Show us your BBQ
itboffin
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Current itboffin BBQ
The gas bottle is made of fibre glass, I wonder if they do them in carbon?
I think an upgrade is needed ...
The gas bottle is made of fibre glass, I wonder if they do them in carbon?
I think an upgrade is needed ...
Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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that's not a bbq, it's an outdoor oven. You need WOOD (possibly in the form of charcoal)0
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Keeps hissing it down up here. Blowing a gale - no BBQ weather0
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So ITB is the reason my fuel bills are so high!
But as thelawnet said, that is as much a proper BBQ as a Gocycle is a proper bicycle, it ain't.
Gas is cheating, really should have cut the gas tank out of the image.
MTFU! Men build firesFood Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
nice bbq although I use a real one myselfFcn 5
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DonDaddyD wrote:So ITB is the reason my fuel bills are so high!
But as thelawnet said, that is as much a proper BBQ as a Gocycle is a proper bicycle, it ain't.
Gas is cheating, really should have cut the gas tank out of the image.
MTFU! Men build fires
Now now, caveman Sam, like you, I too used to be in the "man make fire, woman do salad, now eat!"
In keeping with the modern metrosexual, however, I have seen the light. Gas is better in every way.
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The beauty of a real BBQ is the variety of fuels you can use, we even use ours for post BBQ 'campfires'
Get a BBQ with a lid and you can smoke food too."Coming through..."0 -
I thought we had this discussion in depth recently.
To re-iterate ITB wood or at a pinch charcoal is the only outdoor cooking option for a man.
'cept possibly for a pit filled with hot rocks, a haunch of venison and then covered over with moss for the really manly. Still, you'd use a wood fire to heat the rocks in the first place!FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.0 -
SimonAH, that reminds me of seeing Ray Mears cook a leg of deer in the way described before turning to the camera and saying, " when im with my family I often cook a whole deer using this method"
So a real man not only cooks without the aid of hydrocarbons, he also cooks whole animals....0 -
ITB is banned from using wood on the BBQ after trying to haul a fallen tree from Savernake Forest on the back of his cross bike one commute home last summer.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Greg66 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:So ITB is the reason my fuel bills are so high!
But as thelawnet said, that is as much a proper BBQ as a Gocycle is a proper bicycle, it ain't.
Gas is cheating, really should have cut the gas tank out of the image.
MTFU! Men build fires
Now now, caveman Sam, like you, I too used to be in the "man make fire, woman do salad, now eat!"
In keeping with the modern metrosexual, however, I have seen the light. Gas is better in every way.
FACT!
I do my Christmas turkey on the (real!!) bbq. It comes out the colour of tea with crispy skin and a slightly smokey flavour. It's nothing like gas....
Of course if you are just tossing Birdseye beefburgers on there, it doesn't matter that much (but it's still wrong, and emasculating).0 -
It's all well and good but the charcoal /wood evangelists probably only have on or two BBQs a year. with gas and lava rocks you can have a meat feast at the slightst hint of sunshine when I "upgraded" to gas it meant BBQed meat a couple of times a week thru the whole summer. I'm not convinced the extra hassle is worth it?
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squeeler wrote:It's all well and good but the charcoal /wood evangelists probably only have on or two BBQs a year. with gas and lava rocks you can have a meat feast at the slightst hint of sunshine when I "upgraded" to gas it meant BBQed meat a couple of times a week thru the whole summer. I'm not convinced the extra hassle is worth it?
The quality of your ingredients is most important IMO
Yup it's always about the quality of your meat 8) :roll: :P
Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
squeeler wrote:It's all well and good but the charcoal /wood evangelists probably only have on or two BBQs a year
Well I have one at Christmas, so that means I'm stuffed for the rest of the year eh?
If I just want to bbq one thing, if it's raining perhaps, I have a high-quality portable gas BBQ (can bring inside) as well, but if the weather's nice and you're eating outside anyway, the extra effort to get the charcoal BBQ going is negligible when you're going to be bringing food, plates, etc. in and out of the kitchen.0 -
squeeler wrote:It's all well and good but the charcoal /wood evangelists probably only have on or two BBQs a year. with gas and lava rocks you can have a meat feast at the slightst hint of sunshine when I "upgraded" to gas it meant BBQed meat a couple of times a week thru the whole summer. I'm not convinced the extra hassle is worth it?
The quality of your ingredients is most important IMO
This is exactly the case. I used to cook on charcoal, occasionally, very well as it happens. Now I cook on gas, whenever the mood takes me. Take tonight for instance:
And frankly, anyone who says they barbecue well on a barbecue without a lid, is lying. It's the smoke from the fat that flavours the barbecue, you need the lid to keep it in.0 -
Loving the little modesty screen to hide the gas bottle just to maintain the illusion. :P
I take the point about the ease and reliability of gas, but then if I was really worried about ease and reliability I wouldn't use the barbecue in the first place.
