Santa Maria Grills

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Sunterra Outdoor and the BBQ Pit Boys offers one of the best Santa Maria-style barbecue grills, a culinary tradition celebrated by backyard professional pit masters everywhere.

Santa Maria-style barbecue is a regional culinary tradition rooted in the Santa Maria Valley in Santa Barbara County on the Central Coast of California. This method of barbecuing dates back to the mid-19th century and is today regarded as a “mainstay of California’s culinary heritage.” Santa Maria-style barbecue centers around a beef tri-tip, seasoned with black pepper, salt, and garlic salt before grilling over coals of native coast live oak, often referred to as 'red oak' wood, preferred for authentic Santa Maria style BBQ, but any cooking woods or charcoals will work with excellent results.

All of our Santa Maria BBQ grills are heavy duty in construction. By combining 3/16" gauge steel & fire brick for the side walls, including (3/16") heavy gauge material for the grill base floor, our design offers a new standard for construction and heat dispensation that will provide a long-lasting product and hassle-free barbecuing. Our larger sizes reflect a (1/4") heavy gauge material for the grill base floor. All Sunterra Outdoor Santa Maria grills feature ceramic fire bricks that create heat retention and distribution on the side walls, and your choice of fuel grate and ash pan or fire brick floor.

The grills are available in many sizes in both cart and non cart versions. All styles are offered in either a single or dual grates and hand crank configurations that lifts or lowers the grill grates over the coals to the desired distance from the heat producing phenomenal results.

Santa Maria grills with Fire Brick floor roll down to about 5" above firebrick (3" to 4" above coals)
Santa Maria grills with Fuel Grate and Ash Pan design roll down to about 3" above fuel grate.

Sunterra Outdoor and the BBQ Pit Boys Santa Maria Grill is for the BBQ Grill master that loves to cook and entertain on the Creme de la Creme in the Argentine style.