Outdoor cooking - Barbecues, Barbecue, BBQs, BBQ, Smokers, Grills. And Ribs.

Low and slow, yeah. I can do it in the weber but it's a bit of a pain to keep and eye on. I'll have a looks at the masterbuilt. Is it pretty much set and forget?

Yep, no different to a pellet grill in that sense, light it, set the temp and leave it to cook, I have done 24 hour cooks on it, all I have had to do is refill the hopper once during the cook.

There is also a basic app, so you can monitor and change temps from your phone as well.

Does anyone with an Inkbird thermometer know how to add it back to the phone app when it disappears. Seems to be no option on the device to turn bluetooth on/off, pair, etc It used to appear but has now disappeared

This one:

what’s the forum approved bbq for predominantly veggie/pesce not-heavy-BBQers who live in a rainy country with limited chances to cook outside ? one of the smaller weber kettles ?

Look at the Weber Q series. Small, gas powered, perfect for veggies and fish, will handle the occasional grilling of steak/chicken. Can easily be modified to run off the larger gas canisters.

Anything charcoal powered seems a bit overkill and a bit of a faff unless you often throw large parties.

My veggie OH has one that is almost 15 years old and is very infrequently used. Still fires up on the first click.

Just to disagree with this... We have a small Weber charcoal kettle and a q series gas. The q series is awful and I would never bother with it unless I had to.

Meat news, some kind of Meater X Sainsbury's collab going on with brisket point end and dino size short ribs in my local and a discount code for Meater on the packaging

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Good news for brisket sourcing!

Had a bbq for my wife's birthday, smoked a lamb shoulder overnight then smashed out a load of merguez whilst the lamb was resting.

Last few cooks have all been overnight and I'm never doing it any other way again, it's just so much better.

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merguez

Sausages of the Gods.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/typical-summer-bbq-releases-more-greenhouse-gas-emissions-80-mile-car-journey

I lit the fire pit in the garden last night, because it's chilly and it's fun to sit around a flame and look up at the stars of an evening... However, after a while, I did find myself worrying about my little pyre's emissions...

Piri-piri chicken tenderloins tonight, I'm doing them under the grill for a (climate) change... 😇

Interesting article - majority of it seems to be the meat, not the charcoal,though? Not to say that doesn’t matter - but worth understanding what can reduce them most

Piri-piri was delicious, then I built another firepit... Did I just kill the world?

Reading the above I’ve done guilt but insufficient to put me off this morning’s effort.

I had intended to roast the chicken but temperature seemed to stay unwaveringly at 150 so persuaded myself that it was a deliberate attempt to get a smoking v roasting collab.

I had a go at seasoning under the skin - garlic powder, salt, chilli flakes, chipotle and lime - and then wanted some salt, chilli flakes, chipotle and lime on the skin with a good drizzle of olive oil to finish. Left it going for a completely random 90 minutes when my wife came out with some sage and rosemary paste she’d got left over from something else - figured ‘why not?’ and basted for a final 30 minutes (again, random).

The result was really good, moist flesh that was salty and spicy and similar with the skin, whole thing was devoured in minutes.

Would definitely do again if only I knew what I actually did

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Any leads on cheap wire racks with small squares for grilling veggies/fish etc (Hibachi style) that aren’t nearly £20 a pop from an artisanal Japanese supplier?

Heavy duty chicken wire? Need some snips and a file but should be pretty easy to make something then heat it and clean it a few times to make sure there's nothing you don't want to ingest?
e.g.
https://www.sure-green.com/small-wire-mesh-sheets.html
https://www.twpinc.com/wire-mesh-by-project/food-drying

This sort of thing?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-BBQ-Grilling-Basket-Meat-Burger-Fish-Holder-Rack-Rectangle-Folding-Tool-/233964174234

I think Wilko's were selling them. Or lots of Turkish shops will sell them if you're near Green Lanes or similar.

I entered a BBQ competition this weekend at Smoke and Fire Festival in Colchester. I'm nowhere near the level of some of the other competitors (or even of some of the cooks I've seen on here) but had a load of fun. My team came in 10th out of 15 - I'm happy with that considering we came dead last at the last one we did. Here's pics of some of our entries.

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Congrats on the improvement - I know a few people who enter these things and the competition is intense.

Also, confirming I would smash all of those dishes so 1st place from me.

Those all look amazing. What's on the quail?

They all look amazing, nice one!

Though it's 09:22am and now i'm starving for BBQ food ...

The quails are stuffed with mac n cheese and sauced with this stuff after we left our home made sauce in the fridge at home.

There's a great community around these competitions, even with the fierce competition (there was a £4k top prize) other teams were willing to help us out with any kit or ingredients we forgot.

The tacos in the last pic got us 4th place in the beef round, our best score which I was over the moon about.

email me one (1) quail pls