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  • 7 Reasons to Buy Solar Lighting - I don’t think that a day goes by now without someone mentioning the phrase “carbon footprint” and we all know that this is not a fad, it is here to stay. It is a continuous source of concern to me that even in this consumer society that we live in that we all do our bit to be environmentally friendly and contribute to creating a low carbon footprint. I wrote some articles a while ago that looked at the environmentally friendliness of the barbecue and if one argues that the energy consumed by a barbecue compared with any other form of cooking then certainly the charcoal barbecue can be considered environmentally friendly provided the wood source for the charcoal is harvested by coppicing.
  • English Independence Day BBQ Cooking - It all started over two hundred years ago with oppression and taxation by the British crown and ended up with a war. I am not sure why the American nation chooses to celebrate its separation from the British on July 4th but as a barbecue enthusiast I can really see the benefits.
  • 6 Seafood Grilling Tips - Grilling season is here. You've got your grill full of gas, you've stocked up on hamburgers, hot dogs, and steaks, and you're ready to go. But those hamburgers, hot dogs, and steaks are getting old fast.
  • 6 Tips For Buying Patio Umbrellas - To complete my outdoor patio furniture set I wanted to purchase a patio umbrella for my garden. I live in a relatively high altitude area of the country where the evenings can get quite chilly in the evenings so eating out isn’t always possible so when I plan a backyard BBQ cookout I like to go for lunchtime. My patio area is quite exposed so if the sun is out then it’s really easy for my guests to get burned and because many of them have young families I decided it was time to invest in a patio umbrella.
  • Cleaning Your Barbecue Grill - You've spent a lot of money for that shiny new barbecue grill. I'll bet you're looking forward to using it this summer. Your grill is a large part of outdoor entertaining.
  • Kamado Cooking For Chicken - If you’re not familiar with a kamado it’s a derivation of an ancient Chinese clay cooking pot that was later adapted by the Japanese (who named it Mushikamado) and it finally made it to the western world in the middle of the last century. Nowadays the clay has been replaced by high performance ceramic, it still typically is fuelled by charcoal but the versatility of the ceramic barbecue grill is pretty amazing. There’s a variety of brands on the market such as the Primo kamado and the Big Green Egg but it has to be said that trying to find a kamado ceramic barbecue in Europe is still a thankless task. The kamado is so versatile in that you can use it as a grill, smoker or even as an oven.
  • Two Techniques To Grill Whole Chicken - Chicken is my nations most popular meat however when it comes to the barbecue it’s probably less popular because people are more concerned to ensure that the meat is properly cooked. I’ve known some even to pre-cook chicken in the microwave first but this really isn’t necessary if you follow the basic rules that I’ve set out before. Just to re-iterate one point when using a charcoal barbecue grill, always give the coals time to settle before starting to cook (about 45 minutes) because despite chicken being described as a lean meat, the fat that is under the skin mobilises very quickly and makes for serious flames.
  • Outdoor BBQs - There is just something about having a meal outdoors that appeals to most. Regardless of how beautiful our home might be on the inside, we look forward every year to the real first sign of spring - the time we can fire up the grill and eat outside. Gone are the days when outdoor BBQs were just clumsy charcoal messes that took forever to get ready and were difficult, if not downright dangerous, to use. Today's outdoor BBQs can of course be the charcoal variety if you're a purist, but the use of propane has opened up a wide range of options for today's outdoor enthusiast.
  • Bbq Fever! - Can you feel that grease dripping from the corner of your mouth onto your hands as you take a bite? You try to slurp in that gooey oil before it trickles down to your hands but instead you are forced to lick your fingers. How about those greasy fries layered in fat waiting to clog up your arteries. The juicy hamburger oozing with creamy mayonnaise intertwined with the thick sweet and sour sauce. Heck, we mind as well go the full nine yards and finish it off with a chocolate chip fudge sundae!

  • Grilling: Charcoal Vs. Gas Grills - As the light Spring months descend upon us and the grills start coming out in earnest to nearly every backyard and deck, the age old question resurfaces of which is better: gas grills or charcoal grills, and why? What it really comes down to is a few key characteristics that each offers the consumer. What your individual priorities are such as cost, taste, energy consumption, etc in a grill determines which type of grill would be best suited to you. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the most important aspects of gas and charcoal grills below to help you find your way to the right type of grill. Convenience Many people opt for a grill depending on the convenience attached to it. Is it easy to turn on?
  • Kamado Bbq Smoker Lies - Over Christmas I bought a Big Green Egg. I read all the marketing blurb in the brochure and it captured my imagination, I’ve already written about how good it is and published some kamado barbecue recipes but I was still intrigued to find out more about the origins of such a versatile piece of cooking equipment. I wrote an article about it but since publishing it, I’ve done more research and found that some of my original findings may have already been creative in their origins. My preliminary research on the internet and found out that it’s origins lay in clay cooking pots from China that were later adapted by the Japanese a few hundred years ago.
