*Charcoal* BBQ/Grilling

Just in case anyone doesn't know, the Lidl bbq lighters are back. Got my usual two boxes for the summer this morning.

Have an 57cm Original Kettle and this has been very good. Much heavier duty than the Weber own brand one. VAT to come of so about €15 if you have prime.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B012VMKHCA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Spent the day in the kitchen on Sunday making smoked pork belly Gua Bao. I made a rub for the pork belly with chinese 5 spice in it and threw it on the bbq for the day. To go with it a bbq sauce made with hoi sin sauce and gochujang, carrots and cucumber pickled in rice wine vinegar and steamed bao buns which were what took most of the day to make - might go for frozen ones next time!

The pork belly was really excellent - cooked away at 250F(ish) until it got to about 195F in the meaty part - about 6.5 hours for a 1.5lb piece of pork belly, it stalled at 170F for a bit. It was melt in the mouth - definitely one of my favourite cuts to barbecue but only the odd time as it's so rich. Leftovers today went into fried rice, as is often the case.

laros wrote: »

So ... for anyone who is interested..... Binchotan charcoal is now available in Ireland .. But Yikes.... the price.... :eek::eek::eek:
https://greatnorthernlarder.com/collections/charcoal/products/kishu-white-hanmaru

Is that a joke?! Where are they going!!?

Hi, Has anyone tried one of these to convert their Kettle into a pizza oven?

https://www.amazon.com/Pizza-Oven-Weber-Style-Kettle-Grills/dp/B08TB34R7Y?_encoding=UTF8&dchild=1&keywords=kettlepizza%20kpb22&language=en_US&linkCode=sl1&linkId=af0ac85dab37ff17b71f00ed1dc4d36a&path=%2FPizza-Oven-Weber-Style-Kettle-Grills%2Fdp%2FB08TB34R7Y%3Fdchild%3D1&qid=1613583705&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&sr=8-14&tag=afcbusiness-20&useRedirectOnSuccess=1&

The chan chan man wrote: »

Looks good, doesn’t work

Be hard find a more conclusive 4 word review!

ArielAtom wrote: »

Cheers. Was tempted to purchase. Have you tried or is it just reviews?

Hi, I have a kettle bbq and I have a pizza oven. A friend of mind had one of these things and its poor.

The biggest difference between a pizza oven and a kettle (assuming you even could get a kettle bbq to pizza cooking temps with this gaping hole in it) is the fact that regardless of how many pizza gadgets you buy for it, a kettle bbq can’t provide the top flame which creates the beautiful leopard spotted neapolitan pizza crusts.

Will it cook pizza? Sure. Will it cook it well? Not at all. In fact I’d say you’d probably hold a better temperature by simply putting the lid on rather than using this yoke. Save the money and put it towards an Ooni or something.

Edit - I should say, if you’re after perfect pizza then don’t bother with this. If however you want the kids to have a bit of craic, then maybe its fun - and as you know, there’s no such thing as bad pizza!

laros wrote: »

Nope ... I dont think so.... https://tokyo-design-studio.com/en/tds-kishu-binchotan-white-charcoal--kitchenware-15kg-from-japan-item-no-9001-3022.html

Iv seen this creeping in a lot. €400 for a bag of charcoal, €4,500 for an outdoor 6 seater ,€150 for an 18inch high acer tree in my local super valu(which I can get for €20 online). It seems that a business will chance their arm to get the highest possible, if somebody is willing to pay it, then there’s a market. Will this charcoal make your meat taste better or cook better? So is there value for money, or is it a case of somebody thinking it must be better if it’s 20 times the price of the other satisfactory brand.

I say this with no experience with the stuff, but with absolute certainty, there’s absolutely no way you would even tell the difference between meat cooked on €400 charcoal vs that from the blue bag!

griffdaddy wrote: »

Anyone pick up any wood chunks recently either online or around South Dublin? Seem to be sold out most places. Looking for hickory and apple

I got some fairly recently from Great Northern Larder

Thanks guys, I'll take a look