Just bought ourselves a new one this weekend as it happens - nothing flash, just one of those that look like a giant metal burger bun, fueled with charcoal. Mrs RJS had the first go on it and cooked some very nice chicken legs, so not sure where that leaves me on the whole "man make fire" thing.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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As stated by people, a gas "barbecue" is essentially your cooker but outside. And that's great and fantastic if you want to have a cooker in the kitchen and a cooker outside, then go for it. It's not like cooking food on a fire though.0
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I am definitely a fan of charcoal BBQs, I don't mind gas ones but I wouldn't bother getting one. Firstly I love making fire! Secondly I haven't got a car so I have no way of transporting heaving, bulky cannisters of gas around, bags of charcoal are a little easier to stick in a rucksack and whizz back from the supermarket with on the bike.
I went to Australia a few years back and was very disappointed to see that everyone uses gas and not only that but they often have flat metal plates to cook on, so essentially you are simply frying outdoors, there's no way for the fat to drip through the grill and flavour the food. I was determined to get a proper charcoal fire going but for the life of me couldn't get charcoal or firelighters anywhere! In the end found some at some random little shop but it was absolutely rubbish - the firelighters wouldn't stay lit so there was no way to get the charcoal up to temp. I was very surprised about this in the spiritual home of teh BBQ!Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
Headhuunter wrote:I went to Australia a few years back and was very disappointed to see that everyone uses gas and not only that but they often have flat metal plates to cook on, so essentially you are simply frying outdoors, there's no way for the fat to drip through the grill and flavour the food. I was determined to get a proper charcoal fire going but for the life of me couldn't get charcoal or firelighters anywhere! In the end found some at some random little shop but it was absolutely rubbish - the firelighters wouldn't stay lit so there was no way to get the charcoal up to temp.
One of these http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... mineas+%2F
and some old newspaper...0 -
thelawnet wrote:Headhuunter wrote:I went to Australia a few years back and was very disappointed to see that everyone uses gas and not only that but they often have flat metal plates to cook on, so essentially you are simply frying outdoors, there's no way for the fat to drip through the grill and flavour the food. I was determined to get a proper charcoal fire going but for the life of me couldn't get charcoal or firelighters anywhere! In the end found some at some random little shop but it was absolutely rubbish - the firelighters wouldn't stay lit so there was no way to get the charcoal up to temp.
One of these http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... mineas+%2F
and some old newspaper...
Never seen one of those before... How do they work? I can't see how that and a bunch of newspaper would get the coals going...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
Headhuunter wrote:thelawnet wrote:Headhuunter wrote:I went to Australia a few years back and was very disappointed to see that everyone uses gas and not only that but they often have flat metal plates to cook on, so essentially you are simply frying outdoors, there's no way for the fat to drip through the grill and flavour the food. I was determined to get a proper charcoal fire going but for the life of me couldn't get charcoal or firelighters anywhere! In the end found some at some random little shop but it was absolutely rubbish - the firelighters wouldn't stay lit so there was no way to get the charcoal up to temp.
One of these http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... mineas+%2F
and some old newspaper...
Never seen one of those before... How do they work? I can't see how that and a bunch of newspaper would get the coals going...
Chimney effect....
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When I lived in Oz I never saw one person (Aussie or otherwise) using a charcoal BBQ - all had gas, and I am led to believe the Aussies know a thing or 2 about BBQing...
If I want a fire for after food warmth, I'll use the fire pit. For cooking, gas is far simpler, easier to control and pretty much instant.
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mrobbie wrote:When I lived in Oz I never saw one person (Aussie or otherwise) using a charcoal BBQ - all had gas, and I am led to believe the Aussies know a thing or 2 about BBQing...
If I want a fire for after food warmth, I'll use the fire pit. For cooking, gas is far simpler, easier to control and pretty much instant.
The thing that surprised me in Oz was that not only did they not use charcoal but they basically used these flat "frying" surfaces to cook the food, almost like a built in frying pan over a gas stove. The whole point of a BBQ is that, as others have pointed out, the fat drips onto the coals (or gas stuff) burns and then flavours the food with smoke returning through the bars of the grill. In Australia people essentially seemed to use big outdoor frying pans!Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
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Headhuunter wrote:Never seen one of those before... How do they work? I can't see how that and a bunch of newspaper would get the coals going...
I've got the webber version and thought the same thing, so I stuck about 7 cheap fire lighters underneath and watched un awe as the resulting smoke meant we had to evacuate the back garden and shut all the windows and doors in the house, as did our neighbours.
The coal is ready to use in about 15 minutes, assuming you only use one fire lighter or a bit of newspaper.0 -
Sirrus_Lee wrote:Headhuunter wrote:Never seen one of those before... How do they work? I can't see how that and a bunch of newspaper would get the coals going...
I've got the webber version and thought the same thing, so I stuck about 7 cheap fire lighters underneath and watched un awe as the resulting smoke meant we had to evacuate the back garden and shut all the windows and doors in the house, as did our neighbours.
The coal is ready to use in about 15 minutes, assuming you only use one fire lighter or a bit of newspaper.
Really? You only need 1 firelighter and a whole bucket of those coals is hot in 15 mins?Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
How to light a BBQ
(I'm sure the canned laughter was'nt on the telly programme.)
Graham.
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I'm a charcoal man, Weber Kettle at home and this one for on the move;
Turns into this once lit.
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After an impressive week of BBQ, Beer & 35c+ sunshine were finally back home, BBQ at friends this evening then I must do something about the 10lbs I've gained :?Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0
