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I have used a table top(on the ground) gas barby pluged into gas point on M/H for years. I remember barby a test in one of the M/H magersines a few years back, they compared all types including cadak, and the Table top came out best. I think it was a royal same as I have, but it is obvious that it is a personal choice.
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It definitely has to be charcoal for me and you can't beat the Cobb. Takes 25-30mins to heat up, you only use 6 briquettes of charcoal and you can cook a whole joint on it. You can put veggies in the moat around the coals or just put wine in the moat and the meat is so tender. We love ours.
Lesley
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If I don't use charcoal, I prefer to call it Al-Fresco-Cooking and use a similar set-up to Russell. True you do not get the charcoal flavouring but you cannot beat cooking in the open air, plus there is always a bottle of wine open (except when cooking breakfast)
Bill
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charcoal for me, and I like to use the disposable ones no mess to clean up at the end.
As said previously if you let them come up to temperature properly and the coals are nice and white no problems cooking anything on them.
My local Sainsburys were selling theirs off at the end of the summer last year and I bought a dozen of them, 40p each.
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I'm one of those to whom the words 'gas' and 'barbecue' are mutually incompatible. At best, they're a gas cooker that you can use outside.
So....guess what I voted for! It has to be charcoal, the fuss, the waiting, the smell, the smoke, the 'is there enough heat left to do these steaks?' are all part of the magic.
I use a Weber portable barbecue which tucks neatly in one of the bed boxes when not needed, and can sit either on the heat-proof top of our outdoor table or on a couple of thermalite breeze blocks when I can't be bothered to get the table out.
The food always tastes great, I love using it, and will never surrender to the false charms of a gas so-called barbecue. So there!
(Agree that those disposable ones are rubbish though. Even worse than gas).
I am totally with you on this Mike. There is only one reason to use a gas cooker ooops I mean the so called BBQs and that is if you don't have full cooking facilities in the van. I have been cooking with charcoal since the late 60s. I tried a gas "barbie" once, and once only, and threw it away. I currently have a Cobb, a portable suitcase one and a brick build one in the garden and nothing in the world will convince me gas is better. You forgot a couple of things, charcoal cooking gives you more time to socialise and you can buy charcoal anywhere where as if you run out of gas you could find yourself searching for a source.
Gas barbies are either for lazy people or those in a hurry to watch telle!
I'll go and hide now
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Gas barbies are either for lazy people or those in a hurry to watch telle!
I'll go and hide now
peedee
I'll have you know that we don't have a telle with us!! And, and, what's more, I know where YOU live - just north of London. I know where that is! Look out - I'm on my way.
I bet you're scared now!!
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I'm one of those to whom the words 'gas' and 'barbecue' are mutually incompatible. At best, they're a gas cooker that you can use outside.
So....guess what I voted for! It has to be charcoal, the fuss, the waiting, the smell, the smoke, the 'is there enough heat left to do these steaks?' are all part of the magic.
I use a Weber portable barbecue which tucks neatly in one of the bed boxes when not needed, and can sit either on the heat-proof top of our outdoor table or on a couple of thermalite breeze blocks when I can't be bothered to get the table out.
The food always tastes great, I love using it, and will never surrender to the false charms of a gas so-called barbecue. So there!
(Agree that those disposable ones are rubbish though. Even worse than gas).
I am totally with you on this Mike. There is only one reason to use a gas cooker ooops I mean the so called BBQs and that is if you don't have full cooking facilities in the van. I have been cooking with charcoal since the late 60s. I tried a gas "barbie" once, and once only, and threw it away. I currently have a Cobb, a portable suitcase one and a brick build one in the garden and nothing in the world will convince me gas is better. You forgot a couple of things, charcoal cooking gives you more time to socialise and you can buy charcoal anywhere where as if you run out of gas you could find yourself searching for a source.
Gas barbies are either for lazy people or those in a hurry to watch telle!
I'll go and hide now
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Depends what you mean by 'full cooking facilities'.
We have no oven, but lots of Hymers etc don't have ovens.
We have no grill, but people with grills tell me that they're all c**p anyway.
We do have 3 gas burners but you're hard put to it to get more than 2 pans in the space.
We do have a Remoska which is brilliant (and don't let's start the usual 'but the Bravoska's better' routine plllllllease).
We don't have a barbecue on board cos in a 15ft 11ins long van somethings gotta give.
Toying with the idea of a small under van gas tank with a plug in gas connector. That'd free up the current gas cylinder cupboard to store the barbie. Brilliant!
Apart from lashing a waterproof bag of charcoal under the van and stashing the barbie down the Thetford I can't see a neater solution.
Andy
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