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.

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

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

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

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.