The idea is meant to be that the fat/grease from the food being cooked drips onto the lava rock which, having been heated by the gas burners, vapourises and produces smoke which flavours the food.
ANd no, they don't impart any smoky flavour to the meat!
See above for lava rock use. If you were to place 'regular BBQ coals', i.e briquettes of
charcoal, then they'd light, adding rather to the heat output and defesating the whole object of a gas BBQ i.e. ease of turn-on-and-offableness
pubrunner said:
Can anyone recommend a BBQ ?
Just in case we do get a bit of summer.QUOTE]
Yes, a Weber kettle (definitely not gas!) with a
Weber BBQ Chimney Starter to light it, makes getting a charcoal BBQ going easy-peasy. You can cook whole chickens, joints of meat etc on a Weber kettle as well as the usual burgers and sausages, fabulous tool
'Course, if'n you really wanna get serious about yer Q (like me), you build yerself one o' these:
Cheers for the info !
I like your BBQ, but I'm not sure I'd have the skills to make one myself