My beautiful Weber!
A couple of cheery quotes for you:
Good luck with those VOCs, PAHs and HCAs. 
You might as well
Barbecue grills can be problematic for two reasons. First, both charcoal and wood burn “dirty,” producing not only hydrocarbons but also tiny soot particles that pollute the air and can aggravate heart and lung problems. Secondly, the grilling of meat can form two kinds of potentially carcinogenic compounds: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heterocyclic amines (HCAs).
Both briquettes and lump charcoal create air pollution. Lump charcoal, made from charred wood to add flavor (sic), also contributes to deforestation and adds to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Charcoal briquettes do have the benefit of being made partly from sawdust (a good use of waste wood), but popular brands may also contain coal dust, starch, sodium nitrate, limestone and borax.
Scientists in the United Kingdom conducted an Environmental Impact Assessment Review of the two types of grills in 2009 and found that a charcoal grill emitted 2,200 pounds of carbon dioxide over its lifetime – three times the carbon footprint of a natural gas grill, which is responsible for 769 pounds of carbon dioxide.
Grilling with charcoal also produces more air pollutants than gas grills do. Gas grilling isn’t completely clean-burning, but charcoal releases higher levels of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to the formation of smog – which harms not just the environment, but also human health. Starting the charcoal barbecue can also contribute to poor air quality: Lighter fluid and self-lighting charcoals contain chemicals that emit VOCs.
You might as well
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Since those quotes are from
, they're likely to be envirofundamentalist bolleaux peddled by some sandal-wearing warmist in dungarees...
The Environmental Magazine, Westport, CT , ooo-esss-aayy
In Canada, charcoal is now a restricted product under the Hazardous Products Act. Charcoal briquettes in bags that are advertised, imported or sold in Canada must display a label warning of the potential hazards of the product.
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From:
Face it, you're gonna die!
What, one of those useful, modern health warnings like, "Caution, this product may be hot when burning"? You have to love our 'Elf 'n'n Safety' people.
About.com Environmental issues.
Earth 911
A couple of other random places that Google thew up.
But the sandal wearers do seem to hate the charcoal burners the worst.Earth 911
A couple of other random places that Google thew up.
Face it, you're gonna die!
Originally Posted by BEagle
the potential hazards of the product
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In some UK hotels, they now have a silly little sticker saying 'Hot Water - CAUTION'.............next to the hot water tap in the bathroom.
No doubt the lentil-munching sandalista would go nuts if they knew how much toxic by-product can result from piano-burning...
No doubt the lentil-munching sandalista would go nuts if they knew how much toxic by-product can result from piano-burning...
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Pre Start Checklist and Warnings
My wife and I have owned a smokey Joe for years and happily used it to incinerate food related chicken and stuff which was washed down with beer.
Then we had the luck? to win a fabtastic Weber Gas BBQ in the Rotary Club Lottery and I discovered that it actually has a longer pre start checklist (plus warnings of death and dire consequences) than the Airbus which I fly for a living.
Must be getting more chicken than a nugget but have failed to pluck up the courage to fire it up so its stands in magnificent splendour in our garden room.
I am thinking of turning the new Weber into an art installation or cocktail cabinet anyone else done this?
Then we had the luck? to win a fabtastic Weber Gas BBQ in the Rotary Club Lottery and I discovered that it actually has a longer pre start checklist (plus warnings of death and dire consequences) than the Airbus which I fly for a living.
Must be getting more chicken than a nugget but have failed to pluck up the courage to fire it up so its stands in magnificent splendour in our garden room.
I am thinking of turning the new Weber into an art installation or cocktail cabinet anyone else done this?
Checklist? Checklists are for girls.
For an aircraft: Arrange the switches in a catching and eye-pleasing fashion, start the donks and go.
For a gas barbie: Turn knob to "Light". Press red button.
Mind you, my Weber probably came without any CAA clearances and I didn't even have to do a sim first. But after seven years with this model, I'm still alive.
Go on. Try it. What's the worst that could happen?
For an aircraft: Arrange the switches in a catching and eye-pleasing fashion, start the donks and go.
For a gas barbie: Turn knob to "Light". Press red button.
Mind you, my Weber probably came without any CAA clearances and I didn't even have to do a sim first. But after seven years with this model, I'm still alive.
Go on. Try it. What's the worst that could happen?
For an aircraft: Arrange the switches in a catching and eye-pleasing fashion, start the donks and go
Kick the tyres - it makes the groundcrew think you're bothered.
Move the shinies - on account of the fact that they're obviously moved often, so need to be reset to the opposite position.
Leave the rusties - such as the weird mud moving crap on the lower centre panel in the F-4 or similarly ancient, much corroded switchery in the Hunter. They haven't been touched for years, so leave them alone.
Light the fires - obvious. Wave finger, press tit, weee....waaaah...AvPin the smell of freedom, wait for the groundcrew lad's thumb up. Gennies on, radio on, IFF on, power controls on, drop full flap, back up to 2 notches, wave chocks away.
Brief on Guard - things like Hunters needed gennies on before the ARC52 / PTR175 worked, so use the s'by UHF whilst the Avon is firing up. 243.8 MHz if you had a spare finger to hold down the 'alpha' switch, otherwise 243'll do.
Last one airborne's a homo - obvious! Just ask a gas user...
Such fun times!
Anyway, trusty blackfellow is back inside the garage for a couple of days, due to the SOP British Spring Wx!
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The Australian version:
For an aircraft: Arrange the switches in a catching and eye-pleasing fashion, start the donks and go. If they don't start, put the switches in the correct positions and... etc.
The Australian version:
For an aircraft: Arrange the switches in a catching and eye-pleasing fashion, start the donks and go. If they don't start, put the switches in the correct positions and... etc.
no chef's hat?
To be fair, I only wear mine [and the Royal Sandringham apron] when we have what is called "company". Smoked trout for starters.
Still wearing the supply freely available at Portadown Way JHQ, but then the Catering Officer lived and dwelled among us.
To be fair, I only wear mine [and the Royal Sandringham apron] when we have what is called "company". Smoked trout for starters.
Still wearing the supply freely available at Portadown Way JHQ, but then the Catering Officer lived and dwelled among us.