Barbecues
Dec 10th 2005, 12:01 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by A dogs life
Are you talking real mans barbecues, or the woosie things these wimps use here?
Real barbecues go like this:
http://www.weber.com/bbq/pub/grill/2...arcoal/cg.aspx
We have one. It takes three hours from start to finish.In that time I get to watch fire - a la caveman, drink beer, watch meat burn, and then wifey makes some salad stuff.
Thats a REAL barbecue
Charcoal, its what a bbq is!
Real barbecues go like this:
http://www.weber.com/bbq/pub/grill/2...arcoal/cg.aspx
We have one. It takes three hours from start to finish.In that time I get to watch fire - a la caveman, drink beer, watch meat burn, and then wifey makes some salad stuff.
Thats a REAL barbecue
Charcoal, its what a bbq is!
Gas BBQ's are good for everyday outside cooking (to either keep the smells out of the house, or to keep the heat out of the house), charcoal ones are good for that special treat
(I get the feeling I have said that before a few times)
Dec 10th 2005, 12:26 pm
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Re: Barbecues
[QUOTE=ROBnCAZ]:
Ya see, this is why blokes do BBQ'ing.....we dont need no temp guage! Once the flames die down - chuck the sossies on!! Simple!
SOSSIES
How very gay, look if you new chums cant get the lingo right you hav,nt got a hope in hell.
You cook SNAGS on the BBQ, ................
mm
Ya see, this is why blokes do BBQ'ing.....we dont need no temp guage! Once the flames die down - chuck the sossies on!! Simple!
SOSSIES
How very gay, look if you new chums cant get the lingo right you hav,nt got a hope in hell.You cook SNAGS on the BBQ, ................
mm
Dec 10th 2005, 12:28 pm
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Re: Barbecues
The most important thing about the BBQs is the output of the gas (MJ) for the side burner somewhere in the region of 16mj is very good and on your hot plate etc around the 80 - 90 mj mark.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
Dec 10th 2005, 2:39 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by Siren & Brian
The most important thing about the BBQs is the output of the gas (MJ) for the side burner somewhere in the region of 16mj is very good and on your hot plate etc around the 80 - 90 mj mark.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
Blah blah blah.
You add charcoal until you can feel the heat from the barbie about 10 feet away. Then you add some more charcoal until its almost impossible to get near the bbq. Then you throw on your meat of choice from a safe distance, let it sear on the outside for about 30seconds each side, then feed it to your friends and family. (stick with the salad yourself of course) 
Dec 10th 2005, 3:17 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by avroncotton
The other thing is blokes cooking on BBQ can't stop playing with the meat. I cook steaks professionally and you cook on one side and then the other and that's it; none of the constant tweeking and turning.
Forget all the tweaking.
Dec 10th 2005, 8:39 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
exactly. Get the BBQ to mid temps - half way up the scale, cook all your meat in 10 mins flat, steak in 4 mins, 2 each side.
Forget all the tweaking.
Forget all the tweaking.
There are barbeques for the balconies on one bedroom flats, those for daily use, those for when friends come over on the weekend, those that are held when you are fighting bushfires or after a football match or sausage sizzles at polling booths or motorway openings or outside Bunnings on Saturday mornings. Barbecues for total fire ban days. Then there are Don's Party barbecues.
The question: "Please recommend a barbecue" is a open ended as "please find me a wife".
Dec 10th 2005, 8:52 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by Banksia
The other two hours and fifty minutes is for secret men's rituals.
There are barbeques for the balconies on one bedroom flats, those for daily use, those for when friends come over on the weekend, those that are held when you are fighting bushfires or after a football match or sausage sizzles at polling booths or motorway openings or outside Bunnings on Saturday mornings. Barbecues for total fire ban days. Then there are Don's Party barbecues.
The question: "Please recommend a barbecue" is a open ended as "please find me a wife".
There are barbeques for the balconies on one bedroom flats, those for daily use, those for when friends come over on the weekend, those that are held when you are fighting bushfires or after a football match or sausage sizzles at polling booths or motorway openings or outside Bunnings on Saturday mornings. Barbecues for total fire ban days. Then there are Don's Party barbecues.
The question: "Please recommend a barbecue" is a open ended as "please find me a wife".
And he would sit and stare at the fire for an hour thinking,
thinking how the hell did four blokes drag a wooly mammoth home.
Or thinking, damn, looks like wooly mammoth on the menu for the next month. No dinosaur burgers.
Anyway, I'll go look for the article
Dec 10th 2005, 9:15 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by A dogs life
Blah blah blah. You add charcoal until you can feel the heat from the barbie about 10 feet away. Then you add some more charcoal until its almost impossible to get near the bbq. Then you throw on your meat of choice from a safe distance, let it sear on the outside for about 30seconds each side, then feed it to your friends and family. (stick with the salad yourself of course)
You add charcoal until you can feel the heat from the barbie about 10 feet away. Then you add some more charcoal until its almost impossible to get near the bbq. Then you throw on your meat of choice from a safe distance, let it sear on the outside for about 30seconds each side, then feed it to your friends and family. (stick with the salad yourself of course) That was helpful
Dec 10th 2005, 9:22 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by Siren & Brian
The most important thing about the BBQs is the output of the gas (MJ) for the side burner somewhere in the region of 16mj is very good and on your hot plate etc around the 80 - 90 mj mark.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
If there is not enough heat output then you wont get that sizzle and your meat will stew.
Nice thick plate is always good. The rest of it is cosmetics.
