Disposable BBQs

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Anyone used those disposable bbq's before?
How much are they usually and where can I buy them from?
Are they any good, does it even cook the food properly? And do you just put coal in the tray and light it up? lol I've never started my own bbq before, so I think I should start on a small disposable one first.... :p
 
About £1-£3 each. They last for about 15-20mins, already come with the coal in them and everything you need to cook on.

Imho they are NO substitute for a real BBQ, even a cheap £15-20 one is a lot better than the disposable ones. I found they didn't stay at a decent cooking tempurature for long enough so you end up useing a few if theres a lot of people.

Edit: Places like B&Q, Do It alls etc sell them as well as a few £1 cheap shops.
 
ASDA actually do a reasonably decent small BBQ for £7.98 which will far exceed the disposables in both esae of use and also you can re-use it.

Especially if you're BBQing for the first time, the last thing you want is a disposable one, it's difficult to keep the food on, difficult to cook the food properly as you can't vary the cooking height and generally a PITA for anything other than cheap sausages.
 
Their ok for things like picknicks or just the one off BBQ.

Otherwise just buy a cheap one as Rich_L said.

With the flood of cheap Indian/Chinese steel the cost has plummeted.
 
Disposables are brilliant when it comes to camping but the best way to go is to buy a small stand up BBQ for about a tenner and get those self light bags of coal. You save money in the long run and the BBQ can be used for a little campfire afterwards without burning the lawn.

If you do get a disposable, get two just in case. Hardly expensive


Never, ever get gas unless you are powering on big super BBQ like I have, and we only ever use that for big parties.
 
Rich_L said:
Bricks, metal sheet, grill. With that you can basically make a BBQ, the metal sheet isn't essential either, just helps make it less messy :)
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as in bricks to build it up, metal sheet for charcol, thenmore bricks then grill.

thats the sorta thing i was thinking about t'otherday and theres some houses being built down the road = free bricks
 
Dreadi said:
as in bricks to build it up, metal sheet for charcol, thenmore bricks then grill.

thats the sorta thing i was thinking about t'otherday and theres some houses being built down the road = free bricks
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Aye spot on :)

Alternatively you could go gheeeettooooo and cut a metal barrel in half and prop that up on some bricks with a grill over the top :D
 
hahaha that would be ace, ill see if i can nick anything from work.

theres laods of industrial paint tins that would be good for this, but they all have paint remains inside :rolleyes:
 
Clerkin said:
dont sit disposable bbq's on your lawn, i learnt this the hard way :(
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Better than that your mate starting a barbeque on his wooden decked balcony, lovely charring there ;)

The disposables are ok as long as you are relatively quick and know roughly what you are doing but a proper barbeque is much better and allows a wider variety of food to be prepared.
 
At some mad crazy party action a couple of years back some goon decided empty the remaining contents of a bottle of white spirit onto a bbq. Totally destroyed it, burned right through. Cue us scrambling around for a day trying to rebuild a BBQ, and repaint the back of his garage that had become scorced in the inferno :o

Happy days.
 
Otacon said:
At some mad crazy party action a couple of years back some goon decided empty the remaining contents of a bottle of white spirit onto a bbq. Totally destroyed it, burned right through. Cue us scrambling around for a day trying to rebuild a BBQ, and repaint the back of his garage that had become scorced in the inferno :o

Happy days.
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like your sausages well done then??
 
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