Beags:
All Webers are somewhat light in the loafers. The fuel is is just an indication of screaming or closet.


Howabout:
About time we stuck it to you bustards...:ok: Quite agree with the SAB dreck. Enough to make a skunk gag. This stuff is nectar though..... Gilroy Natural Beers - Brewery, Restaurant, Bar, Beer Garden,

Any time you're in SA give me a shout and I'll walk ya through the brewery (slowly and with a pint pot in each hand). The brewer and owner is a good mate.

How the country which invented Swan and Castlemaine XXXX (it's spelt that way because 'beer' is a bit challenging to some...:p) can insult SethEfrikan beer....

Amusingly, back before they let Nelson out when our yarp chums were viewed with deep suspicion by the tree-huggy UK lefties, down at RAF Ascension Island O's Mess we quaffed many a cold Lion (RIP) or Castle - went down well with some beast grilled on the mess barbi' whilst looking out for the 'green flash' as the sun went down. KWV Roodi' Red used to slip down a treat, as well.

Always amused me what the Sunday Pinko might have thought of us all helping SA's apartheid economy back then!

OK chaps, chapesses and chap...others (gas users). One thing I think we can all agree upon is that our colonial chums over the pond can make a damn fine idiot-proof barbi' which works even in the tropical climes of a UK Spring.... But as for their beer? It is not said for nothing that Budweiser 'beer' is like making love in a canoe - 'F*****g close to water'.....

Although Sam Adams is OK-ish, I grant you.

Ah, the perils of stereotyping. Budweiser, I grant you, is near the bottom of the pile. Along with Coors and Miller. Mind you, the situation is no different in the UK. If a foreign visitor's first taste of English beer was "Fuller's London Pride", as served on the BA flight inbound, they would have much the same opinion, no doubt. Then pitch into Wetherspoon's on every High Street and get a pint of Foster's (brewed in Leeds). Swiftly followed by something more discerning, having made the initial mistake!

Sam Adams being OK-ish? Which Sam Adams? I believe they make 46 types of beer (some seasonal).

Coca-cola's mantra is "universal availability, uniform quality". Hence I prefer Wobbly, Beck's or Heineken Export. Available the world over, always the same.

The odd Boulevard goes down well, as does a Corona mit lime.

Have you not heard the similie between (receiving!) BJs and beer? No such thing as bad, only some better than others.

There used to be a beer brewed in Washington state that was sold in O Clubs on the West Coast and elsewhere called Olympia. It stated proudly on the can 'It's the Water'. This was a very accurate description!

What A Week End!!!!
 

Fired up the old girl TWICE, on my newly constructed sundeck. Standard fayre on saturday, but did a whole chicken for the first time today. Bloody outstanding.

Briquettes or Lumpwood?
 

Weber Newbie.
Bought my first Weber during the Easter weekend and have now used it twice. Big improvement over my £6.99 Lidl special that I have to replace each year!
Have been using lumpwood because that’s what I have been used to but notice that Weber seem to recommend briquettes.
Any thoughts from you Weber experts?

Go for the briquettes - more consistent and less ash. They also burn hotter.

Actually, anything but gas will do - but briquettes are the easiest to deal with. Follow the Weber instructions precisely and you can't go wrong.

STANDTO, ever tried 'Beer Butt Chicken' on the Weber? Take small can of beer (NOT DRAUGHTFLOW) drink half. Stick half full can up chicken's 'jacksie' and stand the chicken up in the barbie.....cook. Beer boils and steams the chicken in beery fumes....top notch....:ok: You can even get little stands to put the can in and chicken on....

I think that's how Budweiser came to be known as Buttwiper :hmm:


Ruddles County for me please or "Scruttocks Olde Bastarde" if on the apple juice :ok:

I've found great success to be had from using one of these Giant Reversible Grill/ Griddle 46cm - LeCreuset despite it being French.

Excellent for searing bits of cow and other sources of protein.

Solid Rust Twotter
 

It's my enduring desire to visit your country. Never been, but have tasted the beer - some of ours sucks as well; whoever said Fosters was good beer needs to be shot, shambocked, or both.

Congrats on your team; the whole series was a joy to watch and the POMs just don't get it at the moment. For mine, the pinacle of test cricket is the competition between you guys and us, although India have rattled us recently.

That Dale Steyn is a standout - so great, on either side, to see some long overdue venemous swing bowling.

When I retire, I might just take you up on the offer.

A variant of the 'Beerbutt' chicken is 'Winebutt'. Instead of drinking half the tinny you drink all of it then half refill it with white wine before inserting into the chicken.

Delicious.

Perhaps worth adding that this works best with a dead chicken which has first been plucked and dressed?

