Barbecue equipment, recipes and pictures

Fairy in a Garden

2012-08-30T17:00:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!
Today I found another nice hobby I'll try out.
It might look a little off-topic, but until barbecue is done outside in the nature, it fits.
I'll start to build my own fairy garden.
Yea you heard right!
Those fairy gardens are amazing stuff!
You create a mini garden designed to lure Fairies into it.
How cute would it be to have one of those little creatures in your graden?
They could grant us wishes for our bbqs and other parts of our life.

I always wanted to have a bigger family, maybe they can help me with this :P

Oh man that would be so awesome!
I found about about this on a website i found by accident while clicking a forum.
If you want a Fairy in a Garden aswell, let us do it together!
I already ordered a few things I'll need so I can start after the weekend.

Just comment if you know stuff about fairy gardening or want to know more.
Maybe be can work together :)

Peace out and have a nice weekend!

Rolled pork

2012-02-29T04:07:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
*Red paprica
*Onions
*Ground meat
*Cheese
*Pork belly
*Your favorite rub

Step 1:

Cut off the pork bellys fat as shown above.

Step 2:

Use a butterfly cut to pop up the pork belly. Afterwards place cheese, paprica and onions on it, leave 1/3 empty.

Step 3:

Roll the pork belly and lace it up.

Step 4:

Roll the belly fat around your rolled pork and place it on your barbecue.

Step 5:

It's ready when it looks like this!

Grilled banana

2012-02-27T06:27:00.001-08:00

This recipe is very simple and very tasty.

Ingredients:
*Bananas
*Ice cream
*Almond
*Egg liqueur
*Choclate sauce
*Whipped cream

Step 1:

Place bananas on to your barbecue.
Be careful! Don't have too much heat and flip them around often.

Step 2:

Place Icecream, whipped cream, and egg liqueuer on a plate, give the banana on it and put your chocolate sauce on top.
Enjoy :)

Big Italian Burger

2012-02-26T19:43:00.001-08:00

Ingredients:
*Ciabatta bread
*Rocket
*Parmesan
*Ground meat
*Tomatoes
*Mozzarella
*Mayonnaise

Step 1:
Take the Ciabatta,

Cut it, put mayonnaise, rocket and parmesan on it.

Step 2:

Do the patties

Step 3:

After flipping them, place tomatoes and mozarella on them

Step 4:

Put the patties onto your ciabatta and give some bbq sauce to it.

Step 5:

Enjoy your italian burger!

Bypass Burger

2012-02-25T06:16:00.000-08:00

This is the perfect burger for meatlovers!

Indregients:

*Burgerbuns
*Honey Barbecue Sauce
*Tomatoes
*Onions
*Salad
*Cheese
*Bacon
*Chilis
and the most important part
*ALOT of MEAT!

Step 1:

Form patties out of the ground meat, use some salt and pepper.

Put them on your barbecue and after flipping them around, put cheese on top.

Step 2:

Do the bacon and onions, place them on your burgerbun.

Step 3:

Place four patties onto your bacon and put tomatoes on top.

Step 4:

Put some salad on top of the tomatoes and use your barbecue sauce!

Enjoy trying to eat this.

Chicken Sandwhich

2012-02-10T15:04:00.000-08:00

Okay this is a very simple, but tasty chicken sandwhich recipe.

Ingredients:

-Bun

-Chilis

-Onions

-Cheese

-Old bread
-Any BBQ-Sauce

Step 1:

Do rosted Onions

Step 2:

Slice chilis

Step 3:

Rub your chickenbreast with your BBQ-Sauce and crunch your old bread to breadcrumbs, bread it and put it on a smoker.

Step 4:
Cut your chickenbreast into pieces and check if its okay.

Step 5:

Get a bun, put some oil, your onions, chilis, chickenbreast and cheese on it and enjoy ;)

Bacon Bomb

2012-02-01T11:34:00.000-08:00

Bacon bomb is one of my favorite things to do and eat.

It's alot of fat, alot of meat, alot of crunch and every woman hates it.

