So recently our lass has decided that the perfect barbecue is subjective (it isn't), and that simply cooking a load of meat over an open fire isn't the be-all end-all to outdoor cuisine. I've tried to convince her that a good barbecue has 4-5 different servings of quality meyt, accompanied by a decent amount of ale, but she's having none of it. Now my reasoning is that unless you're doing something drastically wrong two of the dishes are burgers and sausages. I'll allow for debate as to whether you put Kraft or Dairylea slices on your burger, (Kraft is correct), though since the missus is a bit odd she reckons that Edam is acceptable. It all seems a bit too Heston Blumenthal for my liking. Since there's no point having a barbecue unless you're going to be cooking a proper bit of meat, the third dish is a decent steak. Rump steak, obviously, since there's no point putting the good stuff on when it's just going to taste of charcoal. This leaves you with up to two dishes to round out the meal. Ribs, chicken, either legs or in kebab form, belly pork. Have at it. Our lass has taken this as an invitation to buy salmon fillets. I suppose at the end of the day meat is meat, but it just doesn't seem right. I'd be content with that lot, but again, dearest is a bit unusual so she reckons there's a need to dig up half the garden and serve it in a bowl, along with jars of all kinds of alchemical concoctions that get opened, used once and thrown away in time for the next weekend where it's decent enough to cook outside. This leaves no space to put your beer. Anyway, if anybody has a better way of doing it I'd love to hear it, though if you mention any kind of marinade I'm going to automatically disqualify you.
That BBQing lark is a mans world . Tell thi Mrs to sit back and watch the master at work . If she's a bit particular buy your meat from Aldi but transport said items into a M&S shopping bag .
In my experience. Us blokes do all the meyt. Women do all the salad and setup a nice table of condiments including any pasta dishes etc . A bloke stands with his beer and cooks the meyt. And by enlarge all meyt you have mentioned is a goer. Everyone's happy. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Tell tha lass to gior meddling in mens work! Tha dun't go round telling her how to clean the loo, or iron thi keks! Meyt cooked o'er fire IS men's work! The minute a woman gets involved, it'll be cooked Reyt... taste Reyt...and be served wi green stuff!! That's no way to run a barbeque! tongue-in-cheek for all you PC lot out there! #standardBBSdisclaimer
Steak on the bbq with a few JD chips chucked on the coals is the best meyt l've ever tasted. I'm crackers on't bbq, even do the Sunday meyt on it. Whole new world out there once you discover the different charcoal set ups.
For me, we are doing it all wrong. We should be looking at how Man City do their barbecues. Chateauabriand would be a good starting point but we seem loathe to experiment. It's just a case of 'its allus been burgers at Barnsley and that's the way it'll stay'. But even if we did try summat different, the media team would film it in B&W and newer talent won't want to come and proper BBQ fans will be looking elsewhere. We already lost 7000 fans to Saturday Morning Kitchen. Chelsea have some really talented U19 chefs; we could do worse than to look there. Their lad Solanki, I mean yeah, he was asking for £50k to go on Masterchef but why weren't we in for him? I went to all the Masterchef productions last series, home and away. And I got ticket stubs to Great British Bake Off. Some reet BBQ talent on there, let me tell you. If you didn't go, you shouldn't really come on here offering BBQ related opinions. There are some things we could and should be doing. For me. Regards Thamesworth Hike
BBQ? If you're a pretentious tw@t like me, you get a pizza oven instead of a BBQ. Does pizza in abart 90 seconds - I then find I can concentrate on the drinking aspect of the outside cooking malarkey!
Stinking everybody else's garden up ..no pleasure in sitting outside these days. BBQs should be banned!
