A portable barbecue device with a trough-like fuel tray, which has a bottom surface and a circumferential shell surface, wherein an upper side of the fuel tray opposite the bottom surface, in particular in a parallel arrangement, and adjoining the shell surface is open in a first operating position of the barbecue device and/or is covered by a cooking grate abutting on the shell surface or spaced apart therefrom, and wherein, in a second operating position of the barbecue device, the upper side is covered and at least partially closed by a cover surface which is fixable to the trough-like fuel tray, - wherein a first closure plate is situated on a first side of the shell surface, which first closure plate forms a support leg standing on a ground surface when the fuel tray is standing upright with the bottom surface and cover surface standing approximately perpendicular to a ground surface and the barbecue device in this context being in the second operating position with the cover surface fixed to the shell surface, and which first closure plate forms one of two bearing feet (34, 35) when the fuel tray is lying flat, - wherein a second closure plate is fixable to a second side of the circumferential shell surface situated opposite the first side with the first closure plate arranged thereon, which second closure plate forms the second bearing foot when the fuel tray is lying flat with the bottom surface standing approximately parallel to the ground surface and the barbecue device in this context being in the first operating position with the cover surface removed and/or replaced by the cooking grate, wherein the two oppositely situated bearing feet (34, 35) each stand on the ground surface with bordering edges (38, 39), - wherein the bottom surface and/or the cover surface, which is detachable from the fuel tray and fixable thereto, and/or sections of the shell surface of the fuel tray have openings (18, 19, 19`, 20, 20`) for combustion air supply and/or for heat dissipation when ignited fuel is present in the fuel tray, - and wherein the trough-like fuel tray has at least one partition wall (4, 4`) which is approximately perpendicular to the bottom surface, with the longitudinal extension direction of the partition wall (4, 4`) extending approximately perpendicular to the first side of the shell surface with the first closure plate situated thereon and also approximately perpendicular to the opposite second side of the shell surface with the second thereto fixable closure plate. - wherein a first closure plate is situated on a first side of the shell surface, which first closure plate forms a support leg standing on a ground surface when the fuel tray is standing upright with the bottom surface and cover surface standing approximately perpendicular to a ground surface and the barbecue device in this context being in the second operating position with the cover surface fixed to the shell surface, and which first closure plate forms one of two bearing feet (34, 35) when the fuel tray is lying flat, - wherein a second closure plate is fixable to a second side of the circumferential shell surface situated opposite the first side with the first closure plate arranged thereon, which second closure plate forms the second bearing foot when the fuel tray is lying flat with the bottom surface standing approximately parallel to the ground surface and the barbecue device in this context being in the first operating position with the cover surface removed and/or replaced by the cooking grate, wherein the two oppositely situated bearing feet (34, 35) each stand on the ground surface with bordering edges (38, 39), - wherein the bottom surface and/or the cover surface, which is detachable from the fuel tray and fixable thereto, and/or sections of the shell surface of the fuel tray have openings (18, 19, 19`, 20, 20`) for combustion air supply and/or for heat dissipation when ignited fuel is present in the fuel tray, - and wherein the trough-like fuel tray has at least one partition wall (4, 4`) which is approximately perpendicular to the bottom surface, with the longitudinal extension direction of the partition wall (4, 4`) extending approximately perpendicular to the first side of the shell surface with the first closure plate situated thereon and also approximately perpendicular to the opposite second side of the shell surface with the second thereto fixable closure plate.