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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 20:38 
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When the weather warms up you’re very, very much welcome to come over for barbecuing funtimes (though bear in mind neither of us has ever barbecued in our lives. I’d actually put a disposable barbecue on tomorrow’s Ocado order just to see what barbecuing is all about…)

Time it right and we might be able to snap off a corn on the cob from the garden and put it straight on the barbecue grill :D

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It is absolutely not about disposable BBQs ;)

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Gotta start somewhere though, right?

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Yeah I'm just being a snob, but it is true that they really don't get hot enough. Matters less from a safety perspective for veg than for meat, but it makes a difference

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When the weather warms up you’re very, very much welcome to come over for barbecuing funtimes (though bear in mind neither of us has ever barbecued in our lives.


In that case, would you like to come here for a bbq?


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I've done plenty of cooking outside with a gas BBQ (which my friends back in the UK tell me is not really proper BBQ at all).... but have no idea about using charcoal or anything like that.

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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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When the weather warms up you’re very, very much welcome to come over for barbecuing funtimes (though bear in mind neither of us has ever barbecued in our lives.


In that case, would you like to come here for a bbq?

OMG, is is that bad? :D

We’d love to when the days are hotter, if you don’t mind having Darwin accompany? He’s very well behaved, though may come armed with a board game.

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Yeah I'm just being a snob, but it is true that they really don't get hot enough. Matters less from a safety perspective for veg than for meat, but it makes a difference

It just seemed to be a low-cost, low space way of trying to see if we enjoy it. Russell is not super hyped about barbecued food, though I love it, but I think the last time we had anything barbecued was at the Beexbecue when I was pregnant, so seven years ago, and honestly the meat free offerings are a completely different thing since then, so I thought we’d try this week. Nothing big, it’s just for the three of us now that the boys are finally both testing negative.

My Ma has a gas barbecue, and she apparently offers us a barbecue every time we visit and I always say no as I can’t see the difference between that and grilling it in the kitchen. I don’t remember this conversation ever happening, but she always says that’s what I say. The far more likely truth is that I do t want to put he to the trouble of cleaning it afterwards, though she told me the other day that the racks go in the dishwasher.

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Mimi wrote:
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When the weather warms up you’re very, very much welcome to come over for barbecuing funtimes (though bear in mind neither of us has ever barbecued in our lives.


In that case, would you like to come here for a bbq?

OMG, is is that bad? :D

We’d love to when the days are hotter, if you don’t mind having Darwin accompany? He’s very well behaved, though may come armed with a board game.


That’s fine as long as he lets me play.

Ours is only a gas bbq, but food does taste better & different to the oven.


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Nothing wrong with sitting around a disposable bbq getting drunk and then picking at some of the stuff that was salvageable.

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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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When the weather warms up you’re very, very much welcome to come over for barbecuing funtimes (though bear in mind neither of us has ever barbecued in our lives.


In that case, would you like to come here for a bbq?

OMG, is is that bad? :D

We’d love to when the days are hotter, if you don’t mind having Darwin accompany? He’s very well behaved, though may come armed with a board game.


That’s fine as long as he lets me play.

Ours is only a gas bbq, but food does taste better & different to the oven.


Then you’re on. And he’ll very much expect you to play, and also listen to all his facts about space, or whatever subject he’s absorbing at the time.

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Nothing wrong with sitting around a disposable bbq getting drunk and then picking at some of the stuff that was salvageable.

Did we have disposable barbecues at the lakes? I remember someone (Rachel?) toasting some giant marshmallows once.

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I bought the disposable barbecue, just to see if we might enjoy a barbecue in the garden, and it works fine. I’m going to suggest that they are great and @Cras is just perhaps not that good at barbecuing if he struggles with them :P

(But seriously, it seemed to work okay for a few veggie burgers and sausages, but we definitely were not cooking anything fancy or quite so likely to poison us).


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The problem with disposables is the small cooking area and limited cooking time. And low heat


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Do ‘permanant’ barbecues use a different type of fuel, or is it just the container material/size that makes a non-disposable one cook for longer/hotter? I think things would have burned on the outside of it was hotter than we had it, though. And it was hot far longer than we needed it so we put it out with water, but it was only for a small group, obviously. I can imagine they’re useless if you have more than about 6-8 people.

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To be honest they tend to be too hot. Because the grill is so close to the coals it's tricky to cook things through before they burn. A proper grill lets you have the hot coals under only part of the grill, so you can move things further away from the direct heat.

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Ah, that makes sense. I did think that the coals were very close to the mesh once it was lit.

