Gas VS Charcoal BBQs

[SammyAftershave]

That was mine and Stringers last BBQ

 

Before the comet hit.

[General Dryness]

Get a Kamado and never look back,pizza oven, smoker and barbecue, sear steaks and roast meats.

 

http://www.kamadojoe.com/cooking/what-is-a-kamado-grill

 

I want one of these.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

I want one of these.

They are superb, when yer waking up at 4 am and headed out in yer bills to see how the 18 hour cook is going, you know you are hooked. Food is brilliant off it, have to watch for backdraft as well, when yeve had a good few bevvies and forget to burp the bastard before opening.

[Section_31]

If you're using gas you may as well just do it on the stove and bring the food out.

 

Gas barbecues are for middle managers who drink Becks Blue and like to tell you how much their bathroom cost.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Prefer charcoal but ultimately I don't give a shit as long as I'm fed and watered.

[stringvest]

First warm day we've had darn sarf east. Barbie will be out later. Old school Weber charcoal.

[Bellflower]

Judging from the stated alcohol intake by most on here, a barbecue of any sort is the last thing you should be allowed near.

However, if you are an afficianado of red/black cuisine, knock yourself out......... 

[Raymond Duck]

Weber kettles are awesome, can low and slow using the snake method too. Plenty of videos on the inter web.

 

When using charcoal on a kettle, only fill half on one side so you have the ability to cook via indirect heat too. Much more convenient and so much easier. The top tip for BBQing.

[Sputnik1]

[Furmedge]

I bought an all singing, all dancing gas one about 8 years ago for £300. Replaced it with a £50 charcoal one this year and hate myself every day for ever buying a gas one. I spit at my own reflection.

[TheHowieLama]

Gas? Srsly?

 

I now use an Acorn - not sure if you can get them there but they are a reasonably priced kamodo/green egg style.

 

Get ya a Weber One touch and you can get a charcoal fire going pretty quick.

[Mathewbet1]

Gas BBQ is one of the best things I've everbought got and outback one, it has charcoal brickets that does impart that Charcole flavour. So easy to use and clean, oh and all Aussie's have a gas BBq in their garden

[Mathewbet1]

.

[TheHowieLama]

 all Aussie's have a gas BBq in their garden

 

Pretty much says it all here...

[neko]

question for all you hard core charcoal users - how often do you BBQ ?

 

i use my gas grill about 4-5 times a week in the summer. i have smoker boxes for adding all sorts of aromatics and smoke.

 

i just don't feel the need to use charcoal....i'm man enough already.

[neko]

If you're using gas you may as well just do it on the stove and bring the food out. Gas barbecues are for middle managers who drink Becks Blue and like to tell you how much their bathroom cost.

 

you're so seldom wrong about things Mark - but you are here.

 

cooking indoors in the summer ? come now.

 

our bathrooms have both been renovated at some cost however - maybe $20,000

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Mathewbet1, on 06 Jun 2016 - 12:55 AM, said:

 

Gas BBQ is one of the best things I've everbought got and outback one, it has charcoal brickets that does impart that Charcole flavour. So easy to use and clean, oh and all Aussie's have a gas BBq in their garden

 

I have a blue passport, it states that I am an australian citizen, I have a coal barbecue, not an outdoor gas cooker, ergo yer sweeping generalisation is bollocks. However a proportion of australian's do pride themselves on their outdoor gas cookers, and erroneously brag about their barbecue skills, however, cooking a fucking sausage on a gas cooker outdoors does not constitute barbecue. It is to barbecue what fosters, VB, and xxxx are to a good pint - a poor imitation.

neko, on 06 Jun 2016 - 01:34 AM, said:

 

question for all you hard core charcoal users - how often do you BBQ ?

 

i use my gas grill about 4-5 times a week in the summer. i have smoker boxes for adding all sorts of aromatics and smoke.

 

i just don't feel the need to use charcoal....i'm man enough already.

Cooking al fresco and barbecue should be considered 2 separate things, one is about flavour, materials and preparation method, the other revolves around cooking outside. In fact if it was possible to barbecue properly indoors, then I would have a crack, it would be barbecue that was produced, doesn't work that way with gas.

We live in a flat with a decent sized balcony, but it's a pain in the arse sorting out the dining table as it leaves very little room to get around the balcony, we hope to move in the next few months, and get back to cooking more on the barbecue once spring / summer is here, but the main hindrance has been the lack of space rather than anything to do with the barbecue.

[TheHowieLama]

Agreed.

 

If you must have gas (see what I did there)  -  you have a gas grill. There is no such thing as a gas barbecue.

 

For grilling it is great - I also like gas for a rotisserie.

[Rotpeter]

question for all you hard core charcoal users - how often do you BBQ ?

 

i use my gas grill about 4-5 times a week in the summer. i have smoker boxes for adding all sorts of aromatics and smoke.

 

i just don't feel the need to use charcoal....i'm man enough already.

*Shoepiss turns in grave.*

[Evelyn Tentions]

Gas or charcoal, as long as it is a grill and not a plate. A "barbeque plate" is a fucking frying pan and is the reason most Aussie barbies are shite.

[Jennings]

question for all you hard core charcoal users - how often do you BBQ ?

 

i use my gas grill about 4-5 times a week in the summer. i have smoker boxes for adding all sorts of aromatics and smoke.

 

i just don't feel the need to use charcoal....i'm man enough already.

 

I use mine 2-3 times per week. I go to Sainsbury's and manfully kill some sausages and burgers that are just roaming wild in the aisle. Then I butcher the packets wide open and cook the innards over some charcoal. Brutal and definitely a job for a bloke.

 

WTF!!! Smoker boxes? Aromatics? ... GAY!!

[Furmedge]

My ma's fella is a butcher so we get some great meats for free. The BBQ has been used every day since the good weather started, and as the chef I get to get blind drink whilst cooking.

[Oh Buoy]

 

You're only a man if you cook your food in the ground. 

 

Fucking charcoal bbq's. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I ordered myself a gas one today. I can bbq every single night of the summer without the hassle of charcoal. There's just no point in lighting a charcoal bbq for one or two people, when you get home at 7/8pm. And it's the cooking on the open flame that gives most of the bbq flavour, not the charcoal. I was converted when I tried a gas bbq.

 

I can't wait for it to arrive. More excited about this than any other purchase since I got the new house.

[Oh Buoy]

I ordered myself a gas one today. I can bbq every single night of the summer without the hassle of charcoal. There's just no point in lighting a charcoal bbq for one or two people, when you get home at 7/8pm. And it's the cooking on the open flame that gives most of the bbq flavour, not the charcoal. I was converted when I tried a gas bbq.

 

I can't wait for it to arrive. More excited about this than any other purchase since I got the new house.

 

 

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