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#325 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 13, 2017, 06:19:18 am
that will work great with a tray in the middle and hot coals either side

you can load up the area over the tray with food, put the lid on (vent open) and mingle with the audience for a while, then do some direct grilling to finish stuff off

for extra dad credits, put some small potatoes and a quartered onions in the tray - these will be rather nice at the end of the session


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#326 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 13, 2017, 06:52:39 am
set it up like this


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#327 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 13, 2017, 09:47:28 am
Lagers - you should set up a YouTube channel and make some BBQ skills videos. Like your car repair ones that have had loads of views. I recon you could get a cult following...

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#328 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 15, 2017, 06:45:31 am
like bigclivedotcom or Techmoan?

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#329 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 15, 2017, 07:15:17 am
No - like how you make films. Which is clear - unpretentious and funny!

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#330 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 16, 2017, 05:13:07 pm

My wife has told me I'm BBQing for 7 people on Saturday and now I'm bricking it.

how did it go?

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#331 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 16, 2017, 05:45:22 pm

My wife has told me I'm BBQing for 7 people on Saturday and now I'm bricking it.

how did it go?

Be careful Will - answering may invoke an invoice ;)

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#332 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 19, 2017, 03:56:23 pm
Sorry! I was meaning to reply to this!

So the good news is that the food got cooked. Perhaps not perfectly but it didn't get burned to a crisp and nobody got the shits.

There was a lot of food to cook on a not-huge BBQ, so the less drippy stuff had to go on over the charcoal, with the drippy things over the drip trays. This was good in that there weren't really any major flare ups - however, it did mean that the cover had to come off relatively regularly to keep the stuff over the coals moving so as not to get burnt. This meant that the oven effect of having the lid on didn't work quite as well and it took longer than anticipated for the stuff over the drip trays to cook. It also means that it doesn't brown reassuringly which, for a novice with no meat thermometer, was a little unnerving.

Could have got away with putting stuff over the coals later, but food that was ready earlier just got piled up in a foil tray, covered in foil and placed in a warm oven. Meat needs to rest before eating doesn't it...?


So all in all, a success; but more practice needed on my part. Would be really easy to get right if doing food for fewer people.

Thanks for your help, Lagers  :hug:

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#333 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 19, 2017, 08:36:33 pm
nice one Will

train the audience to get used to eating stuff as it is ready, rather than cooking stuff and wrapping it in foil

did you refuel or cook on one burn?

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#334 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 19, 2017, 09:06:49 pm
Cooked in a oner. Eating as you go is good beta I think. Unfortunately this was an ante natal group reunion meet so the audience included three mums with new babies who were taking up most of people's attention.

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#335 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 19, 2017, 09:39:21 pm
it's good to get used to what you can do with your rig and not try to do too much at once

did you supply all the meat, or were you cooking what people brought?

I have an arrangement with my wife's friends' husbands where we pool our cash and buy what I want to cook (with their tastes in mind)

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#336 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
July 19, 2017, 11:16:36 pm
I supplied most stuff but there were some surprise kebabs (which were very nice) which turned up. Need to get some really good quality meat on there at some point.

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#337 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
June 07, 2018, 09:09:11 pm
LagerFest 2018

with the PM system being a distant memory, I thought I would use this thread

barbecue and family friendly garden party at our house on Saturday 30th June from 2pm till late

anyone who knows me through here is welcome - bring family/partners if you like

bring your own drinks and stuff for the barbecue - obviously I will be doing a few things as well

if you have a particular request, let me know

there will be facilities for vegetarian cooking

I have a freezer full of trout, so the hot smoker will be fired up

get in touch as best you can for details etc.

no mugs, no thugs; party people only

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#338 Re: Calling of The Barbecue
May 10, 2020, 09:50:28 pm
Has anyone come across a useful source of target temperatures for meat thermometers?

Mine is great but the preset temperatures don't take account of the temperature gain after removing from the BBQ/oven.

 

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