BBQ Hints and Tips

Sometimes you have a BBQ that is for more than just a few family members. For example we regularly cater for 7+ people and this can bring a few logistical headaches that over the year we have found ways of dealing with.

So, here are our Top 5 Sneaky BBQ Tips and Tricks

1. Bag Everything up to Save Space in Your Fridge

One of the biggest problems with big BBQ’s is fitting everything in the fridge. One of the easiest ways around this is to bag all your prepped BBQ foods up using a food bag. This can include your salads, meat marinading, potato salad etc.

You can then just pop them in their serving dishes when the time comes. Saves the hassle of balancing bowls on bowls in your fridge.

2. Get a job lot of the Weber Silver Drips Trays

These trays are a god send! You can use them for their intended use of collecting the juices from your BBQ’d meat (prevent the coals catching alight again) or you can use them as a serving tray, or even have them on your grill to store cooked foods and keep it all hot. (Amazon £9.00)

3. BBQ Kettle/BBQ Chimney Starter

These are great for those longer BBQ Recipes that need the coals to be topped up. Just place your new charcoal in one of these, light it and then 20 mins later you can pour the coals onto your BBQ. (Amazon £18.00)

4. Oven Glove/BBQ Mitt

Brilliant for quickly moving grills about or when you need to move coals about using a poker or alike. They allow you to get a bit closer to the BBQ… But watch out for the Chuck Norris Shave, i.e. when you get to close to the BBQ and you can feel your weekend stubble burning (Amazon £9.75)

5. Buy Bags of Ice!

You will be amazed at how quickly you go through so much ice at a larger BBQ! Supermarkets sell bags of ice for just £1.00 nowadays and it takes away a common headache!

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BBQ 2011

So here we are again, the start of the BBQ season… well, it could be a few weeks early but judging by the sudden spike in traffic and BBQ recipe related questions coming in, some of you are already firing up your grills. Kudos!

Just a quick post to say “hi” as this is a family site, not a big corporate and as such I am keen to say thanks to everyone who has got in touch over the winter months with BBQ Recipe questions.

I will be trying out some of the recipe ideas sent in over the coming weeks and months.

What did we learn from the 2010 BBQ Season? Well, none of us were very keen on the venison BBQ Recipe that we grilled. The meat flavour was too strong and no amount of marinade was going to save it. I think everyone was in agreement that we won’t be trying that again.

We also discovered a great Chinese Chicken BBQ Recipe marinade that we will be detailing and trying again this year.

Probably the biggest continued BBQ success were the pizza’s. As our and our friends families grow it was important that we found kiddie friendly BBQ recipes and all the family can make the toppings for the BBQ Pizza’s.

What can you expect from iLoveMyBBQ.com this year?

Our neighbours had their first animals on their smallholding last year and have kindly given us a whole pig which has been butchered and I quite fancy cooking some of the belly pork on the BBQ. Should be a fun BBQ recipe.

We have also got to know a South African and they give the Australians a run for their money when it comes to grilling all forms of animal so I am excited to see what new meats we can try.

I am personally hoping that we can try some crocodile this year. We ordered some last year but the shop was a bit unreliable and the goods did not appear. Nightmare.

Anyway, enough from me. Remember though, if you have a fun BBQ Recipe idea or question, or want to share a tip or bonza piece of equipment, just get in touch,

Andy

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Charcoal Chimney Starter

I am quite often asked, “how do I keep my BBQ going” and the answer could not be easier, use a Charcoal Chimney Starter.

The Charcoal Chimney Starter is great when you are cooking something that will need longer on the grill than your charcoal can last for.

When this happens you need to light up some more charcoal in your Charcoal Chimney Starter and once they have reached the white-hot stage and are ready to cook on, then you pour them into your existing BBQ that is beginning to cool.

We found this fantastically affordable Dancook BBQ Chimney Starter at Amazon for just £15.99, the cheapest we have found one online.

Hope this helps you the enxt time you are thinking, “How do I keep my BBQ going”.

Happy grilling people…

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