Looks like a nice day, so my trusty blackfellow will be in use later today!

Try a Turkey.

First time I did a turkey some of the pikeys were back for seconds before I had even had a mouthful.

...did you use one of these ?

How to Deep Fry a Turkey - - FabulousFoods.com

Fire protective clothing an optional extra. Sensible fuel source though :E

Revolting as it sounds, deep fried turkey is actually very good, crispy on the outside and moist inside....cooks quickly too. The fire warning is a good one, the number of decks and houses that are torched out here at Thanksgiving is quite alarming! :uhoh:

BEagle: Follow the Weber instructions precisely and you can't go wrong.

Follow the instructions supplied with a consumer device; surely the most outrageous suggestion on pprune of all time. After you sensibly advised that any greenery at a barbecue was off limits to all real men as well. You'll find yourself buying a gas model next :}.

Calling all gassers - 'bout time you had an input.

Unashamedly - J

In Llanddewi Brefi, Daffyd came out as the only gas user in the village:


"I'm with Jindabyne - gas is ever so lovely....... Barbi' round the back at my place, isn't it. You'll be welcome to come to my back door....any time."

Having just fallen of my chair in hysterics words now fail me.

It's a Gas
 

Clean & convenient. Wouldn't have bothered to start a 'real' fire for a couple of Jalapeno Burgers, not worth the hastle. But with the gas, it's just sooo easy.

If you only want to cook a small meal, put the lid back on your Weber as soon as you've finished searing the beast and shut the air vent. The fire will then self-extinguish without wasting the briquettes....

I suppose jalapeño is probably a convenient excuse a gas user can proffer for having a sore bottom?

I am beginning to think that if you have been circumcised you cannot join this thread.......................................:)

How about some photos of you, your Weber and a can of that squeezed Weasle that the Yarpies call beer?

Poncing around with gas
 

Gas, Gas?

Gas Webers are the equivalent of one-day cricket and would not be allowed in my household. Ponce around in pyjamas all you like young Sirs, but when it comes to real beef, pork and lamb; not to mention roast spuds, your product is but a pale imitation of the Test Cricket of barbeque cullinary endeavours.

A little extra effort is required, plus a a level of strategic planning. But this is far preferable to the inferior product borne of the need for instant gratification. The non-gas Weber is one that allows both process and outcome to be savoured. In short, who the hell remembers who won the last one-day series anywhere??

Now let me see, Test cricket,; isn't that the one that takes the whole of the first day to get warmed up, needs up to 5 days to any sort of result, normally produces a shedload of very disappointing ducks; and the only one worth watching is called the Ashes during which we usually get thoroughly basted. Right?

Only way to go -

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...etBarbecue.jpg

For 6z3
 

6Z3,

Ducks on a non-gas Webber are rarely disappointing. There is some degree of finesse involved, but once again it gets down to strategic thought. A well thought out duck is immensly rewarding and, unfortunately, in the shorter and gassed-up version of the game, it's more down to good luck than good management dear boy.

As regards your comment about 'warming up,' I thoroughly agree; with qualification. Time is consumed but, as I said before, process and outcome are both to be savoured; as opposed to the sub-optimal result that comes with gas. Someone once said that 'life is not an end, it's a journey.' A non-gas Webber is testament to that thought:- one-day gas is just an end in itself, whereas non-gas is a life-enhancing experience.

As for the Ashes, I think you will find that when it comes to the ancillary circus that amuses those pyjama-wearing gas-users with limited attention spans, there may be a level of short-term instant gratification - but no one will remember what it tasted like, let alone the cut of meat. When it gets down to real cuisine, they are unlikely to have any real impact in the cordon-bleu stakes that involve non-gas and flannels.

Jindabyne, the driver / tongmaster of that fag chariot does bear more than a passing resemblance to 'Biker' from 'The Village People'.....:ooh:

I think we should be told......

No,no - that's foldingwings's front-seater (nothing to do with back/front persuasion I hasten to add). Please let's not get into the pleasures of back-burners, blow-outs or handy gas-rings - suffice to tell you that I once had a big, black Weber - and it was a bummer. With my trusty Outback (there we go again), I'm on the job instantly, my lady is always well-satisfied, and there's little after-mess - and I can repeat the performance at will. And as for basting, and browning my meat --- it's all achieved without the need for that big, black, soot-filled opening.

"need for that big, black, soot-filled opening" - now then, children are watching. Be warned :=


....without any semblance of a nose or tail wheel I'm not sure which way it goes ? :confused:
Although I do detect a chock on its main wheel - is it rooted to the spot ?:ooh:

Perhaps it's the hermaphrodyte Weber ? :eek:

Where's it's Radula then ?

