The BBQ Site

Are you like me and love the whole BBQing process, you can’t beat it on a summers evening. There can however be times when you are tearing your hair out in frustration.

I guess I’m fairly new to the whole BBQing process, the other week the family were round and I was trying to cook up some burgers and kebabs. 2.5 hours later the charcoal was just about ready to cook on. Call me proud but that didn’t look professional. Still we had fun.

So after this little embarassment a better way was needed. So I did some digging on the internet. An found the answer.

A chimney starter, available from most garden centres and hardware stores, basically it is a steel tube with holes around the bottom, a mesh part way up the tube and a handle. Fill the top of the tube with charcoal and light a fire in the bottom courtesy of some rolled up newspaper, or a couple of firestarter cubes.

In about 20 mins the coals should be about ready. The heat rises through the chimney lighting all the coals. The beauty of using a chimney is that all the coals lit giving an even heat in the grill.

Pick a good size chimney as you can always part fill it, getting one that is too small and you have to use it 2-3 times to fill your BBQ.

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