so you can find them in one place: the site el-fuego.de returned no content during our research, we did not find an instruction manual for the AY 505, and the catalogue data lacks the cooking area and grate size, the material of grate, housing, lid and side shelves, the glass type of the window, the design and maximum temperature of the infrared burner, the maximum temperature in the cooking chamber, a heat-up time, the gas consumption in grams per hour, gas type and connection pressure, the output pressure of the regulator and the hose length, the ignition system, details on a warming rack and grease catcher, bottle space and maximum bottle size in the lower cabinet, a clear net weight, country of origin and importer, year of market launch, as well as warranty terms and spare parts supply.

That is a long list for a grill at around €457. Some points are minor. Others affect safe operation, and those are covered in the next section.

Gas bottle, connection and safety without a manual

Because no manufacturer manual is available, we cannot reproduce any safety rules from El Fuego here. What follows are general rules for gas grills, expressly not to be read as manufacturer information. In general:

The rating plate on the grill is decisive for the connection pressure. Garden grills for the German market mostly run at 50 mbar, but you should rely only on what is printed there. Check the supplied pressure regulator for its marking before connecting it for the first time, because its output pressure is also not documented for the Kingston. If the rating plate and regulator do not match, the grill is not connected.

After every bottle change and before first use, all connections need a leak check, most simply with leak-detection spray. If bubbles form, the valve stays closed. A gas grill is operated only outdoors and at a distance from combustible materials. The cover hood goes on the grill only once it has cooled down completely.

Which bottle size makes sense for you and how to handle fill level and storage is covered in detail in our guide to the gas bottle for the grill.

These three alternatives are worth a look

The prices are guide values from our price boxes and change. The rating is our editorial assessment based on the available data.

It is striking how close together the three cheaper devices are. The Flammenwerk is at approx. €449.99 in our price box, the Kingston at approx. €457 and the Weber Spirit II E-310 at approx. €459.99. With such small gaps, the price does not decide; what decides is what you want to do at the grill and how much verifiable manufacturer information is worth to you. That the Weber has the highest rating of the three despite having one burner fewer and no side burner is down to exactly that. The Broil King plays in a different league, at approx. €1,649 in our price box and here as the overall winner of our category.

Who it suits, and when another grill fits better

The Kingston suits you if you have a garden or patio with a firm, level floor and like working with two zones: under the hood something cooks indirectly, beside it you sear openly. Then you use both special features, the four separate burners and the infrared spot, and the viewing window pays off on longer cooking times. That hood, hose and pressure regulator are included takes away part of the incidental costs, but a filled gas bottle still has to be added.

Plan the space generously. The catalogue lists approx. 139 cm width, 57 cm depth and 119 cm height, converted from inches. Whether this was measured with the side shelves folded out and the lid closed is not stated; judging by the photo, we assume it includes the side shelves.

We would not choose the Kingston for a balcony. Suitability for that is documented nowhere, the width fits many balconies poorly, and open gas flames are restricted in many tenancy agreements and house rules. Check that first, before you even think about a particular model.

If you mainly want to keep side dishes warm in a pot or cook a sauce on the side burner, an ordinary hob as on the Flammenwerk is the better choice, and it costs less. If you value a data sheet, a manual and a traceable spare parts supply, you are better off in our assessment with the Weber Spirit II E-310, even though it has fewer burners. And if you want to use a rotisserie, you only find one in a different price class.

The Kingston is wrong for people who often push their grill over lawn or gravel. A heavy grill on small plastic wheels is, in our assessment, the wrong design for that. Unsure what size you need at all? The grill simulator helps you narrow down the number of people and the grill type.