While playing met-monkey on a certain remote Antarctic base one drove the oenophile radio tech slightly gaga. The cause being the silly bugger didn't bring enough plonk and finding one mixing '81 Roodeberg with Coke to make Catembes was too much for the delicate soul. Probably had a Weber at home too, the poofy barsteward. True believers will never be moved from the trusty half oil drum and expanded steel mesh.

Howabout: Any time, mate. I see you're from the only part of Oz worth inhabiting.:ok: As an aficionado of the Darwin Stubbie you'll really enjoy getting ratted at Gil's.

Invitation stands for anyone on the board who finds themselves at a loose end in JNB. If I'm in SA I'm pretty much on leave and should have no prob making a dent in the monthly production at the brewery.:ok:

Confession time
 

Forgive me, fellow brothers of Weber. For I fear I may have sinned. Perhaps even grievously so.

For tonight, whilst preparing ritual sacrifice unto the black sphere which is the true focus of our divinity, I succumbed to the temptation of Beelzebub. For I prepared a sacrifice which included substance other than the flesh of the beasts of the field, fowls of the air or fish of the deep.

Vegetables. Verily, I confess that, in addition to free range chicken breast from the emporium of Waitrose, I did offer unto Weber that which true believers should normally scorn. To wit, baby corn, sugar snap peas and potatoes with garlic and butter.

Is the start of a diabolical descent into the abyss of darkness? Which, if unchecked, might ultimately lead to the true horrors and awfulness of the bottled breath of Satan’s backside.........gas :eek:?

I seek your comfort and solace at this difficult time of fear and self-loathing.....

BEagle,

Not only have you committed a cardinal sin today, but you have sinned before in this thread with your outrageous suggestion, at post 328, that a chap might "follow the instructions" of a household item, a Weber no less :{.

I fear that with these flagrant breaches of man laws you may now be beyond absolution :}.

LE

It's both impressive to see and sad to know when someone has just given up societal pressure and doesn't care anymore...

Hebrews 10:6 "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast ..."

Habakkuk 2:10 "....devised a shameful thing for your house.
Yet that is not the worst; Thou hast sinned against thine own soul, hast endangered it. :=



Penance must be appropriate to the sin my son. Drink five bloody mary's and a hello dolly flagellating thyself with a radish :ooh:

Beags, there may have been some hope if you'd at least had some nyama on the braai, but chicken? Chicken is considered a vegetable in these parts. Even potatoes are brighter than chickens and have a place on the grill alongside the lamb chops, but chicken...?


The Empire is lost...:(

The Lord Weber did observe my sin and hath frowned upon it.

For today it pisseth down with rain.

Five Bloody Marys you say? But WTF is a 'Hello Dolly'?

Blasphemer, repent thou must sinner, repent. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth must thou endure for the lord god of burnt offerings is a thirsty diety.......Google be they friend and guiding light

:: Mattoni Grand Drink ...A PLANET OF CONTEMPORARY COCKTAILS ::

It's enough to make you puke :yuk: :yuk: - but then it is penance :rolleyes:

OK, OK - the Bloody Marys and radish flagellation I can take...

But the vileness of a Hello Dolly :yuk:? 90% of which is non-alcoholic? Is the 'Williams' in the recipe really German Williams pear brandy? Or something from the colonies?

It soundeth horrific. For it is clearly something favoured by those of the gas persuasion...:ooh:

They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Romans 13:2

Trust in the Lord Weber with all your heart, on your own intelligence rely not := (Proverbs 3:5)

Now make that two Hello Dolly's for your sin :eek: :yuk:

Brilliant thread
 

Isn't it great to have a thread where we can have this sort of banter? I'd never have believed it when I first logged in.

That doesn't mean that you bunch of weasliy, limp-wristed, poor excuses for bbq mechanics can ever equate gas for real cooking.

Kluge is worrying me though. I think he may be quoting scripture a little too much. It's been proven that such an affliction can lead to what has been euphemistically called 'gas fixation.' It's defined as a propensity to return to the Old Testament as a an excuse for delivering sub-standard gas offerings when a little extra effort, through sacred, scripture-approved non-gas, would have gained the blessing of the prophets.

As for Solid Rust Twotter, sorry buddy; yes it was my home, and I lived there three times over 30 years - a couple of times quite extended. Sadly, employment dictated a move(s). So, while NT originally designated where I lived it now, sadly, represents 'not there'. One day I will get back. Too many years and too many fond memories.

Finally, and in relation to Twotter's comments on the Darwin Stubie, who's still around that knows that the actual, original, 1960s Darwin Stubbie was VB (sh@t beer, but that's the case).

Tinpis; anyone??