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    Re: Barbecue Season - gas or charcoal?

    Quote Originally Posted by MrRockliffe View Post
    A grill involves cooking under the source of heat
    I've seen a few gas bbqs that appear to operate like that. If you've got one that heats from beneath the food I'm not sure what I'd call that - probably a mess (does the fat npot drip into the burner and clog the holes?)! And regardless of where the heat comes from, I still wouldn't call cooking on gas a bbq - at best you're just cooking (messily )

    So, how have people's summer cooking experiences been? I had a lovely end of summer BBQ a couple of weeks back - new fire pit flaring at one end of the garden, half-drum BBQ going at the other end, and Queen blaring out of a proper set of PA speakers (nothing quite like it for filling a garden with sound). Only thing missing was the two half-kegs of real ale (I contacted our local brewer just a day too late for him to be able to settle me some). That said, due to popular demand it looks distinctly like there'll be an Oktoberfest sausage and beer night happening soon anyway ... must start planning Anyone else had any particularly nice barbeques (or done some outdoor-cooking-on-gas) this summer?

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    Re: Barbecue Season - gas or charcoal?

    Had a nice quiet bbq last night, just the Mrs, myself, wine, beer, and opened a bottle of Jura superstition. Food wise went for pirri pirri chicken and steak, cooked on the weber charcoal bbq, chicken was cooked using indirect heat.
    Still pondering getting a smoker.

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    Re: Barbecue Season - gas or charcoal?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I've seen a few gas bbqs that appear to operate like that. If you've got one that heats from beneath the food I'm not sure what I'd call that - probably a mess (does the fat npot drip into the burner and clog the holes?)! And regardless of where the heat comes from, I still wouldn't call cooking on gas a bbq - at best you're just cooking (messily )
    There's 2 ways of doing that; You can have lava rocks between the gas flame and the grill, so they get hot, the fat drips onto them and does all it's sparking and spitting and such. Or you can have 'Flavorizer Bars (TM)', which perform a similar function but are metal and sit over the burners like a triangular hat, so the fat drips off into a tray of sand under the burners.

    Anyway, I'm being optimistic and going for Sep 20th as my end-of season hurrah. August's very early to stop barbecueing!

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    Re: Barbecue Season - gas or charcoal?

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    ... I'm being optimistic and going for Sep 20th as my end-of season hurrah. August's very early to stop barbecueing!
    Wish me luck, mine will almost certainly be the 27th! Then the BBQ will go back in the shed until New Year's Eve (which a friend of mine suggested a while back and I'm trying to make into a family tradition ).

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    Re: Barbecue Season - gas or charcoal?

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    Anyway, I'm being optimistic and going for Sep 20th as my end-of season hurrah. August's very early to stop barbecueing!
    My season finishes when the guests are no longer willing to sit/stand around outside.
    Typically this happens sometime around mid-November, although a few weekends between December and March are not unheard of... However, I am no longer doing this over a massive firepit these days (have doggies to be careful of), so I suspect I will soon discover what absolute wusses my friends can be!!

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