My beautiful Weber!
Exactly ex-fast. My gas Weber has been fired up multiple times this winter/spring (and that doesn't count the several meals I cooked on gas Webers while on a ski trip to Colorado in February-March).
Moved to a new place last summer - lost my covered deck but gained a huge covered carport where I can park my Weber and smoker (along with a couple cars
). The only downside is that it is a short walk from back door to the carport so if it's raining I can still get wet 'in transit' 
). Thinking about adding a roof to the deck to solve that particular problem, but it's low on the priority list at the moment.
This is a holiday weekend on this side of the pond (Memorial Day) - so as a minimum I'll be cooking burgers and some chicken on the Weber on Sunday and/or Monday.
Moved to a new place last summer - lost my covered deck but gained a huge covered carport where I can park my Weber and smoker (along with a couple cars
). The only downside is that it is a short walk from back door to the carport so if it's raining I can still get wet 'in transit' ). Thinking about adding a roof to the deck to solve that particular problem, but it's low on the priority list at the moment.This is a holiday weekend on this side of the pond (Memorial Day) - so as a minimum I'll be cooking burgers and some chicken on the Weber on Sunday and/or Monday.
Gas....Charcoal....obsolete.
Wood Pellet Grills and Smokers are the new tech and combine the good features of the other two.
Plus you can sit down the Pub and control the Grill. using your smart phone!
Look up Recteq and their 700 model with Smoke Box......pretty close to perfection.
Wood Pellet Grills and Smokers are the new tech and combine the good features of the other two.
Plus you can sit down the Pub and control the Grill. using your smart phone!
Look up Recteq and their 700 model with Smoke Box......pretty close to perfection.
As someone who still uses a 'dinosaur phone' Nokia 6310i, the idea of using some 'smart' phone controlled e-barbi' is frankly anathema to me!
But chacun à son goût!
But chacun à son goût!
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Those with any sense and non-Russian-gas BBQs will, like me, have been enjoying properly grilled food without having to wait for the tricky British weather to decide if it is safe to cook outdoors.
Go gas and save yourself the trauma that the charcoal brigade seem to suffer - and remind us of their difficulty - every year!
Go gas and save yourself the trauma that the charcoal brigade seem to suffer - and remind us of their difficulty - every year!
Whereas gas: it's ok ... but it's like yet another 737 on final approach to Stanstead
The trick is to have a lot of sausages handy that you can throw on the charcoal after you've cooked the "real" meal
oh and I'm in Texas, so the only effect the weather has is whether or not you actually need a grill to cook the food
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Gas....Charcoal....obsolete.
Wood Pellet Grills and Smokers are the new tech and combine the good features of the other two.
Plus you can sit down the Pub and control the Grill. using your smart phone!
Look up Recteq and their 700 model with Smoke Box......pretty close to perfection.
Wood Pellet Grills and Smokers are the new tech and combine the good features of the other two.
Plus you can sit down the Pub and control the Grill. using your smart phone!
Look up Recteq and their 700 model with Smoke Box......pretty close to perfection.
It definitely looks appealing, but the bottom line is that it won't do anything that I can't already do with my smoker and gas Weber (with many years of experience to perfect the technique). I also have a 4-channel remote sensor to monitor the internal meat temperatures in the smoker.
If/when it comes time to replace the existing hardware, I'll definitely consider a pellet grill, but the Weber is so well built it should last a long time (the first two gas grills I got were cheap $100 deals that fell apart in a few years, that's when I looked at the Weber and appreciated how well made it was and it's already lasted over 20 years).
Engine cooking.
I've never used a carburettor to cook food, but we did fit a welded steel box to the exhaust manifold on our car, to heat baby food cans in hot water, whilst driving.
I recall the late Keith Floyd cooking something wrapped in foil on a car engine somewhere in the outback - "30 minutes at Cortina Mark 4" was his comment!
I used to do some mobile telecoms work long ago which often required being outside in the cold. On the way I would stop at the garage and buy some kind of pie and then promptly wrap it in foil and then tie wrap it to the exhaust manifold. Half the time you would arrive with a nicely warmed pie but the other half you would be greeted by half melted tie wraps. That's the gamble.
At one of the RAF BFTS stations in the 1970s, the groundcrew would pop a NAAFI rat pie on the jet pipe surround during turn round servicing.....
One day one of the lads was called away whilst his pie was warming up. Meanwhile the new crew came out, cranked up and taxiied out. Much smoke issuing from where it shouldn't and out came the fire wagons..... The crew weren't too impressed when they found out the cause, neither was the lad whose pie had been cremated!
One day one of the lads was called away whilst his pie was warming up. Meanwhile the new crew came out, cranked up and taxiied out. Much smoke issuing from where it shouldn't and out came the fire wagons..... The crew weren't too impressed when they found out the cause, neither was the lad whose pie had been cremated!
I suppose that add to the quantity of gas generated.
After the BBQ, you can cook salmon by wrapping it in foil and putting it in the dishwasher with the dirty dishes.
Recently been to Weber BBQ school. After all these years of incinerating bratties and friks my outdoor cooking has gone in to warp drive. Now working my way through Tom Kerridge's outdoor cookbook all done on the trusty Weber kettle and washed down with wobbly.
'tis that time, sadly....
'tis that time, sadly, when the wonderful black orb plus garden table and chairs have been relocated to the back of the home within which my Teutonic Tourer (20 years old and still going well!) resides.
For some reason (too hot / too wet / too bone idle), I didn't manage to get round to firing up the beast this year. But a quick visual check reveals that it's still all tickety-boo and ready for next Spring! Hopefully the unopened bag of charcoal will still be OK then too!
In today's RAF, are people still importing the wonderful world of Weber to the UK after trips various to the USofA?
For some reason (too hot / too wet / too bone idle), I didn't manage to get round to firing up the beast this year. But a quick visual check reveals that it's still all tickety-boo and ready for next Spring! Hopefully the unopened bag of charcoal will still be OK then too!
In today's RAF, are people still importing the wonderful world of Weber to the UK after trips various to the USofA?
'tis that time, sadly, when the wonderful black orb plus garden table and chairs have been relocated to the back of the home within which my Teutonic Tourer (20 years old and still going well!) resides.
For some reason (too hot / too wet / too bone idle), I didn't manage to get round to firing up the beast this year. But a quick visual check reveals that it's still all tickety-boo and ready for next Spring! Hopefully the unopened bag of charcoal will still be OK then too!
In today's RAF, are people still importing the wonderful world of Weber to the UK after trips various to the USofA?
For some reason (too hot / too wet / too bone idle), I didn't manage to get round to firing up the beast this year. But a quick visual check reveals that it's still all tickety-boo and ready for next Spring! Hopefully the unopened bag of charcoal will still be OK then too!
In today's RAF, are people still importing the wonderful world of Weber to the UK after trips various to the USofA?
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Only got 2 in UK one at Easter ironically and another in May. Other times out of the country or weekends wet or doing something else. Says a lot about UK summer in the Northern UK 😢
Cheers
Mr Mac
Only got 2 in UK one at Easter ironically and another in May. Other times out of the country or weekends wet or doing something else. Says a lot about UK summer in the Northern UK 😢
Cheers
Mr Mac