The outdoor cooking and BBQ thread

[JoeyB]

Just had a BBQ at work for lunch, I had 6 burgers...and a pint. Followed by a kickabout on the rink.

 

[Doseone]

Best BBQ I ever had was a Braai in the Transvaal. Basically the embers from a huge wood fire with a large griddle where you adjust the height with a pulley over the top. Warthog steaks and foot long Boerewors. Superb.

 

[AndyRM]

Just had a BBQ at work for lunch, I had 6 burgers...and a pint. Followed by a kickabout on the rink.

You should know that this post sent me into a jealous rage and I was completely incapable of working the final hour of my day. Fortunately I was able to listen to the cricket which has sorted me out.

Please keep tales of your awesome lunch breaks to yourself in future.

 

[PK99]

Best BBQ I ever had was a Braai in the Transvaal. Basically the embers from a huge wood fire with a large griddle where you adjust the height with a pulley over the top. Warthog steaks and foot long Boerewors. Superb.

I've had some awesome Braais in Zimbabwe and Namibia. There is just something about cooking mountains of meat over an open fire under an African sky. Stood around the Braai, bottles of Castle.......

Maybe the most memorable was on the banks of the Zambezi at Mana Pools - isolated campsite, just the two of us, a guide and a cook. Hippo snorting in the river yards away, lion roaring in the distance.... Then in the morning seeing the big 5 before breakfast....

 

[stephec]

Just had a BBQ at work for lunch, I had 6 burgers...and a pint. Followed by a kickabout on the rink.

You've got that the wrong way round, a burger and six pints sounds much better.

 

[JoeyB]

You've got that the wrong way round, a burger and six pints sounds much better.

I needed to do SOME work this afternoon haha. The benefits of sharing an office with an indoor roller hockey rink with onsite bar (and now a BBQ it would seem).

 

[Profpointy]

By the way, here a good video on lighting a barbeque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sab2Ltm1WcM

 

[JoeyB]

I won't be needing that video

 

[AndyRM]

I won't be needing that video

It's false advertising. Bugger all remained lit, though the flames were impressive. A common issue with the novice barbequeist.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Why would anyone leave a perfectly good kitchen to cook outside?

Walking down the street where I work one day last summer, I turned the corner and almost choked on this cloud of thick dense smoke wafting from the car park on the other side of the road and my initial thought was that someone's car had caught fire. Wrong, the guy in the camper van was having a BBQ and choking everyone within a 200 yard radius so he could have sausages which were burnt on the outside and raw in the middle.

I would leave a perfectly good kitchen to cook outside so I don't heat up the whole house. Many American Farms had a summer kitchen, a little outbuilding, just for cooking in summer.
Also, Mrs GA likes Bar-B-Que. Sausages should be done indirectly from the heat source, but I use liquid propane over charcoal, and just keep sausages on the side away from the flame.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

You should know that this post sent me into a jealous rage and I was completely incapable of working the final hour of my day. Fortunately I was able to listen to the cricket which has sorted me out.

Please keep tales of your awesome lunch breaks to yourself in future.

The BBQ sounded good I'm just not sure about a kick in the rink.

 

[Crackle]

I still need to clean mine from the last time I used it, this time last year.

 

[JoeyB]

All this talk of BBQs, I might flash one up at lunch... the smell that wafts into the office is unbeatable

 

[Markymark]

I still need to clean mine from the last time I used it, this time last year.

Man advice.

You don't need to clean bbqs as the heat kills the bacteria. Just use a wire brush to quickly scrape off the worst of it.

 

[AndyRM]

Woman buys the shopping
Woman invites the friends around
Woman make the salads
Woman lays the tables
Woman gets everybody drinks
Woman unpacks the meat
Woman makes marinade
Woman massages the marinade into the meat and remembers that this needs to be done at least eight hours before meat is cooked
Man cooks the BBQ
Man takes all the credit
Woman serves the guest
Woman clears the tables
Woman washes up

I know that this is (hopefully) just a joke, but I'd a) get an earful and b) consider myself a failure at hosting BBQs if I tried to get away with that. Plus all the guests would probably be dead or have food poisoning as my wife's a vegan and doesn't have a clue about cooking meat!