People who are doing it WRONG

[GloGirl]

My Dad loves to talk about how he enjoys a good barbecue in this weather, once he even invited a lot of family round for one.

His version of a BBQ is a George Formby grill (natch), and in nice weather he plugs it in outside to cook a burger or sausage on. He is quite evangelical about how clever it is to barbecue that way.

It gives me the gritted teeth rage.

Anyone else who is doing it ALL WRONG? Offload here

say that folks from Texas to Florida to North Carolina are doing it wrong when it comes to barbecueing.
just because many people do something does something doesn't make it correct.

and anyway I thought they called it "the grill", that was how all our campsites that provided them refered to them "stick on the grill will be lovely"

Fraggle I fear she'll be offering Weetabix as crudités with Marmite as a dip.

Grilling is what people in the UK and Australia do, and America too. It is quickly cooking meat over open flames.

Barbeceuing is "low and slow." You cook meat at a low temperature for hours over open flames.

I used to have a George Forman grill but got rid of it as it just never got hot enough for my liking, but am seriously rethinking and getting a George Formby. I feel it would have the added extras I missed last time

DH does not understand the concept of cheese on toast.

When left to his own devices, he puts ketchup on bread, covers it with cheese, and microwaves it. He calls this cheese on toast.

After my attempted intervention, he will make me cheese on toast by toasting one side of the bread, then putting the cheese on the already toasted side and putting it back under the grill. He claims this is cheese on toast because with my proper way, the cheese is technically on bread, not cheese.

Whattodo- totally agree!!

OH likes barbecuing, but everyone has to wait until he has cooked absolutely everything until they can eat anything. This is Wrong.

When left to his own devices, he puts ketchup on bread, covers it with cheese, and microwaves it. He calls this cheese on toast.

When you first witnessed this atrocity you should have shaken his hand, thanked him for his time, and exited his life for good.

DS eats satsumas dipped in salad cream and ketchup. Fire oranges he calls them!

DH stands poking his coals saying he's doing it right, whilst doing up his rain Mac and putting up his extra large brolly.

Weirdos the males in our house.

I have been reminded I have known multiple people who have dipped chips into chocolate mousse.

Obviously I killed them all.

Brushing your teeth FIRST is correct... according to my dentist.

" Brushing before breakfast removes the bacterial plaque from your teeth before it has time to metabolise any food, cutting down acid production, enamel erosion and tooth decay"

Thanks Dame!

ExDH used to insist we ate chilli con carne with mashed potato instead of rice. We also had mashed potato with salad.

However his finest hour was refusing to let me buy foods such as mange tout or couscous on the basis that they were "left wing".

As I said, he is now an ex.

I live where everyone has a water cooler with hot water tap... tea made with 70degree water. Yuck

"Americans' don't tend to use kettles - their wimpy 110V power supply means it takes forever to boil a kettle"
No, it really doesn't. Certainly no longer than it takes to boil it in the microwave.

"I have been reminded I have known multiple people who have dipped chips into chocolate mousse.

Obviously I killed them all."
Sensible. They're much better dipped in hot fudge sauce.

Sour cream and chive pretzels are lovely dipped into a chocolate fountain.

I have vinegar on my baked beans.

My ex husband used to have a dish of bread soaked in milk

Were you married to a stray hedgehog?

Fraggel, l ll be first up for the firing line then! Always done bras this way, cannot hook up the back otherwise. Im beginning to think i have dyslexia as so many things i cant do! I do cereal correctly, so there is hope...!

Whoever designed London buses to have no air conditioning and no windows and whoever approved this design - you are all doing it WRONG!

Vinegar on cabbage yum
I used to work with a girl who put boiled wtare on her weetabix then milk,
I then worked with her sister who did the same boak
my dh loves cheese and jam sandwiches and isists on pineapple and a fried egg on gammon ? I blame the MIL

water obvs

The key ingredient in real barbecue is wood smoke. If you don't have smoke, you don't have barbecue. Low and slow over wood smoke (and indirect heat), preferably a whole hog cooked in a pit in the ground, North Carolina style. Cooking anything on a gas grill or fast cooking on a charcoal grill is just grilling or as we say in the Southern US, a "cook-out."

I'm with the vinegar on cabbage.

I don't put butter on cold sandwiches (cheese, ham, etc) though I do butter a hot sandwich (sausage, bacon, fish finger).

My grandpa used to put cream and jam on yorkshire puddings. He was wrong.

Lois my DP does that. And a plate with milk, bread chunks, cheese slices and then under the grill til the milk forms a skin