In development — Finland first

Master the embers.

A live-fire Argentine parrilla, engineered for European homes. Built around a real brasero — not charcoal in a box.

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DOCTA is currently in development — no grill has shipped yet. Joining the list costs nothing and puts you first in line when reservations open.

Full Argentine-style grill with a stainless brasero, round-bar cooking grate, hanging hooks, hand-crank wheel, wooden rails and wheeled lower shelf

The DOCTA production unit, agreed with our manufacturing partner.

01 — Philosophy

This isn't charcoal in a box.

In Argentina, fire and food are prepared separately. Wood burns in a brasero — a firebox set apart from the cooking area — until it collapses into embers. Only then do the embers move beneath the grate, shovelled in by hand, spread thin or piled deep depending on what's cooking.

Nothing about this is automatic. You're not turning a dial — you're managing a bed of coals the way it's done in Córdoba: by eye, by hand, by how the meat responds. That's the difference between fire you burn and fire you use.

  1. 01 Wood
  2. 02 Fire
  3. 03 Embers
  4. 04 Parrilla

02 — The Brasero

Where the fire actually happens.

The brasero is a separate firebox for burning real hardwood down to embers — not a chamber for igniting charcoal in place. It's the part of a parrilla that most conventional grills skip entirely, and the part that makes everything else possible: consistent embers, ready on demand, kept apart from the food until you decide otherwise.

Dimensions and materials are confirmed with our manufacturing partner. What won't change is the principle — a real brasero, not a firebox that only pretends to be one.

Close-up of the brasero firebox and grate mechanism
Hand-crank wheel and cable mechanism for the height-adjustable grate

The DOCTA production unit, agreed with our manufacturing partner.

SEARSLOW HEAT

03 — Control the Heat

Raise it. Lower it. Own the temperature.

The cooking grate moves — up, away from the embers, for a slow and gentle heat; down, close to the coals, for a hard sear. Combined with grate height and ember position, you control the two things every good asador manages by hand: heat and flare.

No thermostat decides this for you. You do.

04 — Where We Are

Built in the open.

DOCTA is currently evaluating manufacturing partners and finalizing a prototype. We haven't shipped a grill yet, and this page won't pretend otherwise. Everything below is a target — not a finished spec.

  • Separate brasero for burning real hardwood to embersTarget
  • Height-adjustable Argentine-style grateTarget
  • Two independently adjustable cooking zonesTarget
  • Refractory firebrick-lined fireboxTarget
  • Stainless-steel food-contact componentsTarget
  • Heavy-duty wheels and weather-conscious constructionTarget
  • Replaceable mechanical parts, spares available in EuropeTarget

The features.

Labeled DOCTA grill feature diagram showing hanging hooks, charcoal basket, crank height adjustment, stainless-steel grates, foldable side table and casters

DOCTA feature diagram.

What's included

Grilling tool set.

Included grilling tool set in its open hard case, with wooden-handled utensils, skewers and a grilling glove

Comes with a complete grilling tool set.

05 — Argentina × North

From Córdoba to the North.

Marcos grew up in Córdoba, Argentina — La Docta, as locals call it — where cooking over wood fire isn't a weekend hobby, it's just how you cook. After moving to Finland, he spent more than three years working as a professional chef in Lapland — cooking through some of the harshest conditions in Europe. Along the way he found plenty of good grills, but nothing built around a real brasero, and nothing that treated fire as the point rather than a means to an end.

DOCTA started as an attempt to bring that tradition somewhere it didn't exist yet — built for gardens, terraces and cabins across the Nordics, not only for people who already know what a parrilla is.

“I didn't want to sell a grill. I wanted to bring the fire I grew up with.”

Marcos, founder
Portrait of Marcos, DOCTA founder

Marcos, founder. Córdoba, Argentina — now based in Finland.

06 — Founders Edition

Founders get there first.

Join the list and you get first access when reservations open, a say in the final specification before it's locked, and pricing below eventual retail.

Target Retail

~€2,199

Expected — subject to final manufacturing cost

Founders Pricing

~€1,899

Expected — for the first confirmed reservations only

  • —First access when reservations open
  • —Input on final specification
  • —Direct updates from the build

The price you see is the price you pay — VAT and delivery included.

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