  • Mangal Israeli Style Barbecue – Wow! This Sounds Appetizing - Mangal – this Israeli-style grilling is what identifies a citizen of Israel from rest of the world. The name Mangal comes from a kind of indoor heater, which was available during the 20th century. However, western-type stoves replaced this later.
  • Char Siu – The Charm Of Chinese Barbeque - Char siu, the other name for Chinese Barbequed pork is in fact Cantonese-style barbequed pork. The primary requirement for cooking up this delicacy is a long stretch of boneless pork mainly taken from the shoulder. Char siu is characteristic in its own type due to its coating of seasonings which makes the meat look dark red.
  • Top Barbecuing Gifts Will Fetch You Invitation To Every Barbecue Party - Gone are the days when gifts meant flowers for women and ties for men. These days you choose gifts that complement the temperament and lifestyle of the receiver. Thus it is a Red Indian outfit set for your tomboyish niece or the top barbecuing gifts for your socialite grandparents. Top barbecuing gifts are ideally belongings to keep the grilling equipment in top working order and the food tasting the best ever. Grillfitti Grill Covers constitute one of the top barbecuing gifts for the grill addict. These covers are good looking and long lasting. They do a stupendous job of keeping the grill dry and clean. The BBQ Brush Hogs are also great barbecue gifts to help maintain the grill in spanking clean condition.
  • A Chef's Guide To Buying A Barbecue - Walk into any store specializing in barbecues for sale and one is immediately faced with an astonishing and bewildering display of different models at widely differing prices. How do you choose the one that is right for you? It helps to know the principal difference between them. The truth is, for all the different shapes and sizes there are basically only two barbecue models; flat bed or kettle. Which one you choose will depend very much on what you want it to do and the size of it will be determined by the number of people you intend to cook for. If you entertain a great deal, you may find yourself ending up with both types.
  • Memphis Barbeque - Seven Bbq Restaurants In Seven Days - I am a huge Barbecue Fanatic. So one of my favorite places to visit on Earth is Memphis, Tennessee. The home of the Blues is also the home of some delicious Memphis Barbecue. There is nothing else quite like sinking your teeth into the smokey goodness of the just right ribs at Charlie Vergo's Rendezvous or enjoying the Blues-backed tangy sauces on Beale Street.
  • Driftwood, Texas: Home Of The Famous Salt Lick BBQ - I bet you’ve heard about the famous “Salt Lick” restaurant and may have tasted their nationally well known BBQ recipes. All around the country, Salt Lick restaurant draws in crowds of BBQ lovers in Driftwood, Texas, a small town in the Hays County located between Dripping Springs and Wimberley. Nearly forty years ago, Thurman and Hisako Roberts started the Salt Lick restaurant in the heart of Driftwood.
  • Patio Lights - Residential Landscape Lighting and Design offers patio lighting for functional, decorative, and purely artistic themes. With a full inventory of patio lights of all sizes from the top manufacturers in the world, Residential Landscape Lighting Design can furnish your entire patio with lights of all styles, sizes, purposes, and designs. You can even find patio lights for special holidays and regional decorative themes, all at prices competitively offered to accommodate the wide variety of lifestyles our customers live. Choose today from our selection of functional, semi-decorative, and special decorative lights and start creating a whole new experience for your patio and entire backyard living experience. For enclosed patios, we offer a wide array of halogen patio and porch lights from manufacturers like Arroyo Craftsmen, Focus Industries, and Adjusta-Post.
  • Outdoor Lighting Fixtures - When building a new home, remodeling your existing house or landscaping the yard, you should not overlook the possibilities and benefits of outdoor lighting. Outdoor lighting is a fantastic way to enhance the nighttime vista of your yard, expand the boundaries of your home and provide security lighting for your family. A well designed outdoor lighting system should incorporate many types of lights such as security lights, flood lights, step lights, decorative lanterns, landscape lights, barbeque lights as well as provisions for seasonal lighting. Security lights are the foundation of any outdoor lighting plan. These outdoor lighting fixtures are typically mounted on the house, near doorways, garages or areas where you feel extra light will give you peace of mind.
  • Great Outdoor BBQs - Holding great outdoor BBQs is not just about the sausages, the burgers or the fish dishes that compliment the grilled food. With some advanced thought and good presentation can certainly go along way to making that all important great outdoor BBQs something to be remember and envied. When cooking those famous burgers of yours don’t forget the all important burger buns, but don’t forget the importance of a fresh and somewhat crusty bread will always go down well. The French stick! The French stick always looks superb cut in diagonal slices, wrapped in a fresh cloth placed in the middle of the table in a long dish. Place a cover over the butter dish. We don’t want unwanted guest at our great outdoor BBQs such as bugs and flies.
