It's that time of year again, and Mrs. V has suggested that, as we have now finished the back garden, now would be a good time to build a BBQ. I had a quick look on the InterWeb, and found a couple of OK(ish) plans, but nothing that really took my fancy.

Any suggestions/advice anyone? Or links for a brick based BBQ plan?

Thanks,

John.

Personally, I don't really see the point of built-in barbecues. Portable ones are cheaper, less hassle, more manoeuvrable and you can get bigger or smaller ones quite easily.

I agree about the brick one - I have a gas one and it's like having a cooker in the garden. We've had 3 BBQs this year already.

I don't have a garden as I live in a flat but I have offered to do a BBQ in the lounge.

Mmmmm smokey.

I'm with Caz and Tom, we have a gas BBQ and it's excellent, easy to move, clean and put away.

We've already had two this year too

A bit more information. I'm not overly keen on gas models, as firstly I can taste the difference, and also I just prefer the whole "gathering wood for the fire" thing.

We have been looking at the portable ones, and that is still an option, but the boss lady told me to look into building a "proper" brick one, and who am I to argue?

"Strickland Propane, taste the meat, not the heat."

i thought the whole point of a barbecue was to cremate stuff to the point that you couldn't taste anything...

In which case...
http://www.gardeningdata.co.uk/construc ... rbeque.php

tada!

Cheers mate. By strange coincidence that was the only link that I had bothered bookmarking whilst searching this morning. I'll show the boss lady and get some feedback.

You could use Liquid Oxygen as a fuel

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Time ... HowTo.html

As a point of pedantry, oxygen is not a fuel.

Sorry, but it’s not a barbecue if it’s powered by gas, it’s an outside cooker. There’s no substitute for lighting the coals, opening a beer and relaxing for the hour or so it takes before the barbecue is ready. And the flavour with charcoal, as John_Vella said, is unbeatable.

Barbecuing is all about patience.

B&Q do a kit of parts with a bit of paper to describe how to do the brick part (you get and choose your own bricks of course). A few other places on the web seem to have the same/similar. I used the B&Q kit last summer and given my very elementary brick laying skills it doesn't look so bad and it works fine. Parts seem well enough made.

Oh and particularly as I'm tall I really appreciate its height compared to gas BBQ's.

Richard.

Thanks Richard, I'll try and take a trip out to B&Q during the weekend, (health permitting - god, I sound like an old man!) and have a look.