[Food] Charcoal

[Easy 10]

It still feels like CHEATING

I used to build a little pyramid and place my firelighters all round it, then return to give it multiple little pokes, and pick up the briquettes / charcoal that had rolled off. Bollocks to all that FAFF.

Shortcuts aren't cheating. They're WILEY and CREATIVE. And they get RESULTS.

 

[Commander]

The problem with the chimney starter is it is ready to cook on in 20 mins and it’s no hassle. What’s the point in having a BBQ if I can’t faff around at the bottom of the garden in the sunshine for hours, necking beers, under the guise of supervising the thing?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

The problem with the chimney starter is it is ready to cook on in 20 mins and it’s no hassle. What’s the point in having a BBQ if I can’t faff around at the bottom of the garden in the sunshine for hours, necking beers, under the guise of supervising the thing?

Precisely this

 

[Easy 10]

The problem with the chimney starter is it is ready to cook on in 20 mins and it’s no hassle. What’s the point in having a BBQ if I can’t faff around at the bottom of the garden in the sunshine for hours, necking beers, under the guise of supervising the thing?

I just tend to drink throughout. Once I start grilling, I don't leave it. Which means everything is brought hither, and I can be somewhat heroic merely through cooking everything excellently, ie not burning it or leaving anything raw inside. I raise a finger, the beer arrives.

I'll never forget attending a mates BBQ once. He lit it, then chucked the meat on (before the coals had even greyed), then instead of tending to it, spent the afternoon chasing his kids round the garden whilst the food burnt to shit. He'd return now and then to turn bits over, but by then of course, the damage had already been done. Carnage.

I think I ate the least charcoaled sausage I could find, and we got a takeout when we got home. Either stand over the thing for the duration, or don't even bother. Thats my mantra.