The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the garden looks just right for a bar b que. So what next? Should we just race ahead without any further thought and make the most of the weather before it disappears? I think not. As someone who loves bar b ques but is terrified of fire I’ll give you my thoughts on the matter. Firstly you have a choice in the type of bar be que that you buy. There is a wide range of units that either run on gas or where you add bar b que charcoal bricks and light these, obviously the price of these depends on which one you buy! The other way is to use a disposable bar b que, which cost about £2 for the small ones and about £5 ...  Read the complete review

Barbecues are a tasty summer tradition but there is a high risk of somebody getting food poisoning if you don't handle and cook the food properly. There are creepy, crawling bacteria on your hands, on food, all over unwashed cooking utensils and they love the sunshine and warm temperatures. These are perfect conditions for a bacteria population explosion. Most of these bugs are harmless but some can give you food poisoning, or something much worse! The main cause of food contamination apart fromthe obvious hygeine ones is that food is cooked on a heat so fierce that the outside is burned and the inside is undercooked. So how do ...  Read the complete review

Whilst BBQ's are great outdoor fun, and an ideal excuse for a few beers they tend to bring out the chef in the most inept cooks, particularly me. Food safety in it's preparation does sometimes get overlooked. In our hurry to get everyone's plate full the thorough cooking of meat sometimes doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's difficult to guage when the coals have reached temperature and meat that looks cooked quite often isn't cooked through. A friend of ours had a couple of nights off work due to a dodgy BBQ burger, I wasn't responsible for that one though. Index have started to sell a very usefull electronic ...  Read the complete review

Last night me and my mum and her man freind had a barbecue in the garden and it was really good we had chicken drumsticks and sausages and beef burgers which i know how to cook and sweetcorn and jacket potato What you do is to light the fire lighter and when it is a light you are to add some charcoal and when the flame dies down and the charcoal is to go white then you can start to cook the food that you have got to cook I got the barbecue as a gift from argos and i carried it home with me and i set it up in the garden just buy the shed i didnot light the barbecue in case i burn the grass so my mums man freind lit it for us and we all sat in the garden to eat our ...  Read the complete review

B&Q barbecue Item no: 25125917 58cm(23`) A brilliant round and simple item. I had never used a barbecue before it was very well instructed so I never had any trouble to start cooking. The first 5 KG bag of charcoal was lit and there is a grate for air and the burnt coal to settle in. There were three height levels so if the heat was getting low it could be lowered so the food was cooked properly. After about 20 minutes the right cooking temp was spot on, I was able to cook approximately 20/5`burgers at one time and they were all cooked very equal in temp, so there was no risk of them being under cooked. You can also cook ...  Read the complete review