Gas is it?

Oh dear.

Samuraimatt - I refer you to post #18 in this thread.

That "contraption" is the Performer. The DBs.

Yes it has a gas bottle. Yes it's used for setting fire to the coals. No, it isn't used for cooking on.

If that makes me gay, then show me the ladies room, because I won't be changing any time soon (except maybe a Big Green Egg if I win the lottery).

Whatever kind of Weber you have, enjoy it (unless it's a no charcoal one)!

Ah, but you can go 'commando' without the gas bottle.

As I wrote last year on this thread, Mrs. history took upon herself to upgrade my tried and trusted pure charcoal culinary shrine while I was deployed. My friend of many years, nay he even served my father before me, was cast to the pavement and I never got to say goodbye.

She replaced my friend with this contraption but I had to put it together upon my arrival home.

After grieving for my long lost grill (I think I've come to terms with the loss), I put 'this' together, but sans the gas hook up or, as has charmingly been put on this thread, the 'fiddly bits,' and use strictly the blocks of manliness occassionally with exotic chips of wood.

Woman, know thy boundaries!

Yes, the good old black rainmaker has been used a few times this year when my returns to the UK have coincided with decent weather.

I concur, MrB. Lots of sharkhole brickies, plus a little ex-JackD barrel wood pre-wetted to stop it burning away too quickly and to smoke better.

Gas is gay. Lava rocks are transvestite. But I have to admit to a handheld butane igniter (a quid from the garage) rather than useless matches which blow out all the time. Plenty of inflammable gel over the coals, then apply butane flame...fire, smoke and pain!

Lipstick, powder & paint ladies - can you still get HRT for blokes to replace those lost man genes?

I bought up last years discontinued stock of fire starting additive gel stuff to create that momentary 5' high flashover that still makes me feel like a MAN, ladies. Granted, my eyebrows are getting a little long and in need of a trim - WITH FIRE, 'cos I don't own any trimming scissors or moisturiser or any other similar 'bathroom products'.

I aint got no 'mangina' ladies, 'cos GAS is GAY

Ladies and gentlemen (and the rest of you mixed up folk), I would just like to say that this thread has provided the most fun I have had on PPRuNe in a long time.

Nostalgia ...... ain't what it used to be .................

Weber written on anything other than a carburettor is GAY.

I will admit to an old gas-powered cooker in our garden; it's otherwise known as "Wife". :E

Can we just confirm that when we talk about Gas were are not talking about Gas?

Gas of the xxxthane flavor is a blatantly camp way to cook, but i believe Gas in the form of Oxygen from a big black cylinder is a generally accepted as a really Macho way to get them coals glowing white hot when you totally pork up the food time.

Many thanks for clearing this up for me.

ShyTorque -
You appear to be popping your head over the parapet a bit here, with your "non-carburettor Weber is gay" comment. There's getting on for 150 posts here, who all seem to think that a charcoal burning Weber is one of life's gems.
So be it if I'm branded gay. I'd better go and find some "black nylon webbing", with nicely cooked steak in hand!

Roadster, what meat you put in your hand whilst wearing black nylon webbing is your own business. :ooh:

P.S. I'm only really scared of "Wife". ;)

ShyTorque - Did I mention that mine is 22.5 inches and black? :}

Beagle,
Top tip on the butane lighter!! Being a native and resident of Jockistan, I have found lighting my Weber Rainmaker with matches a right royal pain in the arse:( If that little jem from you helps me to fire it up, then that's fine by me. If using a bit of butane makes me gay, well you can call me Gladys - but only at the weekend!!

Wee Gladys McPlop

Well, Gladys, the local garage was giving away lighter type things for candles, fires, barbecues etc. A quid or so and it beats sodding useless 'household' matches which are pansified imitations of good old Swan and Vesta non-safety red boys of days gone by.

Weber carburettors? Designed by mincing snake-hipped Eyties to make a lot of induction noisi, use gallons of fuel, make starting harder and increase bhp by about 0.1% on tatty old Escrots etc. When fuel injection came along, it was bye-bye expensive and pointless twin 40 DCOEs time.... (Ah bugger, I've been outed!).

Ah BEags, I certainly consider myself a 'good old non-safety red boy of days gone by.' Don't make 'em like me any more, hah hah!

Strange wife; I'd be scared of her, too. ;)

Noisi? Some sort of Italian ice cream? And fuel injection? FUEL INJECTION? Isn't that just the same as gas injected BBQs; only fit for hairdressers and their cars. Especially flounced up two seater German armchairs.. . :E

There; that should keep the fire going a bit longer

You can be such a bitch at times!

Anway, the weather chart shows a bit of a ridge forming out to the west. So, perhaps when tomorrow's nasty little low has buggered off, it might be time to fire up the non-gay little black beauty again this weekend.

Oh, a bite on every cast. :p

Can't see why a 19th Century German composer has caused so much ire. :}

Cheers

Whirls

With all the testosterone and willy waving going on in this thread it's hardly a major achievement now is it? ;)

No, but hey, give a non-gay a chance..... ;)