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Charcoal or gas?

How will you be BBQing this Summer?

  • Charcoal

    Votes: 54 64.3%
  • Gas

    Votes: 21 25.0%
  • Some other fancy dan way

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • I don't do BBQs

    Votes: 6 7.1%

  • Total voters
    84




Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patreon
May 8, 2007
12,751
Toronto
Charcoal obviously.

Gas is just like having a COOKER outside, it's not a proper barbecue.
 


WATFORD zero

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 10, 2003
25,679
The annual BBQ thread. My opinion hasn't changes in the last 12 years. Real men cook on Charcoal.
 




Tom Bombadil

Well-known member
Jul 14, 2003
6,024
Jibrovia
I don't barbeque anymore, but when i did, charcoal or cooking directly over a wood fire ( or more accurately over the embers). Don't see the point of a gas barbeque.
 




Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
NSC Patreon
Oct 27, 2003
20,938
The arse end of Hangleton
Gas is really just cooking, BBQ'ing can only be done over charcoal.
 


Prince Monolulu

Everything in Moderation
Oct 2, 2013
10,201
The Race Hill
Wood or charcoal

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BLOCK F

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,318
Charcoal for me and I have had both over the years.
First of all, it would be nice if the weather warmed up a bit.Reckon May has been pretty chilly.
 




OzMike

Well-known member
Oct 2, 2006
12,896
Perth Australia
I've got a large gas one, but I bought a couple of bags of lava rocks and put them on a rack between the griddle and the flame.
You don't get the charcoal effect, which is bad for your health anyway, but when the meat fat, or any other fluids, drip down onto them it ignites and you get a really nice barbeque flavour that way.
 


Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010
13,612
Quaxxann
The annual BBQ thread. My opinion hasn't changes in the last 12 years. Real men cook on Charcoal.

Are you suggesting that Hank Hill isn't a real man?
 


Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
Gas, on a proper setup with baffles etc not two piddly burners

If I want cooking to be a challenge I'll cook something more interesting than burgers and steaks, inside.
 




El Sid

Well-known member
May 10, 2012
3,806
West Sussex
Real men cook on Charcoal.

Real men politely advise their wives to study the extensive works of Nigella or order a decent take away.

BBQs should be banned under some sort of health law.

And anyone who buys a BBQ and then slaps cheap 90% dust filled sausages and chicken thighs on it should be locked up.
 




dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Mar 27, 2013
52,028
Burgess Hill
I've got a large gas one, but I bought a couple of bags of lava rocks and put them on a rack between the griddle and the flame.
You don't get the charcoal effect, which is bad for your health anyway, but when the meat fat, or any other fluids, drip down onto them it ignites and you get a really nice barbeque flavour that way.

This. The massive convenience of gas outweighs the sometimes slightly inferior result for me.
 






mejonaNO12 aka riskit

Well-known member
Dec 4, 2003
21,481
England
Gas? GAS!? for a BBQ!?

I'd never show my face again if I used GAS.

However, I do CHEAT a little with my coals now. I use one of those coal starter columns where they produce perfectly hot coals to then pour into the bbq. It's been magnificent.
 




Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,865
Guiseley
I was always a staunchly charcoal man but now we have a fantastic 3-burner outback and it's fantastic. Anyone who tells you you don't get the same flavour with gas is FIBBING.

I did a Full English on the barbecue for the first time yesterday, it was immense.

I also use it pretty much every day from May to September, which would be somewhat time consuming with a charcoal barbecue!
 
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OzMike

Well-known member
Oct 2, 2006
12,896
Perth Australia
I've sussed out how to keep it at 200 degrees with the lid down by regulating the burners.
This way I cook roast dinners etc. especially in the summer and Christmas, keeping the heat outdoors.
 



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