wheres the Weber boys??
 

Come on, i look forward to the Weber thread every year, the weather is good so lets hear the banter.:D

The thread is alive and well here.

I no longer have the Weber. I've changed over to fuel injection.

Too hot I guess.

We are too busy outside, catching a panic-tan and porking out.
Nice to be missed though.

That's odd, I had never heard of anyone complaining about the smell of lamb cooking until a couple of weeks ago, and now there's a second reference to it. The smell of lamb roasting (in an oven in our case) gets me drooling in anticipation of the succulent meat to come.

Oh look - a twin Chook Weber!

SHY TORQUE
 

They look like headless frogs !

Regrettably the only place where one can buy Bratwurst in this neck of the woods is a certain LoCo German owned supermarket....

Where I briefly went today, to buy more bratties for tonight's Feast of the Black Orb.

But I'm sure I spotted some lard-ar$ed Untermensch females waddling around the store with little Kylie and little Chlamydia in tow and another fairly imminent for both, who were the spitten image of those 40 DCOE creatures perched on the barbi'!

Those bratties any good? Local German fete guy won't touch them and insists his are imported from the fatherland....

I don't think there is anything to replace a brattie eaten standing at a schnelly, but the L*dl versions are acceptable.

The Morrisons ones would be disgusting if they tasted of anything at all. Never tried the competition though.

As a digression, German packet soups are in a class of their own. When we come back into UK after a Germany excursion, we import substantial numbers of bottles of sekt, and of Asbach. In addition to their superb taste, German soups make excellent packing to cut down the death-rattle of several dozen bottles ...............

Even here in the Fatherland, Bratties from that certain LoCo chain are popular with the locals. The choice from other purveyors of Wurst are varied and one is doing ones best to sample the lot. However, Weisswurst and Sweet mustard is a taste experience that has so for defeated me :yuk:

Regular Bratties do need assistance from echte Mittlescharfer Senf for that genuine Schnelie experience though.

On the subject of varieties of wurst, there is [used to be?] a wicked variety which included cheese. An incautious prod with a fork could project a jet of molten cheese all over the victim. Never offer one to the boss, or the boss's wifey.

That'd be Käsewurst. A danger to anything it comes into contact with. A local supermarket (southern Germany) also offers the things as pigs in blankets, and my daughter can't get enough of 'em.

Fellow Weber afficionados I have some sad news and I am in one hell of a quandary. Read my plight and please offer advice;

I have been planning my upcoming retirement (4.5 years hence) and made the decision to sell everything, buy a whacking great motor home and re-invade Europe. I intend to spend at least 18 months touring before returning to Blighty. I have picked my steed of choice (Burstner Elegance i910) and I am well into the research of the legalities of insurance, residence etc. All this is unimportant because I have noticed a perplexing option on the vehicle which is causing me extreme doubts about continuing the process.

I can have installed an "external gas point" which the salesperson explained was to facilitate the easy and regular BBQing which will inevitably take place. A gas powered BBQ? Laughingly I dropped him with a flurry of blows and left his establishment. However on returning to the house I did some reading and it became increasingly clear that a lot of camp sites are not too keen on proper BBQ'ers using the correct fuel. The correct fuel can be hard to find and is difficult to transport back to the vehicle on a bicycle. Ye Gods!

My options are now:

1. Purchase the option and a suitable BBQ thus accepting I am a turncoat and will probably need to wear a dress and attend a gender reassignment clinic in Thailand. Additionally the public use of said BBQ will admit to Europeans that I am one of them.

2. Ignore the option and maintain my natural English masculine superiority yet exclude myself from many sites.

Please help.

PS The option also includes a set of scatter cushions and 2Kg of pot pourri.

This is indeed a tricky situation for someone intent on becoming a new age gypsy...

First, make sure that the vehicle is kushti and not some cast off from the Third Reich when the external gas point was used in the opposite direction. Perhaps placarded "Achtung! Nur für Zyklon B!". Use of an orifice in other than the maker's intended direction would seem to be common amongst gas users though...:suspect:

The aversion to the only true fuel in some parts of Europe is probably because, as the summer progresses, the sites can become more inflammable than a London tower block as the trees and general bondhu become tinder dry.

There must be some website which lists those sites which allow you to use the only true fuel provided that you also take a couple of red boys, stored pressure water, for use in case of emergency? But if not, then I'm afraid that you'll be stuck with recycled bottled ar$e exhaust and getting in touch with your gay side? Or just say that you're temporarily using your kitchen cooker in the open air?

But you'll probably meet some 'interesting' friends who will admire your scatter cushions, pot pourri and chintz curtains....

I should bite the bullet, concentrate on the product, not the production process.

Find a way to disguise the gas thingy: I suggest a strap-on replica of a big Weber to place between the onlookers and the thingy. Or, the cheapo option is a placard, saying in several relevant languages:

"This may look like a gas BBQ but it is an authentic charcoal-burning Weber in drag".

As a footnote, some 20 years ago [as a long-time Weber afficionado] I went to stay with friends in Australia. Not only did they have an ELECTRIC BBQ, just about all of their neighbours had lecky or gas ......... I never saw a proper BBQ either then or in 4 subsequent holidays.

Have you tried Kaisersenf? Whole grain mustard and best top strength horseradish in proprtions about 4 to 1? We mix our own, being cut off from Monschau where we used to purchase.

Grilling on a Weber heated by that evil substance is still better than most kitchen prepared food - just don't call it BBQ (BBQ is slowly smoked over low heat for several hours - not what you do on a grill).
I'd suggest you get something like a Weber Smokey Joe:
Weber Smokey Joe Portable Charcoal Grill-10020 - The Home Depot
When you're somewhere that they allow proper charcoal grilled food, break it out. Otherwise make do with that propane powered thing - it's still better than frying...

BTW, best brats I ever tasted was when I raced at Road America, Wisconsin many years ago. After we were done racing for the day, they had a brat feast. I was late - I had to address some mechanical issues in preparation for the next day's racing - and they were closing up but I still managed to get one brat. Brat, bun, a touch of good mustard - fantastic! Sadly I have no idea where they sourced their brats so I don't know where to get more.

Now that sounds tasty! One shall have a furkle in the various emporia in the region.