by Stuart
16. April 2010 05:17
I don’t think I got the BBQ out at all last year yet on Sunday everything seemed to fall into place. Went for a bide ride in the afternoon and bought some new brake pads and also some bar ends for the bike, fitted those and then got out the barbie.
Broke up some sticks that I found in my garden, shoved a firelighter under them, lit and poured on charcoal. Lit and opened beer.
Total time to light - ~5 minutes including opening beer. True, you then have to wait an hour but that’s time when you can be busy “lighting the barbie” (drinking your beer) while someone else prepares the food.
Australians are real men and use gas barbies a lot – but there’s are not the same as ours. They are more like griddles (see Wikipedia) whereas we use grilling.
So why would you use gas?
My barbie cost about £20 9 years ago. Gas ones seem to cost between £100 and £400 and require gas. With this I get the actual taste of a BBQ. If you don’t want the taste of the BBQ – put your food in the grill.