Instructions / Assembly

26 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, Texas in 1952 by an inventor and
local 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 had been 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.