Planning a Barbie? ~ Your Hints and Tips

[TimberFloorAu]

May try this tonite on the Weber , cheers Gerry.

We were camping this weekend with a bunch of mates, this is our Barbie setup

Note the place is called Lake Cressbrook , QLD a state owned park, circa some 10,000 hectares. Cost $6.90 per night per family .

[UKBusinessLive]

Looks Great there Steve

Another few tips for you here, Cleaning your Barbie, different people have different ways on how to clean their barbie, here are a few from the experts..



Many barbecuers argue that the grill should be cleaned with soap and water just twice a year - at the beginning and end of the season. In between uses, the best way to clean the grill, according to most the trick is to scrape it with a wire brush and then spray on a bit of olive oil and wipe down with a tissue.

This is not just down to laziness - this method allows fats to build up on the bars, which means your food is less likely to stick to them.

However, like all things barbecued, this method is not agreed upon by everyone - especially by one Aldo Zilli.

'Absolute rubbish!'

the Italian-born chef and owner of London restaurant Zilli Fish says, disgusted by the thought of olive oil on his barbecue bars. He grew up as a child in a house without gas, where most of the cooking was done on a barbecue.

'The barbecue must always be sparkling clean before you use it,'

Zilli says. 'Food safety is part of the reason, but taste also comes into the equation. Who would want to eat fish and sausages that had been cooked in the same pan? It's the same thing.

'You must wash the grill every time with soap and water before you start and then rub sea salt and lemon juice onto the bars.'

If you do decide to go the lazy route - relying on heat rather than effort to sterilise the cooking surface each time - then the best way to clean the grill at the end of the year is to fill a large dustbin

with water, drop in a dose of washing powder and leave the grill totally submerged overnight. Rinse it under a hose in the morning. Oh, and don't tell your Italian friends.

[TimberFloorAu]

We use 2 different types of Barbie, a flat hot plate and a griddle.

The hotplate we clean whilst heat is off but the plate is still warm.
Sprinkle table salt over entire area, and use scraper to clean entire hot plate, then spray with Canola oil , which is aerosol based ( hence the burners must be off )

To clean the griddle, mine is ceramic coated griddle, we use a wire brush and soap and water, and a scourer pad.

Ste

[Loget]

Haha looks good man, try cutting the chicken up into fairly large sizes and put them on the grill'

[Dilmah]

Originally Posted by harmor19

That's grilling, not barbeque.

Uh... ok...

[Reycer]

what's with the little "dab" of BBQ sauce in the middle of the hamburgers? lol Here's what a real BBQ hamburger should look like



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Originally Posted by harmor19

That's grilling, not barbeque.

Nope, down here in the south, that's BBQ'n...lol Down here we don't put things in a pan and let it soak in sauce, we grill it baby!

now, excuse me while go a piece of straw to hand out the side of my mouth...lol

[TheLastSuperman]

what are you all missing eh???



Lots of OFF spray, tiki torches w/ citronella oil evenly spaced around the back yard and a pop-up tent w/ mesh sides to put the food under

My son is allergic to insect bites, not too bad but they swell up awful and besides people keep forgetting about West Nile just like the Swine Flu here in the US :erm: NO!