Last week in sunny NE Scotland, a record 23 deg, black orb very confused at being dragged out so early in the year, this morning it's got snow on it. Bloody weather!

Mine has lived outside since 1996 and is still fine.

LJ - Like you, I used to have a Weber, then we purchased a Char Broil 10 years ago. It has survived three overseas moves and 2 changes of the regulator on the gas hose (but safely back on US bottles).

Cooked a couple of rather nice corn-fed hormone enriched steaks last night without any problems - and it's survived a winter where temps dropped to -25C.

WP

...and back here at sunny 27 degrees South, the summer has not finished (nor has it finished since re-locating back here since leaving Vegas). The Weber is always on the go (with charcoal), and the VB always cold.....
...aaah how I love semi-retirement back home.

...Hope the UK Wx is Ok for your retirement Beagle....

Glad to read that the educated ones are taking full advantage of 21st century all weather grilling technology.

The manufacturers of the black orb themselves have seen the light and use “Traditional Gas” in their product range.

Still I guess there will remain a small market for the neo-Druid lunatic fringe and their Beltane rites, maypoles and general knuckle scraping. :rolleyes:

A short step from this to the Wicker Man. :=

Wing warping and rotary engines had their followers too but ultimately gave way to superior technology.

Next you'll say Puttees have been done away with? Where's my damn batman? Haven't seen him for years...

Well, if that includes Britt Ekland (as she was then) dancing about the room wearing just a smile, that's fine by me.

Yes, I know it wasn't actually her who writhed against the door in the film...:\

But gas? You might as well just move your kitchen cooker outside....

NO, NO. NO!!!

SWMBO pays close attention to the cleanliness of the kitchen cooker - but considers outdoors cooking to be a "man thing"! So she never looks at the cleanliness of the barbie - which is a good thing!!

My gas weber has at least one decade of accumulated blackness, which is what adds to the flavour of the off'rings. And it spends all winter outdoors, in use, and not closeted at the back of the garage!

If I scrubbed it with bleach/oven cleaner/brillo, it simply would not be the same.

Just like using fresh charcoal every time!

A mature gas barbie is a thing to be cherished.

The thing that jerked me into the modern world was my first trip to Oz ..... 14 years ago. ABSOLUTELY NOBODY USED OTHER THAN GAS.
If it was good enough for rufty tufty inhabitants, surely it must be OK?

Oz BBQ
 

Not when I was there - typically a wood fire with a few stones supporting a sheet of corrugated iron - not even a Weber.

I am THERE, (in OZ) and use the coals in the Weber....:ok: ..not 'flavoured' ones, or hickory chips like my south west US friends...:=
Have used the coals for 35 years.......(not in the same Weber though - I have made the occasional trip to a Bx).

Beags

Yup, but the Beamer-built machine and my Trumpy don't fit with a black orb or any other BBQ. The only other Webber in the garage runs on petrol/air and is substantially more to buy than a black orb :ok:

Nope, charcoal is dead and gas is the King - no more to say about it really. It's a bit like jet vs prop, diesel vs petrol, chip bag vs SD Hat, brown lightweight flying boots vs black flying boots...personal preference :ok: (that said, I'm not at all keen on faggotry)

LJ

What? You mean the shandy-pants geezers that can't cope with a UK winter, and live on 'manly' brews like Fosters?

The kitchen cooker would no longer be such a thing if it was outside.

Just like a well-kept chilled lager is something to be savoured - in a GAY bar.

The above posted last April. Just to say welcome back again and happy BBQ-ing for this year. I'm happy to report that I have managed to survive another twelve months without being forced to attend a barbeque.

Enjoy your summer!

Beags, have you been to Oz recently?

Man drank 50 cans of VB, then drove | Adelaide Now

Are you pathetic heathens STILL prattling on about which device you BOUGHT is best.

huh, you'se are all a bunch of Puffs. Wimp's the lot oh yeh, an yer mother is a trout and your fathers smelt of elderberries or summat......

Build yer own, shandy drinking wooftahs.

I am onto my third custom oil drum, upgrade model 1.3, powered by wood. Gas is for central heating and indoor cooking. Propane is devilry

How charmingly ethnic and third-worldly. Do you hunt dinosaurs with a spiked wooden club as well?

The Beautiful Black Orb is merely your peasant device brought forward a couple of centuries. But I agree about the bottled breath of Satan's backside!

50 cans of VB??!! One, maybe two stubbies is about my limit with chook boob and some veg plus potatoes (you'd like those, cornish-stormrider, they come from the New World) on the grill.

After some time away, missing most of last year's BBQ season, and a recent move from one end of the country to the other, this weekend's weather was just too good to miss. Welcome back Smokey Joe; I really enjoyed cooking al fresco again. (Probably should have had fewer of Arran Breweries Blonde Beer (5%) and more of the H2O though).

And some great aircraft flying over the house as well to keep me entertained; 1 x Jet Provost 5, 1 x Hurricane, a couple of Chipmunks and lots of other light new and vintage aircraft (tentative link to aviation).

Now (hopefully) to get your big brother out again next weekend for the BH!!

Fare thee well, old friend.....
 

Well, after a long and distinguished career, I'm afraid that after 24 years my trusty blackfellow has finally had to be pensioned off.....:(

Despite a change of wheels, leg tip and the spinny propeller cack-extractor jobber, rust finally became terminal:


Not only was the old chap becoming increasingly wobbly on his pins, but air was getting in with the vents closed and my sharkhole was being consumed at an excessive rate. So tomorrow he'll be off to the Holiday Home for Old Webers at the local recycling place for a well-earned retirement.

But on the bright side, he has now handed over the responsibility for barbi' duties to a brash newcomer - a 47cm Weber One-Touch premium:


The ash-catcher is excellent and I'll even forgive it for the nylon handles rather than the old wood ones. As for the luxury of a temperature gauge, whatever next!

Which part of the world are you in now, Roly?

Good to see the Voyager flying into Brize again today whilst I was assembling the sacred black orb - it's certainly been racking up some hours of late. But not with pods fitted........:uhoh:

Best of both worlds attempt number 1.

Yes, Weber is best BUT .............

At 1230 Saturday erindoors wondered aloud if we might have al fresco bacon, eggs, tomato etc, and a glass of something see-through, but we needed to leave the house in less than an hour.

All whilst topping up the melanoma risk.

Not very practicable on a Weber, piece of the proverbial on a gas jobby.

Warm plate, fried bread, the lot.

And no wasted charcoal at the end.

Best of both worlds.