I get what @Steven_Naimsith is saying re: slow cooking on the BBQ but you can also cook your burgers in 15 minutes, steaks etc.
Re: heating it, getting it going, it doesn’t take half as long as people make out.
Get yourself a charcoal chimney, your coals will be hot in 10/15 minutes and you’d be cooking within 25 minutes. It literally only takes 2 minutes to setup the chimney and then transfer the coals in the BBQ.
The lads who are saying it takes them ages to light a charcoal bbq must be a bit simple.
Cooked my dinner on a Weber kettle barbecue last night. Used bags of instant lighting charcoal. It’s a grand way to cook a small amount of food. I have a gas grill then if I’m cooking larger amounts. The charcoal only stays hot enough for a relatively short period to cook through burgers etc, that’s the issue with it. No doubt you get a nicer finish with it though.
The green egg is a fantastic looking piece of kit but you’d be off your head to buy one. I was gifted one about 4 years ago. It’s for a Sabbath bbq, where you stoke it up and leave it be more or less for a big lump of mate or a chicken while you ducking in and out of the rain keeping an eye on coals all day. A mugs game. It does a fantastic job but it’s a pure vanity item. I’ve used it no more than 5 times and haven’t taken it out in 3 years. I’ll hardly use it this year either as it just doesn’t do it for me. I couldn’t be arsed with it as iv no one left I need to impress.
If I had my time again I’d have tried to get it swapped for one of those pig spit yoke. At least that’s a real statement when you have people round you are trying to impress.
I have a milestone birthday later this year and my significant other is looking for gift ideas. I have most things that I want but I wouldn’t mind something like the Big Green Egg and do some smoking on it or a proper sausage maker or pasta maker as I would never buy such a thing for myself but could see myself using them if i had them
You’d pick up a decent enough charcoal bbq for around 100, but it depends on how much you plan on cooking at any one time. I bought a big-ish charcoal bbq last summer, but found it a bit wasteful on charcoal to use if only cooking for 2, so I bought a smaller one for €40 to use on midweek evenings when I’m just throwing on a few things.
Please refer to my patented indirect heat method for steaks, somewhere in this thread.
The point I’m making is that I use my gas BBQ about 40-50 times a year. How often are you lads bbq’ing / grilling / whatever the fuck. It would be ridiculous to do so with a charcoal bbq, too much work.
Looks great, love how you got the organic onions in the shot
I’ve forgotten whether you were based in the US or not mate? That dish would be amazing if not a lot more expensive with Dublin Bay Prawns, those king prawns can be quite rubbery even given the best attention.
