webber upgrade
 

any of you passing through the eastern med I have upgraded my kettle weber for a somewhat larger version curtesy of an american friend so for reasonable offers and providing you have your own timmy or herc you can collect. just pop into the air movs office the advert is in control.

Also does anyone own a charcoal kiln as the new beast needs a small forest to get going!

rusty_monkey - kindly refer post 763

This is a kiln and hence you can make your own charcoal in it and not have to put up with that freeze dried and flavoured excrement sold to the Piltdown club as briquettes.

So if you're somewhere sane like godzone then you'll be in heaven as it were. Fine City on the other hand :(


the ones I've seen have buffalo butts.


Hopefully someone will post pics to prove this statement wrong :E

The 'Live' magazine/supplement in the Mail on Sunday (16th May) had a review of various barbies. Not a scientific review by any measure, but it does provide some comparisons.

Out of 15 models listed/reviewed, only two acheived a 5-star rating ...
one was a 'Swiss Grill' costing £1300 from Harrods (!:ooh:) - but it's gas-powered, so doesn't really count; and the other was the Weber Compact Kettle costing £100 from Lakeland.

Good to see Weber BBQs doing well on tonight's Gadget Show with a Weber coming out top in their test of 25 BBQs. Unfortunately it was a, ahem, gas powered Weber!!

....and it was £2300!!!!!!!!

EGVN 260850Z 16004KT CAVOK 22/13 Q1017 NOSIG

EGVN 260712Z 2609/2709 13005KT 9999 FEW045

Looks like it's time to fire up the faithful blackfellow again! But I'm Bingo1 on VB...:eek:

(That should annoy 'crumblywhitemuttpoo' or whatever the miserable git's nom de PPRuNe is...)

I am sad to admit after five years faithful service as a steak and swordfish cooking device and also spending its spare time as a blast furnace my beloved Oil Drum is failing.

I am either going to have to steal another drum or else I'm actually going to have to spend money.....

Also Beags, what is this VB wuftywuss drink you are prattling on about??

Gas is for American cars and Pussies (unless its LPG in which case it goes in V8 land rovers)

My beautiful weber
 

Bought it in Cyprus - too ashamed to use it - continued using charcoal in a big tin. Got it home, used it once, got divorced - still trying to get custody.

SOS

Life's too short to worry about stuff like that. Wish her well with it, and buy yourself another one. Make sure you get a better model, and smile to yourself every time you use it.

Not that I have any experience in this matter....:E :ouch:

Beer can chicken last week, flank steak yesterday. :ok:

R280
 

You're so right. I'll stick to charcoal in a big tin and enjoy the caveman feeling.

SOS

I tried a few months ago but got no takers, as this thread is back at the top I'll have another go:

Does anyone want the later type weber ash bin (the one that replace's the alloy dish between the legs) I have one in v good condition and it's FREE! I'm in the Leconfield or York area.

Seasons of mist and mellow...and all that - one's trusty (and increasingly rusty) blackfellow is keeping the mower company in the garage until spring doth once more warm the parts.... Hey ho - where did summer go?

As an Ozmate once said "English summer - isn't that an oxymoron?"

Anyway, I hope the kipper fleet mates will still have an opportunity to go a-route stealing somewhere in the world after whatever cuts come tomorrow - the legacy of Trust-me-Tone and Incapability Brown....:mad:

Just had to wake up the Weber from hibernation while we wait for Medieval Housing Solutions to get their act together and fix our cooker (2 weeks and counting so far). Beer Butt Chicken still tastes good in Autumn and the Weber helps keep me warm as I cook!!

Well, here we are in the UK's barbi' season again, it seems!

But, sadly, what a lot of changes since the last post on this thread....:{

No more Harriers or Nimrod MRs, pilot training slashed, navigator training canned completely, dozens of WSOps out of a job....

...and yet there's a North African ar$e-kicking party in full swing?

Not much to smile about in Aunty Betty's Flying Club these days, so a few hours of practical survival training involving the Sacred Black Orb, bits of raw beast and beer a-plenty might perhaps at least dull the misery.

A question. When was the last time that someone was able to bring a Weber back from 'tother side of the pond in the back of their jet?

We still have some frames in the colonies and it is always the right weather somewhere on the big rock. Still fill up the back of our chunky chariot regularly with all sorts, but alas she not a jet and it does get rather bumpy in the clouds:yuk:.
But Beags VB (very bogan) really old fella, try a little hahn premium or a jimmy boags, the beast is warming up for a Mc Charlie breakkie:ok:
Charlie sends

Charlie,

watch those eyebrows

Used mine for the first time this year today - still retains a Goch BX price sticker on the legs.

Welcome back My Beautiful Weber! I have always found this a most useful thread. Whenever one's remarks on other threads in this forum provoke the comment that they have little to do with military aviation, I always cite the continuing existence of MBW as proof that the ROE are meant to be bent, as even the various ways of cremating food are permitted as a topic.

I should state that I have never at any time cooked a meal on barbeque, not have I any intention of ever so doing, but I defend to the death your right to do so, and to discuss it ad nauseam if that's what pleases you.

Good luck MBW - see you next year :ok:

Ahh the beautiful Weber; 22 inches of black glory. She's 16 years old now with a couple of minor dints on the rim and a little rusty in parts but she can still cook a very fine meal. Minor session on Friday for the first BBQ of the year, followed by a full-thrash event on Saturday.

The Weber herself has been rewarded with a new rack (I like the 'new' flip-up sides) a good clean, screws tightened and some spray polish for that mirror-black look.

BEags. In answer to your question, for me just over 2 years ago in one of the aircraft you mention as having left service :( (although it wasn't from 'tother side of the Pond, unless you count it arriving at the Sig BX from 'tother side before I procured it). A nice new One Touch to replace my then 22 year old one lost to me when Mrs RP and I split. I was just looking at the replacement yesterday whilst cutting the grass and thinking it might be time to fire it up. Today's local TAF 230/08 9999 FEW030. Maybe the One Touch would be excessive when cooking for one, but the Smokey Joe .......