Bun in the oven Industries, a Big BBQ Build in Kent.

Must admit. Every single thread of yours i read, it makes me want to build something

I might have to start a thread soon thanks to you

Smurf, veedubmaster, Thanks for the comments.

In the mean time the wind has managed to scoop the weather cowl off and plant it in middle of the garden, thankfully no one was at the receiving end of the 4 spikes.


Yesterday, in spite of the weather..... we had Peter and Jenny over for the afternoon into the evening BBQ and a visit.


We had an awesome day.

I felt quite bad showing Peter around and at one point he told his wife ha was not going home with her... (they are currently living with her 88year old mum)


Amazing how good a BBQ can taste when the breeze brings the temperature down to about 3'C



Of course, I had a real Boer plate dished up.... meat, and toasted Cheese, tomato and onion.

Your timing is good.

I used 1 1/2 bags of English coal from Wilko, and it died before the first lot of chicken and sausage was done, so I opened a bag of German and put it on top....not a lot, and 10 minutes later we did all the pork belly, steak and toated sandwiches.

I have to say, I have saved it, and it was the foirst of the 5 bags of 10kg each that I opened.

I think we are OK for now.

I am amazed every time I used German coal at just how superior it is, and even after I was finished there was maybe another 90 minutes cooking time left. ( I only used a little bit on top of the dying coals.)

Hey Thorsten, missed your response.

Never looked, but doubt there is a minimum standard on coal over here.

I am thankfull every time I cook on your coal that I can order my coal from Germany.

Summer will be very good for BBQ, even though I use it all year.

Somehow I missed the oven update to this Grizz, but it's brilliant.

Tach!
My mate Ralf and I plan a Motorbike-Tour to Cornwall in the end of August....maybe we have time to have a fine BBQ at your place....


Cheers

Hi Grizz ,Mudpud here again.Just read through my last post to you,meant to write "keep up the good work" not "keep it mate" sorry did not mean to sound rude.
Now I have just found your tear drop thread, Have to keep that out of the sight of the missus!or I will never get the DKW finished,"Sigh"

Just a quick related update.


My mate Maverick who lives over in Essex asked me a few weeks ago if I could give some advice and help him rebuild his BBQ.

Just a few bricks slapped together....

He had started building a BBQ a few years ago, an got to a point now where he broke most of what was there down as it had cracked etc.

So yesterday morning I took some tools, loaded a bunch of bricks, brick paving stones, and some paving slabs and timber I had kicking around here and drove over to his place, getting there just before 8am.

Fortunately Dirks mate Andy had loaned us his mixer, so that saved our backs.

Once we had cleared off the old brickwork and cleaned up the foundation we could start laying the bricks and making it up as we went along. We worked from two sides, the first time I have ever done that. And what a pleasure seeing progress happen so fast.

All the woodwork, doors etc on the BBQ is being replaced with new once the brickwork has dried as well, and the branches etc used on the fire.



By coffee break time we were getting on with it.



Almost there by 3.30pm



Opposite direction.




And finally we mixed a cement and sand mix, quite watery at 1:1 ratio as a "paint" to get the outside looking uniform, applied with a rather big brush to fill all the gaps etc and to get it all a uniform colour.

Once this is all dried out, Maverick will be painting the outside white, changing it from the current Battle ship grey.





So there you go, Easter Saturday entertainment captured on mobile phone camera.

I have yet to find a UK sourced bricquette or coal that gives me the same heat and time frame as the German coal I get brought in by Totti.