Before we splash out $300 on one of these does anyone have any opinions / comments? The pictures in the cookery book that come with it look fantastic and a couple of people have told me it tastes good too. I am hoping we can put the sunday dinner on it then go down to the club for a couple of hours, come home and dinner be ready to serve. I also hope we will be able to have something hot in the summer when it is too hot to cook indoors so we end up with a piece of meat off the barbie with salad every day.

But questions that spring to mind are:
*Does it get to be a pain in the backside lighting coals then waiting hours for it to cook?
Does it take too long for a week night?
*What do you cook on there that you wouldn't do on a regular barbie anyway - so how often do you use it?
*Could we cook a joint on our regular 4 burner gas barbie with the hood down instead?
*Is it worth paying $80 for the gas conversion kit as a back up?
Is a compact kettle drum on legs really too big to take camping?

Is there a fire station nearby

Glad you asked.

Thinking of getting one too, but don't know much about them either.

Thought they might be good for picnics and days by the river?

I have a Weber One Touch bbq, had it for years and it's top notch.
If you use the dividers to keep the coals to the side you can do roasts on it.
I suppose you could leave it cooking and head off - might not be good as a fire hazard though. You know how strict they can get about this in the summer....
Waiting for the fire to be ready is part of the deal. Have a couple of beers whilst waiting. It would be a bit of a pain to do in the evening mid-week.
Roast lamb, beef and chicken tastes great off a Weber. You could cook most things on it - tastes much better than gas.
Yoy can easily cook a joint an a gas bbq. Do not put the meat under the gas flames - rather off to one side.
I wouldn't bother with the gas kit - get a gas bbq instead.
It's too big to take camping, unless it's a day trip. There are plenty of affordable specialised camping bbqs available.

Thanks, I'm convinced...now where's my purse?

G'uday Worzel

Best thing since sliced bread............. we must have had ours about 15 years or even longer and we still use it. Don't get a nancy-boy gas conversion.... ..... use the heat beads. The secret is you have to start up the Weber a while before you are ready to use it...... let it heat up good and proper first.

Wait till you taste the turkey come Christmas dinner.......... superb.

Only problem you will have with it once you have learned to drive it......... will be your house guests round for the barby. They will all know how to drive it better than you........... I guarantee that.

Best thing is to do a couple of dummy runs prior to inviting anyone round! They do take a bit of getting used to.......... and a word of warning ....... they do get very, very hot......... so it's important you work out how to operate those air vents?

Cheers Bobcat and everyone else. The missus is going to buy one in the next few days. Now all I need is an apron with either a French maid's outfit on it or a pair of boobs (seriously I really want one)

Just thought I would let you know we had a joint of roast pork on Sunday with jacket spuds and roasted veggies and tonight had roast chicken with sliced lemon up its rear end and both were fantastic. Much more succulent than normal roasts

This weekend I am taking the oven out of the kitchen and filling the hole with a small bar fridge!

So what you cooking this Sunday then

We were arguing about that last night. I wanted beef or lamb to try something different. Maryann wanted pork again. Why? Angling for an invite?

All over to Worzels this weekend then....

Go on then if you're offering
Good luck for the weekend btw

And then round to yours for dessert

All welcome when finished my house renos, getting there though.

It won't be this weekend - too much going on, but soon probably.

I am not worried about the theory test - have been reading the workbook on the train for the last two weeks. But I haven't taken the boat out for a couple of months so a bit nervous about the practical.