Flavoured Coal
 

As far as coal/heat beads, briquettes are concerned - you cant beat them, but DONT get the 'flavoured' ones - I'm getting a little sick of the 'mesquitte' taste of a nice bit o' meat....and just 'cos the package has a map of Oz on it, it doesn't mean that we actually use that type of stuff. - the same goes for BBQ brands, beer, some wine and other 'outdoor' products.

I'm Oz and proud of it - and I don't do GAS!, although I sometimes cannot hide the effect of a slab of VB the following morning.

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord Weber!

If you look at the official Weber-site Home - Weber Barbecues & Products*, you can get the latest info about all available Webers, even those powered by the fuel of Satan's bottom....

Basically, I would recommend that you accept no imitations!

Incidentally, I'm glad to report that the VB is really rather good - thanks for the recommendation!

* This is a link to an information site, NOT an advert!

Congrats BEagle on taking up the challenge. While I will disagree and still think it's P155, you were gutsy enough to give it a go. Consequently, I respect your (somewhat puzzling) conclusion.

As for:

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Home final for the Bulls. It's going to be a hot time in the old town tonight. Pretty much IMC with the smoke from all the braais. The beer will flow like Mosi o Tunya and boerewors will be consumed by the nautical mile.:ok:

SRT, just make sure you follow the appropriate Braai Etiquette

Not with that girlie braai involved. How can you take those okes seriously when they obviously have no idea about real braais?

Bloody Castle drinkers. End up looking like this...

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...leDrinkers.jpg

Ag, bru, the film was made in London, Engalnd; digging up the garden and using left over bits of building site to build one of your ethnic braais wouldn't have been very popular with the neighbours!

A Saffer mate reckoned that some of those at the braai were probably, shall we say, gas lovers...:ooh:

Well, Dame Nature has at last decided to smile once more on British West Oxfordshire, so the noble blackfellow has been getting a fair bit of exercise over the last couple of days.

I'm almost down to my last 6 stubbies of VB as well....:eek:

How was the game, SRT?

Hi CB, see you and your lovely 'Tin Triangle' next weekend!*


*Tenuous link to military aviation to keep AIDU and his various alter egos happy!

Didn't see the game but got the updates on line as it progressed. Got a bit nail biting but all worked out OK.

Gas lovers, eh? Figures. Definitely don't want to drop your sosatie with those folks hovering about in the background.......:}

Tenuous link to military aviation
 

Looking forward to it BEags, I'm not sure the cafe at WM is a good substitute for the trusty Weber though!

But we can give you a good helping of AVRO's finest.....:):):)

CB

Hmm, my boss recently admitted to polishing his lid, is this normal behaviour?

It sounds like the first step in the downward spiral to accepting the use of the fuel of Satan's bottom, to my mind...:eek:

Beags
I do hope you were wearing your blue singlet(vest), stubbies(too short too tight shorts) and thongs(flip flops) whilst consuming the Bogan juice known as VB.:}
As a pukka true blue little aussie the discerning ale drinker of downunder would go for one of the Cooper's families nectar drops or a Little Creatures collection.
Net nanny has just highlighted Beagle and thong????:(:=:sad:
Charlie sends

Nope, the full 'Donk' lookalike costume might be OK in Walkabout Creek, but not here in British West Oxfordshire!

Where it's b£oody raining again....

A misunderstanding once arose when an Oz mate described the hot weather we were experiencing as "Singlets and thongs weather" - he hurriedly explained that 'thongs' in Oz often means footwear and not those bits of coloured dental floss worn by some women......:eek:

The Perfect Weekend?
 

My fellow Weberists (and devotees of the one true fuel),

I believe I have just experienced what could possibly be described as the perfect weekend. Took Glide Junior to Twickers for the weekend to watch the IRB Sevens. Having dispatched Australia in the Cup Semi-Finals, we watched as England duly dispatched the Kiwis in the final. Slow trip home to Glide Towers on Monday where, upon arrival late PM, one discovered that not only had the Salad Maker done just that, she had also replenished the stocks of Fiddlers Elbow, obtained flesh for the grill AND cut the grass:ok::ok::ok:

Rugby (winning), Beer, a lit Weber, and somone else mowed the lawn. I submit to you the perfect weekend?

Indeed. And what perfect bank holiday weekend wx it was too.
My first UK spring in nearly 20yrs, grilled cow with Spitfire(*) ale to boot listening to rythmn and blues. Simply sublime.

Is this really the England of my youth. Nay lad.

It was pi$$ing it down first thing this morning. That's more like it.

They're even producing blue boerewors in honour of the Bulls taking on the Chiefs in the Super 14 final on Saturday...

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...024_523810.jpg


Fortunately most of the boerewors yardage will be grilled on the real thing and not in The Devil's Scrotum.

