# StarBBQ Live Fire: Charcoal Flavor You Can Roll Into the Yard

By Sunstone Metal Products · 2026-08-29

> The StarBBQ 24" charcoal cart is heavy-duty live-fire cooking with a hood, chimney, and wheels — smoke and sear without committing a full island.

### Charcoal, without the island commitment

Not every yard is ready for ten feet of stainless. The [StarBBQ 24" charcoal smoker with hood and cart](https://austinoutdoorkitchens.com/products/starbbq-24-charcoal-smoker-cart) is the live-fire piece you roll to the patio, light, and actually use. Hood and chimney for real smoke control. Cart so it is not a permanent monument.

Live fire, evening light, a cart that can live by the fence until you want it center stage.

[STARBBQ-24CHBS-HDR-CRT](https://austinoutdoorkitchens.com/products/starbbq-24-charcoal-smoker-cart) — 24" charcoal, hood, cart.

### What you cook on it

Direct charcoal for steaks. Indirect with the hood down for chicken and pork. Wood chunks when you want a heavier smoke than a gas grill will ever give. It is the Saturday grill — and it does not steal the Ruby’s weeknight job.

Many Sunstone kitchens run StarBBQ next to a gas grill: fast fire and slow fire, same backyard.

### When you outgrow the cart

Keep the live-fire habit and move it into a built-in later — or step into a [True-Hybrid](https://austinoutdoorkitchens.com/products/sunstone-r-series-30-gas-burners-hybrid-single-zone-charcoal-wood-burning-w-infra-red-burner-grill-sunchz30) that puts charcoal beside gas in one hood. Until then, the cart is honest: wheels, chimney, charcoal, dinner.

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