It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
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It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
Put your picture of your homemade BBQ.
Here's mine.
Metal table, six or eight bricks, some mesh from the oven (don't tell mrs. N.!), plus a nifty iron grate.
Fill with coals etc and a few Morrisons burgers and lamb skewers.\
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24015487@N ... 399186492/
(sorry, couldn't make it appear like a photo on this site)
Here's mine.
Metal table, six or eight bricks, some mesh from the oven (don't tell mrs. N.!), plus a nifty iron grate.
Fill with coals etc and a few Morrisons burgers and lamb skewers.\
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24015487@N ... 399186492/
(sorry, couldn't make it appear like a photo on this site)
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
You mean this?
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
Probably.
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I use an appliance in my kitchen - it's called a cooker and expressly designed for the job...
I am sorry but I absolutely detest barbecues with a passion
I consider the wretched things antisocial. So many pleasant summer evenings are entirely ruined for me by the awful burning carcass smells they give off. Something I find revolting in the extreme...
I am sorry but I absolutely detest barbecues with a passion
I consider the wretched things antisocial. So many pleasant summer evenings are entirely ruined for me by the awful burning carcass smells they give off. Something I find revolting in the extreme...
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
Seconded.CitroJim wrote:I use an appliance in my kitchen - it's called a cooker and expressly designed for the job...
I am sorry but I absolutely detest barbecues with a passion
I consider the wretched things antisocial. So many pleasant summer evenings are entirely ruined for me by the awful burning carcass smells they give off. Something I find revolting in the extreme...
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
It depends on the location and the people who do it.
Some time back, I saw neighbours having a heated discussion. It turned out that one of them had hung out the washing early that morning, while later on the other had started a BBQ, and all the smoke, dust, etc. had made everything go black.
Another time, when I was up at my mothers, a lot of the boaters had a gathering (at the Bumble Hole), and there was a bit of a party, with music and a BBQ (the coals were in a big raised container, so the grass wasn't damaged). That was fun (and as the meat had been pre-cooked, nobody had any stomach problems).
Some time back, I saw neighbours having a heated discussion. It turned out that one of them had hung out the washing early that morning, while later on the other had started a BBQ, and all the smoke, dust, etc. had made everything go black.
Another time, when I was up at my mothers, a lot of the boaters had a gathering (at the Bumble Hole), and there was a bit of a party, with music and a BBQ (the coals were in a big raised container, so the grass wasn't damaged). That was fun (and as the meat had been pre-cooked, nobody had any stomach problems).
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Now I know that I should have more BBQs and also install some rather noisy wind chimes.
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
The only problem I have with BBQs is the rain they bring and the people who don't know how to use them.
Take my dad for instance, he's one of those people who think there aren't enough flames so best squirt some BBQ fluid on it while it's burning.
Years back he did that just as the wind gusted and ended up singeing all the hair up one arm.
He didn't learn.
Last year they could only get BBQ gel, which is a horrible grey sludge that produces a foul dark grey smoke when squirted onto burning coals.
In order to salvage the BBQ and actually have some properly cooked food I had to take over and send him indoors for an afternoon kip.
Take my dad for instance, he's one of those people who think there aren't enough flames so best squirt some BBQ fluid on it while it's burning.
Years back he did that just as the wind gusted and ended up singeing all the hair up one arm.
He didn't learn.
Last year they could only get BBQ gel, which is a horrible grey sludge that produces a foul dark grey smoke when squirted onto burning coals.
In order to salvage the BBQ and actually have some properly cooked food I had to take over and send him indoors for an afternoon kip.
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Now waht's al this about 'toxity', Addo?
This is straight from the house oven - it's meant to be used as a grill. (ie, under the grill, admittedly).
This is straight from the house oven - it's meant to be used as a grill. (ie, under the grill, admittedly).
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The difference is Tim, that when it's in the oven it's not subject to direct flame and intense heat as it is in a barbie. A good barbie can burn incredibly hotly and much hotter than any domestic oven - remember that charcoal was used in the olden days for making steel, that's how hot it can get.Napoleon wrote:Now waht's al this about 'toxity', Addo?
This is straight from the house oven - it's meant to be used as a grill. (ie, under the grill, admittedly).
I've regularly seen a barbie grill glowing red-hot.
Also, it's likely to be licked by hot naked flames - they can start to decompose the chrome (or other) plating and release toxins as a result...
The only grills you should use on a barbie are plain steels ones, never a plated one.
You have to be a good cook to do well on a barbie and make sure all food is cooked properly. Again, the intense heat makes it quite tricky to do without cremating it...
Food poisoning is about as funny as a road accident...
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Well I'm glad I asked!
At least the meat was cooked without burning as I started with the bricks on high, and lowered as the charcoal diminished in heat.
At least the meat was cooked without burning as I started with the bricks on high, and lowered as the charcoal diminished in heat.
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Re: It's not a French BBQ, but what the heck?!
As Addo says, why is it so many people get BBQ's wrong? Glowing grill? Food being licked by flames? Shouldn't have any of that. OK the odd flame if any dripping fat goes up but again if there's too much you spray the coals with water to let it die down.CitroJim wrote: The difference is Tim, that when it's in the oven it's not subject to direct flame and intense heat as it is in a barbie. A good barbie can burn incredibly hotly and much hotter than any domestic oven - remember that charcoal was used in the olden days for making steel, that's how hot it can get.
I've regularly seen a barbie grill glowing red-hot.
Also, it's likely to be licked by hot naked flames - they can start to decompose the chrome (or other) plating and release toxins as a result...
The only grills you should use on a barbie are plain steels ones, never a plated one.
You have to be a good cook to do well on a barbie and make sure all food is cooked properly. Again, the intense heat makes it quite tricky to do without cremating it...
Food poisoning is about as funny as a road accident...
People are impatient, hence the spraying of lit coals with BBQ fluid, or too much charcoal being used, or cooking while there are still flames so the outside of the meat gets burnt but the inside is raw. People that do that should be restricted to gas BBQs!
Use just enough coal, spray it with a bit of fluid if it's not been pre-soaked (most modern stuff just needs a bit of fluid to get it going, the best I've used was coal in a bag, you light the bag and you're away), stand back, enjoy a cool drink and wait for the flames to go and the coal to turn white, then start cooking nice and slow.
Piping hot, properly cooked, unburnt food.
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They are a shocking waste of good LPGXac wrote:gas BBQs!
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