28 PK360 | OWNER’S GUIDE
BUILT TO COOK. BUILT TO LAST
THE SIXTY YEAR OLD START-UP
The first PK Grill & Smoker was created in Tyler, TX in 1952 by an inventor and lo-
cal businessman named Hilton Meigs. The simple venting system and aluminum
construction produced a grill that excelled at both hot and fast grilling and low and
slow barbecue cooking. Meigs sold the popular grill all over the mid-south. The
company was purchased from Meigs in 1958 and moved operations to Little Rock,
Arkansas where they exist today.
Portable Kitchens Inc. was a major producer of charcoal grills during the 1950s and
1960s until a fire, business issues and the unchecked proliferation of disco music
halted operations in the 1970s. No PK Grills were produced for nearly three decades
when a local attorney and PK enthusiast named Paul James found one at a yard
sale in the late 1990s.
As a testament to the durability of the PK Grill, James found the yard sale PK to
be fully functioning. After cooking a deliciously moist pork shoulder for his family
and a gathering of curious neighbors, he was compelled to commission a mold of
the old cast aluminum grill which he then used to begin producing the PK Grill &
Smoker again.
Almost forty five years to the day after the first Portable Kitchen grill popped out of
its mold in Tyler, Texas, Portable Kitchens was back in business with the PK Grill
& Smoker.
In 1952 the PK Grill was the best outdoor cooker money could buy and one could
argue that it has remained so over its history. In 2014, Portable Kitchen embarked
on a journey to again make the best outdoor cooker your money can buy.
Your new PK360 Grill & Smoker is the result of several years of design and devel-
opment and over sixty years of outdoor grilling excellence. It is the new generation
of PK Grill.
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