Woodburning Grill?

[redneckgeek]

If you are trying to get the smokey flavor into the meat, I recommend a fruit bearing wood. I use cherry or apple. I soak a few smaller "logs" for a few hours and then throw them right onto the charcoal. As long as you can limit the airflow in, they won't ignite- but they'll put off plenty of smoke.

 

[redneckgeek]

If you are cooking fish like salmon then you can plank the fish which is good

How do you think the plank would work with panfish? I'm always looking for a new way to cook them, since there's usually not much meat on them and it's easy to overdo it over an open fire.

 

[Fifty2One]

Spruce planks work good with perch and they are skinny fillets if you catch them yourself from a river and not the fat store bought ones. We throw a couple of onions into the fire when we are planking the perch, if you peel them until there is no brown paper skin then cook them in the fire until the outside skin is starting to blacken then the fish and the onions are ready same time. Chop the onion into strips and serve on a bun with some perch and a little black pepper. YUMMY!
Doing it on a plank is the same as steaming a fish so it is almost impossible to turn them into leather when cooking, also the flavour transfers evenly so it is tasty all through the fish.

How do you think the plank would work with panfish? I'm always looking for a new way to cook them, since there's usually not much meat on them and it's easy to overdo it over an open fire.

 

[oumahexi]

I always wanted one too. My greatgrandfather had one, so I could prolly consult family, but I'd really rather not talk to them.

I've never done any masonry, but I dont think mine will need any. likely just a new grate and some cleaning. someone said you put wood below a stone, then grill above that...but thats coming from the fiancee, so i don't really trust it...

You can get the grill section from B&Q. Make sure you measure first though because they are quite small, maybe around 2 feet long or so. Otherwise you'll be surprised what you can pick up at a scrap yard. When we built our first one we found a grill and pan from an old ship, it was a decent size.

Hope this helps

 

[Fifty2One]

2 chickens or 4 chicken breasts in a pot, add some small onions, potato cut in 1/4 and some carrots then pour one tin of ginger beer over it all and put in a preheated meduim oven [180C or 350F if you are using gas or electric] and cook for 1 hour. If you are cooking on open fire then place pot at the edge of the coals and rotate 1/4 turn each 15 minutes after is starts to steam. It will take maybe 30 minute longer on an open fire.

YUMMY

You have to use ginger BEER not ginger ale

 

[oumahexi]

For those of us now interested in furnishing the garden with all the trappings of summer, it might interest you to know that B&Q now have "self scanning". Presumably this is to make it easier for the shoplifters to keep up with current trends

 

[Len Boorman]

heh... I've never associated Brits with grilling. There I go, stereotyping again. Do you have a "specialty" that you like to grill?

Brits can grill anything
fish, meat, fowl, poilticions, rednecks, with or without smoking,beer spices.

Can use charcoal, wood, coal, gas oxy-acetylene

We are ambidextrous you know



Len

 

[Rich]

I don't like a grilled American though

 

[Len Boorman]

I don't like a grilled American though

Use plenty of tabasco sauce and a touch of tolerance and they are not to bad really.

L

 

[oumahexi]

Charcoal, charcoal, charcoal! I know women aren't supposed to bbq (we're still caught in our colonial days and call it a braai), but you can't beat charcoal. And if you're putting some T-Bones on, marinade them overnight with some garlic and beer! So tender, of course much better with Scottish beef

 

[BeerSnob]

I don't like a grilled American though

We're not so bad if we're basted in beer.

Or maybe that's "blasted on beer"... I'm not sure which

 

[Simon_MT]

Best barbie,

Half a 44 gallon drum and slots for a rotisserie.

Best food for a barbie a whole side of the finest Scottish Salmon but use a more modest barbie than described above.

In NZ the Maori's create hungis where you dig a pit and start a fire and put rocks on the fire. The rocks steams the crates of meat and vegetables which you seal with moist cloth and large leaves and then bury it. This was attempted in London and I believe an engine block was used instead of rocks.

I think the Polynesian's call them umus so, I don't think this type of cooking is at indigious to the States.

I believe that Costco does a line of barbies now, much like the Weber's.

Good portable barbie from Waitrose double sided great for camping.

Simon