Lo all,
Been browsing the forums for a few weeks now and thought I’d join and say hello.
I’ve been a BBQ fan for years, started off in my late teens with a brick built HomeBase kit in 1988. That lasted a year and I then switched to the horizontal oil drum route. That one lasted 14 years, several new drums, frames, grills etc but it was still the same barbee! (Almost used a galvanised grill once, until my old man informed me that it gives off arsenic when you heat it up!)
Most of the time I was grilling on direct heat but in later years I stacked the coals to one side and cooked chickens on the other side with lid closed. This was in the days before tinternet, I thought I’d invented something new...
I finally succumbed to pressure from ‘er in doors’... and the slow decline in people to invite round for parties, and purchased a cheap Weber clone from BnQ in 2002. I expected it to last a year but the bloody thing would not fall apart.
So against my old philosophy of not replacing a bbq till I can see the floor through a large hole in the bottom of it, I have gone and bought a ProQ Excel 20. The Weber clone will be refurbished and retired to the car park at work!
The ProQ arrived last week but tonight’s the first time I’ve had the chance to put it together and put a fire in the hold (just to fire it off, no food yet).
I’ll let you know how I get on.
Jayson