Here is what you need:

* Ground meat

* Bacon

* Cheese

* Onions

* Paprica

* Chilis

* Salt

* Pepper

* A lot of people or a lot of appetite

- Step 1

Form a web out of your bacon stripes.

-Step 2

Cover it with ground meat

-Step 3

Place onions, chilis, paprica, cheese and whatever you like in onto the bottom third.

-Step 4

Wrap it together

-Step 5

Place it on your barbecue, direct heat.

-Step 6

Enjoy!

Calf Ribeye Steak

2012-01-19T05:08:00.000-08:00

I just did this awesome calf ribeye steak and felt like sharing.
As usual I took alot of pictures, enjoy.

Step1 : The Rub

Salt
Roasted garlic
Parsley
Unions
Rosemary
Thyme
Lemon peel
Capers

Chop these ingredients into very small pieces and mix them up.
Afterwards put some olive oil to your mixture.

Step 2: Prepare the meat

Unpack it and use the rub on it.
Make sure it is everywhere!

After you've done that, let it rest in the fridge for one day.

Step 3: The barbecue

On the next day, it's time for the barbecue!
For getting some color, we will put our calf ribeye on a very hot spot of or barbecue.

When this is done, put it to a coretemperatur of 60°C (140°F).

After 2,5 hours it reached its goal and looked like this:

I served it with dumplings and mushroomsauce. It was delicious!

Moinkballs

2012-01-14T06:02:00.000-08:00

Moinkballs are one of the easiest and classiest ground meat meals.

Ingredients:

* 500g ground meat
* 250g cheese
* 250g bacon

Spice:

* 1 tablespoon mixed pepper
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon paprica
* 1 teaspoon thyme
* 1 teaspoon oregano
* 1 teaspoon garlic

Step 1:
Mix the ingredients for the spice and use them on the ground meat.

Step 2:
Form 6 balls of the spiced ground meat around some cheese.

Step 3:

Surround the balls by bacon.

Step 4:

Place them into indirekt heat for 45 minutes and check the result

Step 5:

If they look like this, they are ready to be eaten ;)

Pulled Pork

2012-01-11T02:27:00.000-08:00

Pulled Pork is one of the classic pork bbq meals.

Here's the equiptment/ingridients you will need:

* Smoker/Any BBQ that can provide indirect heat
* Gas/Charcoals/Wood
* Porks neck

Rub:

* 1/2 cup paprica
* 1/4 cup salt
* 1/4 cup powdered sugar
* 2 ts mustard
* 1/4 cup chillipowder
* 1/4 cup caraway
* 2 ts mixed pepper
* 1/4 cup garlic

Step 1:

Mix the rubs ingredients.

Step 2:

Rub the pork's neck

Step 3:

Put it on the barbecue (use a thermometer)

Step 4:

When it starts to look like this, give some applejuice on it and

flip it around.

Do this a couple of times

Step 5:

When your pulled pork looks like this (core temperature about 90 °C/194 °F, 12 hours), it's ready!

Put it in a bowl and use a fork to pull it into alot of pieces (thats where the name pulled pork comes from!)

Your pulled pork is done now :)
I love to eat it with slaw, tzatziki and buns

Enjoy!

Burger Buns

2012-01-09T06:43:00.000-08:00

Every good burger starts with its buns!
The buns are very imporant, because a bad bun can ruin your whole burger, so make sure to have a good recipe. Here's my favorite:

Ingredients:

- 170-230 ml water
- 2 ts butter
- 1 big egg
- 50g sugar
- 1 1/4 ts salt
- 1 ts yeast
- 500g flour

Preparation:

1.)Put milk, water und butter in a small pot and heat it to 50 °C (122°F )
2.) Mix up flour with yeast, salt and sugar. Add milk-water-butter-mix and knead it alot. After 5 minutes of kneading, you are ready to add the eggs. Afterwards do more kneading.
3.) Form buns of about 70g onto a baking sheet powdered with flour. Give some sesame on top of them and cap them with wet paper towel and let it rest for 30-35 minutes.
4.) Put it in the oven for 12-15 minutes at 200°C (392 °F)
5.) When taking them out of the oven, cap them with a wet paper towel again for 5 minutes.

