BBQs...love 'em or hate 'em?

[ethandron]

Used to hate them but having gone back to basics and recently bought a proper charcoal one, plus small instruction and recipe book, I have to say I'm converted.
Will be firing it up shortly..gammon, Aberdeen Angus beef burgers and proper sausages, big bowl of salad, bananas with mars bars and hazlenut baileys, plenty of wine and beer, good company, what more could you want on a sunny summer evening??

[Lie-in King]

Hate 'em

[Mick-Talbot]

proper sausages

define proper sausages

I like them but love ... mmmmMM i

[excelsior-1]

love them.
hope yours goes well this evening
(save me a sausage)

[Psybbo]

Somebody close by is having one and the smell is really getting to me

[ethandron]

Proper sausages...made by local butcher without the aid of nasty stuff.

[Georgiesmum]

Ihate them.
Bananas with mars bars???

[ladyalex]

Absolutely hate them.
Food is always either half raw or burnt or a mixture of both.
Weather is always too hot or too chilly.
And then there's the flies.
Sorry, folks, don't see the point when you can eat comfortably indoors.

[marval]

As long as someone else is cooking, they are great.

[Francis Asis]

Love the food but hate eating outside

[Georgiesmum]

I wouldnt part with my george forman grill though. Its ace!

[ethandron]

Ladyalex, used to feel exactly the same which is why we bought a little how to BBQ book, made all the difference.
Slit banana down the length, slice mars bar up and stuff into slit in banana. Add generous glug of hazelnut baileys (or any other tipple of choice). Wrap in foil and put into remains of BBQ while still hot. You will not be disappointed. Optional topping...crushed nuts, maltesers, biscuits.

[EcclesCake]

I quite like a BBQ but when there is usually just two off you and you are true to charcoal it is a lot of effort and a lot of waste too.

If we have friends over and we fire up the BBQ then it will be for a spatchcocked chicken or a butterflied leg of lamb. The whole burger, sausage, drumstick kind of BBQ leaves me cold; too much meat and rarely well cooked.

However giving the weather is about to turn I will not be turning down any invites to a BBQ, so much lost time to catch up on!!!

[Mamyalynne]

Not fond at all, love to cook properly and maybe eat outdoors if pleasant enough but otherwise no - cooked bananas are the devils food.

[ethandron]

Good quality burgers and sausages, cooked properly on the barbie, are really good Eccles. This time last year Id have said exactly the same as you but I am now converted :)

[hammerman]

Love em. Cooked properly with decent food (not Tescos value burgers etc) and with a bit of thought, barbies are as good as anything you'll cook indoors.

Slow cook chicken and baste it with marinade throughout cooking. Cook the burgers (make your own...they're easy) in the flames to get all that fat out, corn on the cob with chilli and lime butter, ribs with sweet sticky sauce.

Having one tomorrow !!!!!

[ethandron]

Ah but many, have you tried them with mars bars and baileys?? You may change your mind...:)

[ethandron]

'mamy' not many..doh!

[ethandron]

Corn on the cob with chilli and lime butter..wow, can I come??

[Mamyalynne]

Feel a bit nauseous at the thought, don't have a sweet tooth and detest Baileys.

[EcclesCake]

I agree that good quality burgers and sausages are good on the BBQ. I just wish that folk would branch out and gain sufficient confidence in their BBQ technique to cook something a bit more interesting.

Perhaps if we had longer summers we could perfect our BBQs.....