The outdoor cooking and BBQ thread

[Doseone]

I've just cooked breakfast on the bbq, I love cooking outdoors and always like getting other peoples hints, tips, tricks, recipes, good websites etc.

I use a Weber Q gas bbq which has to be one of the best things I've ever bought, it must be 8 years old, lives outside even in the winter but always starts first time. I prefer the taste of a charcoal bbq, but can't beat gas for ease of use and the ability to get in from work, turn it on and then start cooking on it by the time I've got changed.

I've also got an outdoor paella burner with a 60cm pan which is great for parties and is coming out later on today. I like to have the bbq going at the same time and cook the meat/ seafood for the paella on the bbq.

My best tip would be get a meat thermometer.

This thread will be better with photos!

 

[Markymark]

Gas BBQ are just cookers outside. Charcoal is the only proper BBQ!

 

[Lullabelle]

Gas BBQ are just cookers outside. Charcoal is the only proper BBQ!

Have to agree there, they take time to warm up but the food tastes so good after absorbing the smoke, steak and lamb work terrifically well

 

[PK99]

I've just cooked breakfast on the bbq, I love cooking outdoors and always like getting other peoples hints, tips, tricks, recipes, good websites etc.

I use a Weber Q gas

I've got

Weber classic plus pizza conversion kit


(Pizza in mine from friday, bbq image is from web)

Weber smokey mountain american style smoker bbq for Low'n'Slow ribs, pork shoulder, brisket, cedar plank salmon



and European Outdoor chef gas bbq, with paella pan

I want... a BIg Green Egg!

 

[postman]

I have never got the BBQ thingy,do them inside,perfect no burnt bits or half cooked.

 

[Profpointy]

Stick a couple of bricks on the ground, pile some charcoal between them, and a shelf from the cooker on top and job's a good 'un

 

[Doseone]

@PK99 Very envious of your smoker - how is it? I would love a big green egg, but they are just too much money.

 

[raleighnut]

Stick a couple of bricks on the ground, pile some charcoal between them, and a shelf from the cooker on top and job's a good 'un

Done that Backpacking/Cycle touring many a time but its now getting rare to find a campsite that allows it. The old Tap and toilet sites are all going upmarket with showers and electric hook-ups becoming the standard.

 

[PK99]

@PK99 Very envious of your smoker - how is it? I would love a big green egg, but they are just too much money.

Fantastic - produces perfect food every time. Takes a bit of getting used to but once the techniques are ingrained it is pretty easy.
I did a big garden party here last summer:
Cedar plank salmon cooked the day before
Two pork shoulders and a whole brisket overnight while i was tucked up in bed.

absolutely fantastic food from cheap cuts (salmon excepted) the essence of BBQ as opposed to grilling.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A guy in Sweden was telling me last week about his BIL who built a fancy BBQ with cement and bricks but used it before it had completely dried out, as soon as it heated up the whole thing exploded.

 

[Gravity Aided]

A guy in Sweden was telling me last week about his BIL who built a fancy BBQ with cement and bricks but used it before it had completely dried out, as soon as it heated up the whole thing exploded.

There's a YouTube moment, if I ever heard of one.

 

[pplpilot]

Pork shoulder cooked low and slow for around 6 hours on the weber with a light smoke from a few lumps of hickory... did one yesterday, put it on in the morning went out for the day got back in time for a few friends to come over for pulled pork lots of coleslaw and salad... yum yum.

 

[numbnuts]

If you haven't got a BBQ put the sausages under the grill and leave them cooking until the smoke alarm goes off, BBQ taste without the hassle.

 

[Over The Hill]

(sexist old git mode)
BBQs just seem to be a way for women to get men to do the cooking.

 

[Gravity Aided]

A preferable arrangement, at times.