Complete outdoor cooking solution
Life is a Journey. Enjoy your adventure.
The journey to the complete outdoor cooking solution – The PotjieKing™ stainless steel braai – started in 2008.
The ever-practical Ben, watched as a man struggled for many, many hours over a potjie pot on an open fire.
The wind was up and the fire was not playing ball (we were in Cape Town after all…). Much (much) later when the potjie was finally done an idea had already taken root.
Ben Snow, a qualified artistic blacksmith with 27 years of metalworking experience, had already started to “problem-solve” with the concept of a complete outdoor cooking solution.
4 months later Ben emerged from the workshop with something resembling a lunar lander spacecraft.
After a few test runs and modifications, the PotjieKing™ complete outdoor cooking solution was born.
PotjieKing™ has developed over the years from a potjie stove to a complete outdoor cooking solution.
We have never stopped driving our vision forward. A vision of a portable stainless steel braai that can cook everything, burning any solid fuel available.
Complete outdoor cooking Innovation
We are continuously developing ways to deliver added value to your PotjieKing™ experience.
PotjieKing™ will keep striding forward to keep you on your journey. Guaranteeing you the freedom to eat what you want, when you want it, where you want it.
Cooking up fillet steaks with your caravan behind you or a 360-degree panoramic view of wildest Africa surrounding you, or at home with a potjie pot singing away on a cold and rainy winters day.
To us life is a journey of untraveled roads, unexplored mountains and the untamed wilderness.
The thing we love almost as much as an adventure… is good food!
With PotjieKing™ consequently, we have combined our 2 great loves for the purpose of giving you the freedom to explore your world.
We invite you to join our Tribe, claim your PotjieKing™ stainless steel braai, and let us feed YOUR Adventure.
Read some of our past customers’ testimonials here.
PotjieKing™ Founders
PotjieKing™ is a family. We, Ben and Lisa, created PotjieKing™ in 2008. We take care of the grown up stuff while our little girls (Isabella & Cassidy) keep us inspired, playful and creative.
Now, more than ever, we believe in enjoying the simple things in life with sturdy well-loved bits of kit! Times are challenging and we want you to know that we have designed and built each PotjieKing to be your reliable heating and cooking source no matter what is happening at Eskom! eish!
Ben Snow
Ben is a qualified Artistic blacksmith (Hereford College of Blacksmithing, UK) with 27 years of metalworking and design experience.
Ben is the creator of the PotjieKing™. Heading up research, design and manufacture.
Lisa Snow
Lisa is qualified in Art and Equine Science with 20 years business experience.
Lisa is behind the scenes and screens. Heading up finance, administration & web management.