Dec 10th 2005, 9:25 pm
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Re: Barbecues
How many people call BBQ's "Barbies" ?
Where we all stand around and chat about nothing special, like in the new Barbie Forum ?
Where we all stand around and chat about nothing special, like in the new Barbie Forum ?
Dec 10th 2005, 10:33 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by Siren & Brian
That was helpful
Dec 10th 2005, 10:55 pm
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Re: Barbecues
Hubby wanted a BBQ so much we ended up flying to Perth to buy one, and then air-freighting it back to SEAsia! :scared: It was his birthday & christams present
Anyway, we got ours from "BBQ Galore", a lovely one made of cast-iron, gas obviously, and a 5 burner with hot plate & grill. It also had a hood with a temp gauge, which does come in really handy - we've cooked the Christmas turkey on the barbie for the last two years!
Now one thing I have to ask the ladies of this forum - do you too find that blokes love cooking on the barbie, find it oh-so-easy, but forget that they did f*** all when it came to buying the food from the supermarket, putting the tinnies in the fridge to cool down, the preparation of the burger buns, the salads, cutting the meat up, skewering the meat onto the kebabs.....
Anyway, we got ours from "BBQ Galore", a lovely one made of cast-iron, gas obviously, and a 5 burner with hot plate & grill. It also had a hood with a temp gauge, which does come in really handy - we've cooked the Christmas turkey on the barbie for the last two years!
Now one thing I have to ask the ladies of this forum - do you too find that blokes love cooking on the barbie, find it oh-so-easy, but forget that they did f*** all when it came to buying the food from the supermarket, putting the tinnies in the fridge to cool down, the preparation of the burger buns, the salads, cutting the meat up, skewering the meat onto the kebabs.....
Dec 13th 2005, 5:27 am
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Re: Barbecues
Originally Posted by OriginalSunshine
Hubby wanted a BBQ so much we ended up flying to Perth to buy one, and then air-freighting it back to SEAsia! :scared: It was his birthday & christams present
Anyway, we got ours from "BBQ Galore", a lovely one made of cast-iron, gas obviously, and a 5 burner with hot plate & grill. It also had a hood with a temp gauge, which does come in really handy - we've cooked the Christmas turkey on the barbie for the last two years!
Now one thing I have to ask the ladies of this forum - do you too find that blokes love cooking on the barbie, find it oh-so-easy, but forget that they did f*** all when it came to buying the food from the supermarket, putting the tinnies in the fridge to cool down, the preparation of the burger buns, the salads, cutting the meat up, skewering the meat onto the kebabs.....
Anyway, we got ours from "BBQ Galore", a lovely one made of cast-iron, gas obviously, and a 5 burner with hot plate & grill. It also had a hood with a temp gauge, which does come in really handy - we've cooked the Christmas turkey on the barbie for the last two years!
Now one thing I have to ask the ladies of this forum - do you too find that blokes love cooking on the barbie, find it oh-so-easy, but forget that they did f*** all when it came to buying the food from the supermarket, putting the tinnies in the fridge to cool down, the preparation of the burger buns, the salads, cutting the meat up, skewering the meat onto the kebabs.....
Yeah yeah yeah .......whatever!!!!!
Seriously though, I am in the middle of clearing our garden of dead branches etc.....(over an acre of woodland)...
Have had a fire going for 3 days and just CANNOT drag myself away from it!!!!
There HAS to be something built into us blokes that makes us want to sit 'staring' (and I do) at a fire for hours on end!!
Very soothing..............
The women just dont get it and think I'm barmy,,,,,,,C's ol' man even comes and joins me on occasions with a cigar and a beer!! We just sit there, in silence, and stare (at the fire, not each other)!!!
Dec 15th 2005, 12:25 am
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Re: Barbecues
I do great meat, but what's the best way to clean the grid and hotplate afterwards? I confess that I tend to get up the following morning, scrape the loose stuff up and then run it hard next time to burn off any germs!
Dec 15th 2005, 1:38 am
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Re: Barbecues
On a serious note......only buy the BBQ the size you want to store.
because regardless of all the talk only 10% of you will ever really cook on the thing after 3 years, it will be used 2-3 times a year after that
Then the wife will learn to use the grill, get used to opening a door for the smell and heat!!!!??? excuse while I barf
and the bloke gets well bored....
if I am wrong, please send me the bbq recipes from all blokes still using the outside gas oven after three years in Aus and not using pre bought kebabs or steaks, Thanks.
As for the original poster.....learn to cook on a BBQ.....marinade all your old meat in any left over bottles from the fridge....include tomato sauce, chilli dip, coke, butter, brown sauce, dill pickle, ...etc etc in one bowl overnight. Give it to master chef at the big outside gas oven and let him burn, some ejjeit is bound to ask for the recipe!
Cheers
because regardless of all the talk only 10% of you will ever really cook on the thing after 3 years, it will be used 2-3 times a year after that
Then the wife will learn to use the grill, get used to opening a door for the smell and heat!!!!??? excuse while I barf
and the bloke gets well bored....
if I am wrong, please send me the bbq recipes from all blokes still using the outside gas oven after three years in Aus and not using pre bought kebabs or steaks, Thanks.
As for the original poster.....learn to cook on a BBQ.....marinade all your old meat in any left over bottles from the fridge....include tomato sauce, chilli dip, coke, butter, brown sauce, dill pickle, ...etc etc in one bowl overnight. Give it to master chef at the big outside gas oven and let him burn, some ejjeit is bound to ask for the recipe!
Cheers