Wonder if it causes blue poo too ?

"To be celebrated at weekends and at both ends."

SRT,

We have just finished our warm-up for the final, which included a hunk of beef, plenty of roast potatoes, non-Gas Webering, and, for the information of BEagle, non-VB beer.

Despite your predeliction for your 'braais,' and your reluctance to follow the one true faith in devotion to the glorious orb, I wish the Bulls well: it'll be 0130 before we see the game here, but I'm staying up, or maybe lying down, to watch it.

Damn, I wish I could have got some of those boerewors for the atmosphere, but we don't have the practitioners here.

Anyway, good luck to the Bulls. Hope you enjoy the game.

Excellent day it was on Sunday! Thanks to the kind generosity of ramshornvortex and his colleagues, I had a great time showing some ex-ULAS folk around his mighty Vulcan at Wellsebourne Mountford - XM655 is in fine form!

Then back to spark up the trusty blackfellow and sample a VB or two whilst waiting for the True Fuel to come up to the right temp to cook a couple of Bratwurst and some Bratkartoffeln.

Ta, Mr Howabout...!:ok:

A great game by all accounts. 61-17 the final score. I missed the game being out here in the desert in my little container and all but not too sorry I missed the huge hangovers that followed.:E A yard of boerie and a sosatie would have been nice though.

Sounds like a good day out Beags. A coupe of kasegriller and a barrel of weissbier would have rounded it off nicely. One is particularly fond of the Thuringi bratties.

Normally I'd indeed have had some Erdinger Hefe-Weißbier, but it was a choice between VB and Stella 4% as I'd run out!

I haven't found anywhere in the UK which sells Käse-Griller, unfortunately.

Yerssss....

Can't even get a Russian and chips at the corner cafe in your neck of the woods.:suspect:

A Namibian mate owns a brewery near where I live and turns out a very nice weissbier. His rauchbier is a bit dodgy but I prefer the weissbier in summer in any case. Just wish the local purveyors weren't so bloody lazy and cleaned out the pipes more than once a week. I've taken to getting it direct from the brewery as the dirty barstewards in town can't (or won't) keep their beer pumps clean.

BEagle, seek and ye shall find.

- Welcome

Now, rapidly trying to find an aviation link to that site to avoid the wrath of PPRune Pop.

Well, yes - except the minimum order is half a pallet! Much as I enjoy the occasional German snag or two, even I would baulk at £1185 worth of Deutsche-porkers as that's about 1500 of the things!

Tenuous link between German beer and military aviation (to keep AIDU and his various alter egos quiet):

As a PPL Examiner for the Brize Flying Club, I was empowered to set the RT exam for any military pilot who needed a pass for his commercial licence as one did back then. I did quite a few - then one day a fast jet mate from Germany got in touch. He was on exchange with the Luftwaffe and was about to leave the RAF to join the airlines. Having assured him that I could certainly set him his exam, he agreed to come over to Brize to do it. So, one fine day he grabbed an innocent WSO, got his squadron boss' approval and flew his Tornado on an airways flight to Brize. Then did the exam and flew home again - once again via airways. All that just to satisfy some absurd CAA requirement!

The price for the exam? "Bitte ein Bit!" - or rather, einige!!

BBQ RULES
We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity . When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:
Routine...
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.
Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.
More routine...
(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat

Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.
More routine...
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.
(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.


And most important of all:

(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.
(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ' her night off ', and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's just no pleasing some women. :)

BBQ RULES - AMENDMENT

(1) Delete 'buys' and insert 'is intructed what meat to buy. Greenery may be at woman's discretion'.

Insert new para 2A 'The woman will watch the fire making process without making any superfluous comments such as "Mind you don't burn yourself"'

(7) Delete '..and asks if she will bring another beer..' and insert '..and holds out his hand for another beer..'

(8) Insert 'AFTER HACKING BITS OFF TO TEST IT....' before 'THE MAN..'

Beags and for all those who remember RAFG try:

German Deli

Schoen...

BBQ Rules AL-2

Preamble section, insert just after the index, and before Rule # 1:

NO GAS BBQs PERMITTED,




....standing by for urgent amendment staffing thru Handling Sqn... (just to keep the relevance in the mil thread).

Probably not manly enough for the Braaimasters here but I managed to make my best burgers on Saturday.
Thai chilli burgers using scotch bonnet chilli's. (very very hot, but still keeping great taste).

Also put together some good homemade sate turkey skewers, which was pleasing.

Yum, just need to find a local supplier of VB, one of the guys said that Sainsbury's sometimes do it.

As if any OIC BBQ would dare get a gas BBQ!

