
Barbecue Grills
Barbecue grills explained
There's
nothing like the taste and smell of food grilled over hot coals. The
varied selection of Barbecue grills will ensure you find something to
suit your garden and your pocket.
The
most common is the basic Charcoal BBQ Grill, which comes in a
variety of shapes and sizes.
Barbecue
Grills and Smokers
There
are electric barbecue grills and smokers, charcoal BBQ smokers, or wood
burning
water barbeque smokers. They come in all shapes and sizes and can be
used for private use or professionally.
Many
smokers use water to regulate temperature instead of dampers. Any time
you use dampers to control temperature on barbecue smokers you can get
too much smoke on the meat and temperature is hard to control. For that
reason, water smokers seem to becoming more popular because many are
less expensive than their Wood Smoker counterparts and require less
time maintaining the cooking temperatures.
Manufacturers
and suppliers of barbecue grills include the Big Green Egg, Bradley
smokers, Brinkmann,
Cobb original bbq or the premier Cobb bbq, Hibachi, Kamado, Klose, Landmann, Weber,
Ducane,
Outback, Outdoor Chef,
Primo, Cinders,
Broil
King, Sunshine,
Beauclaire, Cadac, Traeger, Napoleon.
Types
of
barbecue grill
Gas
barbecue grills
Some
barbecue gas grills are available at your local hardware shop or garden
centre, with a greater selection of models being available from a
specialist barbecue retailer or an online barbecue
store.
Gas barbecues are becoming
more popular as many people consider them to be more convenient as they
are generally more convenient and versatile to use than some charcoal,
electric or wood grills. Gas barbecues also benefit from being
aesthetically pleasing and often make a special feature of your outdoor
living space.
All gas barbecue grills benefit from:
- Easy to light and ready to cook in minutes
- Quick and simple heat regulation
- Imparts its own distinct "off-the-grill"
flavour
- Convenient and versatile with many optional
extras
- Cleaner cooking, and easier to clean
- Can be tricky to set up initially
- Good for entertaining large groups due to
speed of cooking
Charcoal
barbecue grills
Arguably, nothing beats the taste of food cooked on
a charcoal barbecue. Charcoal
barbecues provide
heat from below the grill which emanates from the glowing embers. The
heat and smoke gives the meat or vegetables a
distinctive barbecued appearance and taste. On most charcoal
barbecue models, the heat
is adjusted by simply raising or lowering the level at which the grill
is set.
All
charcoal barbecues benefit from:
- Common choice favoured for its
delicious flavoursome smokey taste
- Highly portable, superb option for
any outdoor situation
- Inexpensive to purchase and to run
- Very simple to set up and requires
no gas bottle
- Most charcoal barbecues take over
20 minutes to get to cooking temperatures
Electric
barbecue grills
Electric
garden barbecues are equipped with a grill, like charcoal barbecues.,
and are suitable for indoor use as well as outdoors. They are are
convenient and easy to use and don't take up a lot of space. Electric
barbecues are
also convenient, very little smoke if any is produced and there is
usually an adjustable thermostat that controls the heating.
Electric
barbecue grills are well suited for places where space is limited, or
where other forms of barbecue grills are not allowed.
Choosing
a BBQ grill
When
it comes to choosing between the three main fuel types of BBQ grill,
there is often little information to hand that helps to explain the
small details. This information usually only comes through trial and
error of owning a BBQ grill of a certain type for some time, having
fathomed out what works and what doesn't. Don't worry, help is at hand,
and we can help show you how to go about choosing
a BBQ grill.
Wood
Pellet Barbecue grills
Traeger
barbecues were the originators of the wood pellet
grill, probably amongst the
most versatile cooking appliances you can own. Each of their
distinctive grills allows you to bbq, grill, smoke, and bake using 100%
hardwood barbecue pellets.
The
barbecue grill burns compressed hardwood pellets as fuel. The
specialised pellets are made from pure, compressed sawdust and are made
especially for this type of grill without the addition chemical
additives.
Portable
BBQ grills
When
you are on a trip in the great outdoors, camping, fishing or visiting
friends and family on a short break, a freestanding BBQ is sometimes
too large for the occasion, making ideal for external use such as a
small garden barbecue.
Many manufacturers, including
leading companies, such as Weber, Kamado, and Cobb, all offer
scaled-down portable BBQ grills that are perfect for use when ease of
transportation is required and you are catering for a smaller number of
people.
Ranging
in price from $30 upwards, portable BBQ grills are available to suit
all budgets and requirements, and run on gas, charcoal and even
electricity making them just as versatible as their larger
counterparts, the question is, what should you be looking for when
choosing a portable BBQ? Read our informative portable
BBQ guide
which will help you make an educated decision when buying your next
grill.
BBQ cleaning - How to keep
your barbecue grill clean
Cooking
on a barbecue grill is an enjoyable pursuit for many of us, but there
is a
single
(quite large), drawback. Cleaning the BBQ afterwards!
Removing the caked-on gunk after a session with your pride and joy is
one of those chore's that we all dread. So it's time to put on the
gloves, break out the cleaning fluids, and set to work on the grills
and hoods before your next bbq meal.
Thankfully,
cleaning your BBQ grill doesn't have to be an arduous job, and armed
with
some useful hints and tips, your next cleaning session will run much
more smoothly and take you a great deal less time. The best bit is that
you will get better results too.
Take a
look at our bbq cleaning
article and make your bbq grill shine like it never has before. You may
also want to check up on barbecue
hygiene and barbecue
safety as well to ensure that your outdoor cooking goes
without a hitch.
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