Spec me a Barbecue

Yes genius, how? cold / hot / direct / indirect

Fish / meat / hung / grills

I'm interested in smoking fish especially kippers I'll be back for breakfast.
 
ooooh, smoked fish !!!!

I guess this is how they do it? I love fish and would love to try it.

Smoked for an hour, take out the little parcels of wood chips (in tin foil), then indirect heat for say 30 mins? at 220F?
 
FrenchTart said:
Whoa, slow down a sec. Are you trying to say that gas is better than coal?! :p
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Absolutely, ten times better and anyone who doesn't agree with me is a moron ;)

FrenchTart said:
I agree with humous being awesome. I love the stuff...especially with roasted red pepper /nom.
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One of my favourites too - with roast garlic and/or a little finely chopped chilli for a bit of bite.
 
FrenchTart said:
Weber One Touch Premium el cheapo (£133.45) on HUKD:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/web...-delivered-w-quidco-5-10-voucher-code-1578491
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I saw that too, dammit :(

LOL

ah well.

Anyway, just built my 47cm one. was a little scary getting the legs on...thought I was going to snap something! Luckily it eventually all went in fine. Lovely thing it is too, glad I picked up a Weber now.

As for size, it is perfect size for my needs, there is enough surface area to cook for 4 people, it comes with coal divider rack thing so it will make half/half much easier :)

I plan to test it out tomorrow when a friend comes round but i am sure it'll be great !
 
Raymond Lin said:
I saw that too, dammit :(

LOL

ah well.

Anyway, just built my 47cm one. was a little scary getting the legs on...thought I was going to snap something! Luckily it eventually all went in fine. Lovely thing it is too, glad I picked up a Weber now.

As for size, it is perfect size for my needs, there is enough surface area to cook for 4 people, it comes with coal divider rack thing so it will make half/half much easier :)

I plan to test it out tomorrow when a friend comes round but i am sure it'll be great !
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It's always the way - as soon as you buy something some better offer comes along. I don't think you made a bad choice in just going for it when you did :)

Get some (non-blurry) pictures when you do use it. It'd be interesting to see how the size compares to some of the other BBQs I've seen.

Does the divider rack thing have a hinge so you can add more coals whilst the food stays on the other half of the rack? I've seen that in some videos and it looks extremely useful for a kettle style BBQ.
 
No hinge, just 2 handles so it will be a 2 step process with taking off the rack and then adding the coal. It's no big deal really, a week ago I was using disposable and this is like a world away.
 
Raymond Lin said:
No hinge, just 2 handles so it will be a 2 step process with taking off the rack and then adding the coal. It's no big deal really, a week ago I was using disposable and this is like a world away.
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Yeah. I've not seen the hinged type 'in the wild' but I think they look useful. I'm sure the build quality and sturdiness of the grill is a huge improvement over disposables :)
 
FrenchTart said:
Yeah. I've not seen the hinged type 'in the wild' but I think they look useful. I'm sure the build quality and sturdiness of the grill is a huge improvement over disposables :)
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I believe the hinged grill comes with the premium only, also I read elsewhere that if you order a replacement grill from Weber you get the hinged one. This is for the 57cm model though.

It is dead handy when smoking, for ease of adding charcoal and wood chunks :)
 
A hinge one do sound very useful, well, especially if barbeque for ages or do lots of smoking. I guess I will see how this goes. I see this as a step into the BBQ world, I don't want to spend too much money (which I admit I am always guilty of that, buying more than I need, a big example is I have a Giant Trance X3 mountain bike - take a google how much that is worth :/ and it has only seen grass once.), otherwise it would be a waste, and if I do use it more and more, then I'll just upgrade :)

The 47cm should do 90% of what I want though, direct heat, indrect heat and smoke. I'll poke a smoke thermometre through the vent at the top..perhaps drill a hole ?

EDIT - just checked, you can upgrade the normal gril on the 47cm one to a hinge one too !

http://www.wowbbq.co.uk/products/weber-hinged-cooking-grate-47cm-7433--2070615.html

Problem solved !!!
 
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If you use the right fuel and arrange it in the right way with unlit coals too, it will burn for 5-6 hours easily. You can poke wood chips through the grates if necessary. The hinge IS useful, but you can get away without one IMO
 
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