Ordered us a gas Barby as I can't be asked with charcoal anymore.
Bit of a problem though. You can't get a new gas bottle anywhere for love nor money! Calor are insisting only new bottles can be sold if an old one is returned first.
Anyone else been caught out?
@carly burn Yes I was caught out exactly the same. Spent money and couldn't get Calor gas. However you can buy Flogas. I got a medium sized bottle from Ruxley garden centre. They didn't have big bottle at time. Ironically the saleslady recomended I went elsewhere and got Calor as they were likely to change over for next year and have to be careful not to lose the £20 bottle deposit. Anyway got one and fired up nicely.
they all bloody stink when you live next door to barbecue fanatics, why not use the equipment designed to cook food properly in the kitchen, and let me open the sodding back doors without passing out from fumes just once in a while!!!!!!
It is a good debate. Gas is absolutely more convenient. Charcoal doesn't impart much flavour into the meat, but a layer of soaked wood chips on top can do that very well. Ultimately, done properly, you can get a better effect from charcoal, but it is more hassle and I would assume a little less environmentally friendly. I am a charcoal man though.
What is strange is how us men are drawn to a BBQ whether it be charcoal or gas. Not so much the cooker in the kitchen.
You can use as much science as you like but the taste buds don't lie.
Actually, yes they do. That's exactly what they do.
Your sense of taste can be fooled in all sorts of ways. The colour of a drink, for example, can heavily alter one's perception of its taste. Here's an article that covers the subject. To quote: "The findings of a German study seem to back this up. Its subjects rated wine as tasting 50% sweeter if drunk under red light, rather than under blue or white"Or maybe you could try National Geographic.
The same thing happens with crisps. Try out some crisp flavours without seeing the bags, or better still, get someone to swap some Walkers around and see if you can get the flavours first time.
So if you can't trust your tastebuds, that just leaves... science!
That's right about the crisps. I've done a couple of pub quiz rounds where the questions were blind tasting various flavours. The only ones I ever got right were prawn cocktail and basic potato flavour.
I ended up with 3 BBQs at one point, a European Outdoor Chef gas BBQ, a Weber charcoal Kettle BBQ and a Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker.
I got rid of the Kettle as I just couldn’t get on with it! The smoker was fantastic for cooking ribs. 4 hours in the smoker and they were juicy, fell off the bone and were absolutely delicious. Had to get rid of it because we moved to a flat and didn’t want to smoke out the neighbours! So I’m now left with the gas grill. I’m happy with it, although I do have to admit that we use it for fish and vegetables only as we have given up meat.
In Italy there used to be a restaurant named Kamikase. It was owned by an AC Milan keeper of the 60s who had that nickname. It specialised in BBQ fish and the flavour was incredible. A platter of different BBQ fish and you were as close to heaven as it was possible to be.
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Also where do you get your lumpwood from? Mine always comes from Amazon, but would be great to have a local supplier.
A certain poster will be along in a minute if he thinks something's going for free
@carly burn
Yes I was caught out exactly the same. Spent money and couldn't get Calor gas.
However you can buy Flogas. I got a medium sized bottle from Ruxley garden centre. They didn't have big bottle at time. Ironically the saleslady recomended I went elsewhere and got Calor as they were likely to change over for next year and have to be careful not to lose the £20 bottle deposit.
Anyway got one and fired up nicely.
What is strange is how us men are drawn to a BBQ whether it be charcoal or gas. Not so much the cooker in the kitchen.
I got rid of the Kettle as I just couldn’t get on with it!
The smoker was fantastic for cooking ribs. 4 hours in the smoker and they were juicy, fell off the bone and were absolutely delicious. Had to get rid of it because we moved to a flat and didn’t want to smoke out the neighbours!
So I’m now left with the gas grill. I’m happy with it, although I do have to admit that we use it for fish and vegetables only as we have given up meat.
BBQ'd fish however in a smoker - That's damn fine eating.