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Plus with a proper bbq you can have the lid down so it cooks more evenly like an oven, instead of being like a grill where it’s just on one side.


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I didn’t even know barbecues had lids for cooking. I’ve seen them (in Animal Crossing, haha) but thought they were to keep the rain off when not in use.

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Mimi wrote:
I didn’t even know barbecues had lids for cooking. I’ve seen them (in Animal Crossing, haha) but thought they were to keep the rain off when not in use.


I expect if you are a good bbq cook, and are doing different types of food, there are some situations where you’d want the lid up and others down. For most of what we do, it cooks evenly and well closed.


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Barbecues have come a long way since I was a kid.

I recall my dad being a reluctant BBQ-er due to the hassle and underwhelming results.

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Barbecues have come a long way since I was a kid.

I recall my dad being a reluctant BBQ-er due to the hassle and underwhelming results.

It's exactly this reason I'm a reluctant BBQ-er as for me barbeques when I was a kid was warm food with a layer of black charcoal.

I'm slightly more converted now as all the food this weekend was delicious and heated perfectly so it was actually tasty.

Looking forward to another go now.

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Barbecues have come a long way since I was a kid.

I recall my dad being a reluctant BBQ-er due to the hassle and underwhelming results.

It's exactly this reason I'm a reluctant BBQ-er as for me barbeques when I was a kid was warm food with a layer of black charcoal.


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Amazing! I like the Temple of Doom inspired sausage elevator.


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That’s really impressive. What do the logs on the right do?

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That's amazing Grim... You're very talented!


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That’s really impressive. What do the logs on the right do?

You burn them until the embers fall through the bottom then you push them under the food. It's called a brasero, and it's what separates a Santa Maria grill from an Argentinian grill (which mine is).

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I expect it's not good if you fancy a quick sausage butty over your lunch break?


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I expect it's not good if you fancy a quick sausage butty over your lunch break?

In that case you'd just light the wood in the main bit.

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Can you use it with coals (are they called briquettes?) too, or can it only work with wood?

Either way, looks top notch and super smart when it’s all painted up like that. You need one of those turny poles that you put a big lump of meat on, and then employ a street urchin to crank it round for you.

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Can you use it with coals (are they called briquettes?) too, or can it only work with wood?

Sure, you can use whatever you like, it's just a big metal box.

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You need one of those turny poles that you put a big lump of meat on, and then employ a street urchin to crank it round for you.

Another one?

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Oh :D

I should have guess you’d have one, or, indeed, several.

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I keep toying with the idea of making a steam-powered one.

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Do it! Then get a food license and take it around one of those steam fairs. Folks would love that.

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Well, I'd also need a boiler test, and I'd need public liability insurance, and I'd gain the knowledge that I'd made a bomb powerful enough to kill me and some folk nearby if the safety valves fail...

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Psshhh. Minor points.

Don’t come to me problems with problems, come to me with a suckling pig on a steam powered barbecue spit above some raked log embers with a fancy name.

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Do you work in music, Mr Dave?

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Not, software engineer. The music stuff is just a hobby.


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Yeah, no problem. Even less problem once i get around to selling the piano. (although I rather want another set of hangers on the left for the basses)


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Not, software engineer. The music stuff is just a hobby.

It looks great. And if you’re going to have a hobby you might as well go big, right?

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Well, its 20 or so years of musical acquirement.

But it is a dramatic improvement to how easy it is to use it all. Previously the guitars were rammed in a cupboard and the sheer effort of getting them out basically made me never want to do so. and all the computer stuff was not easily usable either as all the interfaces were on top of the piano, which even without the music stand wouldn't be big enough.

It's much nicer now, and so much easier to work in. I'm rather happy with it.


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Rightly so. It’s amazing how much more likely you are to go to and enjoy your pastimes when everything feels right when you walk into your space, especially if, like your guitars, some were stacked behind others, and you have to move everything out of the way to get to one at the back. It looks great and a perfect solution. I hope it means you spend more time doing what you love.:luv:

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Russell and my ma’s husband put together some raised bed protection today as the foxes are pretty destructive this year. They all worked really hard. I don’t have a photo of the finished beds once all the fittings were on to hold them together, as it was raining and dark, but here’s a little video montage of men at work: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ceb7RnJK ... MyMTA2M2Y=

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Haha! I said that to my Ma yesterday. What with the bed of garlic they’re next to I think we’re safe for a while.

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I fitted a stair gate to keep the pets out the pantry downstairs, and also fixed a dripping bath tap that has been bugging me for ages. It was really simple once I got the right tool and watched a quick how-to video. I don't know why I left it like this for so long (probably 20 months....)

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