*Charcoal* BBQ/Grilling

agreed.

when I do spare ribs, I’d typically do 2.5-1.5-0.5. 4.5 hours total

just wondering if anyone here has thied the frozen ribs out of Musgraves, think they are Spanish. They have 2 sizes on offer the largest which are massive.

Can you throw up a photo in the morning too please? Thanks

Did a brisket only once and in no rush to go again

I wish I saw this earlier, the brisket was devoured. I pulled it at 9am, after rotating it every 3 hours, and finished in the oven, but a I made a small boo-boo. My tired ass automatically put it to 180c for 30 mins before I realised my mistake.. So some of the flat was a little dry. The Point was amazing and tender and an entire brisket was gone in about an hour between 10 people Just mustard and some Salt/Pepper + a small amount of some Texas rub I had left over (store bought). 16 hours cook in total including the last 4 hours in the oven. Used Weber Master Touch 57cm, with the snake method and some whiskey barrel chunks. 8/10. Would have been 10 if the part of the flat wasn't dry, but hey that's why they invented bbq sauce.

Pulled brisket??

I did wonder if that was it but I always marvel at people's love for "pulled" meat.

There was a bbq place in Cork (gone now) that served its brisket pulled, much to the horror of my American pal!

First cook this afternoon with the Weber lump wood I ordered recently. I think the briquettes are great so figured I’d throw in a few bags with my latest order. It was very small when I tipped it out. A lot of it was like little nuggets of coal. The biggest bits were less than the size of my hand. It d did fine cooking a few burgers and roasted potatoes and vegetable but was starting to loose oomph after about an hour. Having filled a full chimney starter it had shrunk down to about 4/5 full after the coals lighted. It doesn’t seem to be a patch on the restaurant grade blue bag lump wood charcoal I had last summer. Still have some bags of that off site so I’ll grab one I think. If I’d picked up a generic brand somewhere fir a few quid I probably wouldn’t complain but expect more from Weber.

While in on the subject of sub par BBQ products, I ordered a few bags of these Big K starter cubes last year.

They’re pretty hard to light. At one point I got them lit on a breezy day, left fur a bit, cane back after 20 minutes to cold coal. They’d gone out. They seem like good value but aren’t worth it at all.

I use lidl firelighters, never fail

had some good bbq this weekend

Rotisserie Beef neck

and some rib eye, sausages and pork chops from by local butcher

Very nice. Did you bookend the beef with a piece of onion or something? Never done a charcoal rotisserie but very interested

some good looking ribs you have/had there, where did you get them from? Every time im looking for some, they are skinny as hell with no meat what so ever

i dont see any ribs 🤣🫣

The GA is very small. You’d be limited for space with bigger cuts I think. I’d go the 47cm kettle route if you want to branch out. The GA is very portable and great for camping or the beach or whatever. If that’s nite inerrant to you, go for tge GA but I think the kettle is probably the better choice imho.

second that. You better save and buy large than regret later. Original Kettle e5730 with ash catcher

Get both 😉

Well get the GA, and may as well get the 57 at that point

Go big. Good quality material like the kettle will still be good on charcoal when you master the vents. I got the 57cm smokey mountain because the other one was out of stock. Don't regret it at all when it comes to grill area, better looking at it than looking for it.