Abstract: A portable outdoor solid fueled cooking assembly including a metal shell with a pair of side walls and top and bottom opposing walls defining an interior combustion chamber. The cooking assembly also includes an air inlet protruding from a bottom portion of one of the side walls and a flue gas outlet detachably secured to the top wall. The flue gas outlet has a sliding damper mechanism attached thereto. The cooking assembly further includes an adjustable air register plate affixed to the air inlet and a removable, vertically adjustable ash and fuel pan entirely contained within the interior combustion chamber. A metal grill is removably supported inside the chamber. The grill has a grease drippings pan detachably secured to a portion thereof.