I’m weeding my veg patch while next-door is trying to get their BBQ going.

Yet only a few steps away in their kitchen they have an electric grill that can cook their food through completely, without turning the outside into ash while leaving the inside raw or frozen, and without creating eye watering smoke…

BBQs: What is the effing point?

What?? Are you a girl?

Meat / Fire / Man

That’s why

Veg patch?
Pah!!

I’m with you. I hate BBQ s.

Why have a veg patch? Just down the road is a supermarket half full of them ready-grown 😉

I’m weeding my veg patch

you know they sell vegetables in the shops?

I claim Troll no one can be that BBQist can they?

Why? If they’re anything like my new(ish) neighbours, so they can invite all their friends around to talk at the top of their voices about what a nice quiet area they’ve moved into.

[/talks self out of ranting]

I love the smell of a bbq. Hopefully having one Wednesday. Shirley no one can dislike bbq’s?!

BBQ’s are great. The problem is they often create gangs of drunk blokes playing music too loudly in next doors garden so no one else can enjoy being out in their own garden.

Yes I understand the whole meat/fire/man marketing effect. I could even understand them practiceing for the day that the power doesn’t flow… But BBQ is usually an expensive way of spoiling some perfectly good food

As for the veg, I know what they were grown in.

0/10…

without turning the outside into ash while leaving the inside raw or frozen

….you’re doing it wrong.

They’re doing it wrong.

I don’t hate BBQs, I’m just bemused by the concept.

Because bbq’d food is tasty and very much a rare treat with our weather – might as well make the most of a nice day and spend it outside with your mates and some beers! I had 2 bbq’s last weekend 🙂

Barbies are just rubbish. Cook food in kitchen, eat in dining room, go pub.

i do a BBQ here every thursday

No objection to alfresco dining, but wouldn’t you prefer uncarbonised food?

How do you know? Been ’round for a sausage? 😉

I don’t hate BBQs

Are you sure??

BBQs: What is the effing point?

Sounds like you’re not over enamoured by them.

I bloody love BBQs, me.

Clearly your inept at cooking like a real man and resent us who can. You stck to your oven precious little darling 😉

BBQ’s are for sitting outside with friends in the sun getting slowly pissed while eating various farm yard animals. I cant be arsed having them at home but if there is a group of friends firing one up then it would be rude not to.

an expensive way of spoiling some perfectly good food

but wouldn’t you prefer uncarbonised food?

what’s with the carbonising/ruining food assumption?

BBQ’s are a great way to cook meat.

EDIT- and veg, esp. if home grown 😉

I’m just bemused by the concept.

Its just a way of cooking food, whats your problem?

Got no mates to have one with?

Only carbonises the food if you’re crap.

This thread is either a troll or based on ignorance.

BBQ/braii’d food is delicious, it’s also a fun, social activity.

Currently got a leg of lamb in the Weber!

The problem is that in the u.k the weather means that a bbq is a rare treat and therefore people do not get to know how long to cook food for.I was at my daughters last week and she asked how I could cook chicken on a barbie without the outside being cremated.Here in Spain I use the barbie probably 5 days a week all year round.The thing is to not overcook-if you have to,cut the meat to see if it is cooked through and do not cook everything at too high a temperature.

The thing is to not overcook-if you have to,cut the meat to see if it is cooked through and do not cook everything at too high a temperature.

OMG! Is that the secret.

Cook food in kitchen, eat in dining room, go pub.

Or… go pub, eat at pub, drink at pub, carry on drinking at pub until they chuck everyone out. Then find a nice fire to sit beside, because that’s the right time for a fire, when it’s dark and a bit nippy.

Just stuck a beer can chicken on the Weber. Bloody delicious.
BBQ’s are amazing when done right

Food doesn’t burn on a barbie unless you let it,it tastes great,and lambchop I hate you,barbecued lamb,drool.

bbq’s are great. nuff said 😆

Have they got the barbie started yet?
Had an invite ?

Very much in the charcoal BBQs are ace camp, although the point of a gas one is a bit lost on me (apart from the social chat outside whilst it’s cooking element).

Bloody love a BBQ

OP is one of them free range vegetablists I reckon .

I think he’s got a bit of the green eyed monster going on. Neighbours are having nice food and drink, and he’s shovelling shite onto cabbages….

Absolutely hate them, burnt food, undercooked on the inside, some bloke dressed as a chef type,apron and tongs and a fly swatter turner type implement turning the food over and over so it burns all over,large amounts of smoke and horrible smells, and loud talking and bragging from all the neighbours of the person who invited you, usualy people youd avoid in a supermarket queue, and youre force to eat BURNT food, and cheap burgers with them.

Then therse all the waste of burnt and undercooked food, food poisioning and ,flies and more.