Thermometer

2012-01-02T05:06:00.000-08:00

A very nice gadget to have is a barbecue thermometer.
It is used to check the core temperature of your meat.

If you want to have a nice pulled pork, a thermometer is essential, because you got to make sure, you will hit a core temperature between 105-115 °C ( 221- 239 °F).

The most important aspect of your bbq thermometer is that the display is wireless.
This is important, because pulled pork for example takes up to 16 hours and i bet you don't want to be outside at your barbecue all the time.
It's way more comfortable to sit at the TV, sippin' beer, your wireless display on the table :)

Barbecue tongs

2012-01-02T04:50:00.000-08:00

One of the most important gadgets to have is a barbecue tongs.

Flipping meat with a fork will cause damages, making the meat dry out and destroy its structure.
A good barbecue tongs should meet the following criteria:

-At least 40cm long

This is important to keep enough distance to the bbqs heat

-Made of stainless steel
-Ergonomic grip
-Lockable

Nothing is more pitiable than a steak in the dirt.

These barbecue tongs usually cost between 20-50$ and in my ipinion, they are a good investment.

Charcoal lighters

2011-12-29T17:08:00.000-08:00

Another way of lighting your charcoal, is using charcoal lighters.
These are little cubes, containing different materials that are easy to light and burn for a long time.

Using them is very simple:

1. Buy them :P
2. Build up a charcoal pyramide and place multiple charcoal lighters at spots you can reach.
3. Light them

That's it and that's the reason why they are so popular.
In difference to lighter fluid, it is easy to control the amount of lighter you want to use, because it is cut into several small pieces.
In addition, you ain't gonna cause a darting flame.
You can use charcoal lighters in combination with the chimney aswell.

Pros of charcoal lighters:

-Easy usage
-Fast
-Save
-Cheap

Cons of charcoal lighters:

-Depending on the materials used, they can provide a chemical taste

Electric charcoal starter

2011-12-20T15:48:00.000-08:00

Electric charcoal starter

A kind of new way to light your charcoal is using an electric charcoal starter.

To ensure a proper use, you should arrange a charcoal pyramid.
Afterwards you plug your electric charcoal starter into power supply and hold it into your charcoal pyramid. After a few minutes, your charcoals should start burning and glowing.
When they do so, you can take out the electric charcoal starter and wait until the charcoal is covered with white ashes.
Using an electrical charcoal starter is combinable with using a chimney.

Pros of using an electric charcoal starter:

-Easy in use
-No chemicals
-No smoke

Cons of using an electric charcoal starter:

-With ~100US$, they are expensive
-Not suitable for outdoor BBQs because of the need of power

Wood

2011-12-20T15:29:00.001-08:00

Wood

A lot of people swear that lighting your charcoal with wood is the best of all ways.

To do this, you need to place some newspaper on the bottom of your BBQ.

Afterwards you need some very dry and small pieces of wood arranged on top of the newspapers.

When you’ve done that, a charcoal pyramid is placed above the wood.

Next step is to light the newspaper, watch it burn the wood, causing the charcoal to glow.

Pros of using wood:

-Most original way

-No chemistry

-Original taste

Cons of using wood:

-If you buy the wood, it’s expensive

-It takes some time

-Wet wood can cause a lot of smoke

Lighter fluid

2011-12-20T15:18:00.000-08:00

Lighter fluid

A way of lighting your charcoal is using lighter fluid.

First of all I want to mention that this method is dangerous and about ~5000 people hurt themselves by using lighter fluid.

It is highly flammable and needs to be kept away from children.

To use it right, build a pyramid with your charcoal. Cover every single piece of charcoal with lighter fluid and give it at least 5 minutes to soak into the charcoal.

When these 5 minutes have passed, light a newspaper and use it to ignite the charcoal.

Once it starts burning, you can’t use the lighter fluid again, because even hot charcoals can cause the lighter fluid to burn/explode, what is very dangerous.

