BBQ - Gas or charcoal
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Get a Webber kettle and a load of lumpwood charcoal and one of those speed charcoal lighters.
Others will say gas is best some will say charcoal is best and one will say why bother use an oven.
Gas is quicker yes and more stable but gets filthy with grease and you faf around with ignitions / bottles and pipes. Charcoal takes longer but is more manly.
Others will say gas is best some will say charcoal is best and one will say why bother use an oven.
Gas is quicker yes and more stable but gets filthy with grease and you faf around with ignitions / bottles and pipes. Charcoal takes longer but is more manly.
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Would that be a charcoal chimney? I'm thinking of making one.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbeque-Charcoal-Starter-Chimney-British/dp/B00823ZG2E
One of those, I've never needed one but people rave about them. Can be cooking in 20-30 minutes with lumpwood without one.
One of those, I've never needed one but people rave about them. Can be cooking in 20-30 minutes with lumpwood without one.
Couldn't agree more Macca, I get a strange satisfaction playing with charcoal,wood, something I don't get with gas, it's same with having a open fire.
Must be a throw back to Neanderthal man era, wood & fire, etc.
Ooh thats excellent. Might buy my dad one for fathers day!
Am i right in thinking you stuff everything into that tube, light it, leave it a bit to burn and then pour the burning coal into the BBQ?
Yep but you put the tube on the bbq so once it's all going you just lift it off the coals and they're already in the grill.
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Yeah that's it macca, youtube is coming down with videos on them. Deffo going to make one sometime I'm bored in work 
Yeah that's it macca, youtube is coming down with videos on them. Deffo going to make one sometime I'm bored in work
Make me one to. It can be my prize for when i win the BOTW comp
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Firepit without a doubt
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Personally I used to have both!
A nice compact gas one and a nice big manly charcoal one.
The gas one is used as a 'spur on the moment' bbq as it is so simple to light and gets up to cooking temperature in a matter of minutes. It's very useful for when I get home from work and decide an evening bbq would be good
The charcoal one is for proper bbq days, ones where it's sunny all day and you can invite friends round and make an event of it!
A nice compact gas one and a nice big manly charcoal one.
The gas one is used as a 'spur on the moment' bbq as it is so simple to light and gets up to cooking temperature in a matter of minutes. It's very useful for when I get home from work and decide an evening bbq would be good
The charcoal one is for proper bbq days, ones where it's sunny all day and you can invite friends round and make an event of it!
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would agree with this, we did the same! also you get to satisfy the "inner caveman" with starting a FIRE!!
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