  • Essential Tips For The Novice Smoker - Writing a website full of BBQ Smoker Recipes is a time consuming business even at the best of times.
  • Charcoal Briquette Manufacturing Is Environmentally Friendly - It’s interesting to note that before Henry Ford made the BBQ grill popular by link selling it to his cars with the vision of day trips and pic-nics, charcoal was nothing but a waste product left over from the recovery of acetic acid and methanol. In the early 1900’s after more efficient and less expensive methods were developed for synthesizing acetic acid and methanol, charcoal production declined only to be revitalized by the development of the briquette for recreational cooking. Converted to mass production by Ford in the 1920’s charcoal briquettes are made of two primary ingredients, one of which is basically traditional lump wood charcoal referred to a char.
  • How To Ensure Barbecue Food Safety - Many friends and work colleagues have phoned in sick because of food poisoning and followed it up with something like “I had a BBQ at the weekend, and I must have eaten something not properly cooked”. To be honest I think some of them probably just drank too much but clearly there’s enough of a belief out there that food hygiene is a problem at a barbeque for either a genuine day off work or a cast iron excuse. In many of the barbecue articles that I’ve written I’ve concentrated on the phrase “sizzle is hot, flames are not” which focuses on the need to be patient and control the barbecue flames. If however you still haven’t mastered this point then maybe it’s time to resign yourself to buying a barbecue thermometer?
  • Why I Need A Kamado In My Garden - Clay vessels have been used by humans to cook food for many thousands of years. Clay cooking pots have been found in every part of the world and some of the earliest dated by Archaeologists to be over 3000 years old have been found in China. All over the globe the elementary clay cooking vessel has evolved in many different ways, the tandoor for example in India and in Japan, the Mushikamado; a device designed to steam rice for ceremonial occasions.
  • Essential Disposable Bbq Cookout Tips - Not so many moons ago I wrote an article entitled “How To Have The Perfect Barbecue” in which I lambasted most of my friends for burning food on the BBQ and shared my essential tips for ensuring a perfect barbecue every time. An alternative way to put it is “How to BBQ without flames” because the secret to charcoal cooking (and indeed gas barbecuing) is sizzle and not flames.
  • Why I Prefer Lump Wood Charcoal - The history and tradition of charcoal burning goes back thousands of years and there’s something magical about cooking on a charcoal barbecue grill. Charcoal is the traditional fuel for barbecues because it produces a hot, long-lasting fire that is virtually smokeless. The fundamentals of charcoal manufacture is the burning of wood in a low-oxygen atmosphere, a process that drives out the moisture and volatile gases present in the original fuel.
  • How To Write A Recipe - It amazes me how many great chefs can cook fantastic dishes yet fail to be able to write recipes in a clear and concise way that makes for easy reading and understanding.
  • Is A Big Green Egg As Good As They Say It Is? - Do we believe the hype? I’ve read the brochure, visited the website and watched all the DVDs. In fact if there’s any piece of promotional material for the Big Green Egg that I haven’t read I’d be surprised and it all sounds too good to be true. That is of course if you are a barbecue nutcase like me!
  • Don't Grill In The Dark - Light Up Your Bbq! - Barbecue lights help make outdoor cooking safer and cleaner by enabling people to clearly see what they are grilling.
  • Modern Man And The Barbecue Grill - Here’s the enigma of the barbecue grill….. Two customers have complained today and one of my suppliers just isn’t providing the quality of materials that I need. In short it’s been a rough day “at the office”. I’m a bit down in the dumps but as soon as I get home and my heart lifts. My children greet me and are itching to tell me all about their day and there’s a wonderful smell of cooking coming from the kitchen. I give my wife a hug and ask “Hey, what’s cooking?” Tonight will be oven roasted chicken thighs on a bed of vegetables roasted in olive oil.
  • Barbecues, Smokers And The Environment - Outdoor cooking on the barbecue and smoker is now becoming a serious leisure pastime.
  • How To Build A Barbecue For Under $1 - I went into my local garden centre recently to find that the whole place have been completely re-vamped and a massive area dedicated to barbecues and smokers. What did this tell me?........Two things:- 1.Barbecue grills and outdoor smokers continue to become more popular recreational equipment. 2.There’s money to be made! Let’s face it; the smartest “in your face” displays have got to be for the products that carry the biggest margins, right?