Got me drooling, Mr Gimpy. Nothing beats a goodly dab of chili on dashed near any meat. Bit of a shortage in these parts but one is making do with achaar and curried chilis.

The best burgers are those done on the grill over white hot embers for mere seconds on each side. Make 'em thick and juicy, slap on a bun and shovel it down. The salad has only one function:- to be used as bait to attract the next course.

Oh, and hot English mustard. Can't do without it...:ok:

SRT, your fundamental orifice must glow in the dark with that sort of diet. Be careful lest there are gas fags around attracted by the glow!

GPMG, try Majestic Wine 84-88 Park Street Camberley GU15 3NY - they certainly sell Vicky Bravo at that location. Should go well with your thermonuclear burgers!

Rev I. Tin - thanks so much! Lots of tasty Boche-nosh at that site and well worth a punt!

LJR - totally correct. Gas...., well, it just isn't done!

The trick is to smuggle ducks in passing and rot their sinuses with the foul efflusion. The real trick is not to blow out your skiddies like a flash bang near open flames when doing it.

That German deli looks the business. Worth seeing if they have sugar cones to throw together a feuerzangbolle around the braai next time it gets cold and miserable in those parts, which should be in oohhhh, about three days....:E

https://www.germandeli.co.uk/sess/ut...%2B=28SU003=29

Yup! Zuckerhut - they do have them. Now you just need a tub of gluhwein and a large bottle of 80 proof Stroh rum.:E

BBQ Rules - AL3

Insert (2a)

- Coals men waste valuable drinking time in preparation and
lighting of said fuel

- Gas men hit the igniter and consume extra glass of VB

PS: Re my post521, small mod to my Outback has resolved the issue. Today's rendering (and the VB) much applauded by yet another Oz visitor. Go Gas

"Coals men waste valuable drinking time in preparation and
lighting of said fuel"

it is possible/compulsory to drink whilst performing said task

perhaps gas users just can't multi task?

Oh dear oh dear oh dear :rolleyes:

VB or Green Label, old chap, please :ugh:



Jindy 2a :ok:

SRT,

No sweat. While I am partial to nationalistic sentiment, the Bulls deserved their day in the sun. I thoroughly enjoyed the game and the best S14 side came away with the laurels. Notwithstanding, we'll tan your hides next year (maybe).

As regards Jindabyne's comment as follows:

I'd forego the 'extra glass of VB' because it would take longer to vomit than to light the coals of the sacred orb.

As knowitall also points out, we non-gas users happen to be multi-skilled. I cannot recall a single instance where arcing up the orb created a problem with my consumption of beer that was of the non-VB variety. Admittedly, if I was solely reliant on Vomit Beer (VB), there may have been complications. Thankfully, we have alternatives.

A Cockney BBQ
 

It’s been Pleasure And Pain all day with no Current Bun.

Duchess Of Fife not around so no chance of a Barn Owl and I’m Pat Malone.
Fed the Cherry Hog and Brown Hat and I’m stuck in the Mickey Mouse.

Checked the Gordon And Gotch, it’s Harry Tate and it’s time for a steak Tommy Tucker and that's Just the Bat And Wicket.

There’s a wx window – do I need an Auntie Ella - 'Well punk do you? Do you really feel that lucky?”

With my Mince Pies it’s Major Stevens - time to Scapa Flow.

Get the Aristotle, Arthur Scargill a Tiddlywink and make sure the cow is well ’n’ truly Brown Bread.

Fire up BBQ, get the hot plate hotter than Ding Dong Bell, throw on the cow and Bended Knees that cost more than a Lady Godiva and Babbling Brook it like we all know how.

…....60 mins later it’s all in the dishwasher no worries matey shame about my Brixton Riot.

Second bottle of Tumble Down The Sink on the way and we’re all getting Elephant's Trunk, all ready to PPrune.


And it’s all so, soooo - easy, peasy, Lemon Squeezy ……….and WHY ???


Cos it woz don wiv GAS - Guv'nor.



Accept no substitutes in the Tropics - or you’d be Marbles And Conkers
You know it makes sense and that’s no Porky Pies.




And as for a link to military aviation, it's all in there my son. :ok:

Harry Tate...

My UAS QFI's grandfather was killed in one of those in WW1 - they didn't know about spin recovery in those days and the RE-8 wouldn't recover of its own volition.

Truly extraordinary men and nearly a hundred years ago.

"The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 was a British two-seat biplane reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of the First World War. Intended as a replacement for the vulnerable B.E.2, the R.E.8 was much more difficult to fly,"

I had the privilege of seeing this – and before the airshow.

B.E.2, Avro 504 and Spitfire debut at Omaka news - Aeroplane Magazine - History in the Air

You will appreciate the lineage, of course.

Although I am not too sure about the link to Webers ;)