Pros of lighter fluid:

-Fast

Cons of lighterfluid:

-Bad taste

-Very dangerous

-A lot of smoke

Chimney

2011-12-19T09:31:00.000-08:00

The Chimney

A chminey is used to ignite charcoal. In my opinion, they are very useful, because they are very easy and save in usage, ignite charcoal quick and ensure an uniform and equally heating of the coal.

You simply put the charcoal into the chimney and place some lightened papers below it.

Afterwards you can grab a beer, chat with your guests and after about 10 minutes, your charcoal is ready.
Flip over the chimney, arrange the charcoal and put on the meat ;)

Pros of the chimney:

-Easy and save in use

-No chemistry

-No additional smoke

Cons of the chimney:

-Takes some time

-You need a chimney

Gas barbecue

2011-12-19T08:51:00.000-08:00

The Gas-BBQ

The Gas-BBQ is the easy way of doing a barbecue.

It is runned with liquid gas like butane- or propanegas.

It’s called the easy way of BBQ, because there are no delays or queue times. You can start the second you ignite the gas.

There are different types of Gas barbecues.

A lot of them use lavastones or ceramics that get heated. They are porous to catch the fat the meat loses inside your BBQ.

When buying a BBQ, it is important to have a water bowl below your lavastone to make sure the fat is caught somewhere.

Another important point is the positioning of the gasburners.

The best place for them is on the sides of your BBQ, so they won’t ignite the dropping fat.

To flavor your meat, get some wood chips packed in aluminium foil and use a fork to place holes in it and put it onto your BBQ. The taste will spill around and affect your meat.

Pros of a Gas-BBQ

-No preheating

-Amount of heat is controllable by amount of gas flowing

-Easy to clean

-No annoying smoke

-You can use them on a balcony

Cons of a Gas-BBQ

-They are big, heavy and hard to move

-Meat won’t have the typical charcoal taste

-You need Gas

-Expensive

Charcoal barbecue

2011-12-18T17:17:00.000-08:00

Charcoal Barbecue

Im going to start with most romantic and original way of barbcue: the charcoal barbecue!

To a lot of BBQ-Fans, charcoal BBQ is the only BBQ allowed. Charcoal barbecues are available in many different sizes, forms and materials. I would suggest one made of stainless steel, because you are outside every time you do a barbecue.

If you want to have a charcoal barbecue, make sure to light the coal 30 minutes before your guests arrive to avoid queue time.

You should also make sure that the heated area of your charcoal is bigger than the area occupied by meat. You can check if your charcoal is ready, by checking if there is a white ash layer on top of them. After blowing away the ashes, you are good to go!

If you want to eat lean meat, oiling the charcoal grate is a good idea.

Try to only flip over your meat ONCE! By doing so multiple times, it will dry out and you won’t get a nice BBQ look.

Another important point is that you shouldn’t overload the barbecue.

Place a few pieces of meat on it and try to give them enough space.

In addition, it is very important to use salt and pepper AFTER the meat is finished.

Using salt to early will cause dry meat and the pepper will burn up, leaving a bad taste.

When your meat is finally done, give it five minutes to rest.

After you had a nice BBQ-Party, don’t forget to clean up your charcoal grate, so the next party can come J

Pros of a charcoal BBQ:

-You will get the typical BBQ-Taste

-Open fire, nice heat and the true BBQ-Flair

Cons of a charcoal BBQ

-A lot of cleaning work

-Smoke can annoy your neighbours and guests

-Winds can cause ashes to fly around

-Open fire can be dangerous to children

Electric grill

2011-12-18T16:52:00.000-08:00

Electric BBQ

To start off with, an electric barbecue is no real barbecue.

This comes along with its lack of fire and the need of power. An electric grill is using energy out of an electrical socket to heat a plate to throw your meat on.

There are a lot of different types of electric barbecues and they are used for different purposes, but all of them got one thing in common: You will get very little heat meaning you will have a hard time getting a good steak!

Pros of an electric BBQ

-Easy to transport

-No need of gas or charcoal

-Easy to clean

-No smoke

-Very save in usage

Cons of an electric BBQ

-Very little heat

-No real BBQ-Taste