  • Healthy Steamed Vegetables On The Barbecue Grill - BBQ salads are the easy accompaniment to an outdoor cookout and do work really well but sometimes I like my barbecue menu ideas to be a little different. In fact, not just different, something that can become a bit of a talking point too. My inspiration comes from cooking corn cobs.
  • How To Have The Perfect Barbecue - I’m never more delighted than when I get invited to a barbecue cookout at a friends house, not only because it’s the way of cooking that I prefer but also because it’s a great opportunity to have a chin wag and a glass of “pop” with folks that I maybe only get to see once or twice a year. I’m really fortunate to be part of a great bunch of lads, one group from my school days and another set from university and everyone gets on really well together.
  • Menu Ideas For The Barbecue Grill - A good barbecue isn't easy and there's no substitute for experience but we've all got to start somewhere so if you're a BBQ novice then read on.
  • Electric Smokers - People love the aroma and taste of smoky food prepared in gas or charcoal grills. It is the favorite foods prepared in the week days and enjoyed with the whole family. Smokers can be wood, charcoal, gas or electric. You must be thinking how an electric smoker can give the flavor of smoke in the food and the taste prepared in a gas or any other smoker. To prepare a barbecue you have to spend time in tending fire and watching temperatures, this process sound tedious where you have to be watchful to get the best taste of the food prepared. If you want more comfort in cooking switch on to electric smokers which works with precision and ease in addition to the choice of introducing smoke flavors you want.
  • Bbq Smokers - A Big Part Of American Cookery - Smokers may not be used as often as the stove or the microwave oven these days, but they have been a part of American cookery for a long time now. In fact, there were even smoking houses built in the early days which were mainly used to preserve meat. Today, that kind of smoking food is still alive as evidenced by the smoked bacon, ham or lox we still have. Indeed, smokers have been around for generations and definitely for many more to come. There are two kinds of smoking methods – hot and cold smoking. Hot smoking is simply letting hot smoke pass through the food to cook it.
  • Barbecue an American Tradition - Barbecue is as American as apple pie. It's aroma evokes memories of baseball games, swimming and family vacations. Mouths water when the grill is fired up. Preparing meat for the barbecue is just as important as the cooking itself. Marinating infuses flavor into the meat, ensuring a delicious family meal that will not be easily forgotten. Marinating is the process of steeping meat in a mixture of an acid (i.e. vinegar, lemon juice, or wine) and spices (i.e. salt, pepper, and herbs.
  • Different Types of Barbecue Grills? - Summer is here and the steaks are ready to grill, the only problem is that you don't know exactly what type of barbeque grill to buy.
  • BBQ Ideas For An Unusually Refreshing Drink - Everyone puts so much emphasis on the food during a BBQ, but who really thinks about making the drinks special as well? Lets do more than just the usual soda and punch. Lets make something truly unique that your guests will love. Tropical Shake: Nothing goes better with a hot BBQ than a cold drink.
  • BBQ Ideas For The Best Hot Wings You Ever Had - No matter who you are or where you're from, there is nothing better than a backyard BBQ. Or a beach BBQ. Or a State Park BBQ. Or a BBQ in someone else's backyard. Hey, they're just plain fun. Here are some great BBQ ideas for your next get-together. Hot Wings: These spicy little suckers are one of the best BBQ ideas ever. Nothing says, "Eatin' in the yard," like hot wings. Here's how to make up a bunch of these yummy appetizers that your crowd will really love.
  • BBQ Ideas That Will Have Your Kids Jumping For Joy - It's nice to have a BBQ and enjoy the adult talk while the children play. However, if the children grow bored, they're going to let you know pretty quickly. Stop the whines and moans by giving the kids some great things to do while you enjoy adult conversation and have fun watching the kids play. Here are some great BBQ ideas that are kid-friendly. 1. Place a big basket of outdoor toys that are age related outside near the BBQ area. This will help keep your children occupied so that they will also be having a great time. You can choose toys like dump trucks, little cars, shovels, or other things that your kids will enjoy. 2. Encourage your friends or family to bring their children.
  • Safety Tips for Grilling - BBQing as it is commonly known or grilling is one of America's favorite summer past times. Why grill? Grilling provides an opportunity to entertain family and friends. It is a stress-free and relaxing way to prepare delicious nutritious meals on weekdays or weekends. Preparing meals during the summer months on the stove or in the oven increase the heat in our home causing our cooling bill to increase. To save energy and money why not "fire up the grill." According to the National Fire Protection Agency approximately 1,000 structure fires and 3,400 outdoor fires are caused by barbecue grills annually.
  • Korean 'cue - Barbecue! The searing heat of open flames, the tantalizing sizzle of cooking meat, the rising smoke that tells you that piece of beef has been on the grill just a bit too long. It’s iconic, it’s perfect for summer, it’s…happening in the middle of your table? Wait, what?

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