'Let's have a BBQ ' said no woman ever!

[Lifewithasixyearold]

No it isnt easier, no it's not less work and no DH you don't actually do anything like all of it!
Fuck me, it's 160 degrees out there, my rage is hotter than the damn BBQ which wasn't lit in time of course and naturally I have started things in the oven because when the BBQ does get going it will incinerate the outside of everything and leave a lovely warm core of pure food poisoning within...
AIBU surely we could get them banned, smoke, emissions or something??

We had one tonight. When I arrived home from work, it was already lit, the salad was prepared, the meat was marinated and my beer was chilled.

Afterwards, the teens filled the dishwasher.

Awesome! 😎

Disposable BBQ on the beach is nice, few ready cooked sausages just to warm up and other bits and bobs followed by toasted marshmallows. What's not to like? It doesn't have to be a major event!

I quite like going to other people's bbqs but they seem an almighty faff. We have the age old disagreement between men& women about the fact that the womenfolk want a whole meal in one go whereas the men want to just eat one thing then cook another thing to eat etc.

I don't think I'd enjoy the food any less if I'd cooked it in the kitchen and taken it outside to eat.
They just seem a bit of a pointless lengthy way of heating good up!

I do like drinking cider tho, but you don't need a BBQ for that.

I love BBQs but have grown up with them in a hot country. Food should never be cooked in oven first as that ruins the flavour. If the food is butnt outside and raw inside you are doing it wrong, mainly putting the food on a too hot barbie.

You need to be able to hold your open hand close to the coals, wood for a count of 10 before it's cool enough to put meat. If you can't hold your hand just over the barbecue grid ( about a thumbs length) for 10 seconds then the Barbie is too hot for food.

If you barbecue properly the food is the best ever.

If you don't tolerate heat well make it 2 thumbs lengths and the barbie must not be fool but bearable for only 10 seconds no longer.. it's an art

What is the point of a gas BBQ?! They are fundamentally wrong

They are instant and cheaper to run if you use them throughout the year. No difference in flavour at all of you have one with lava rocks.

Love bbqs! Super easy and we do loads so 2 days worth of dinner done!

yabu! I love a BBQ, v easy and delicious

We've just had steak and salad ,love eating outside on a warm evening.

Delegate ruthlessly!

Two salads, one normal olive oil and salt, the other with rice and mayo. (Do them the day before.)

Courgettes, aubergines in foil, (job for the kids)

Butterflied chicken in a nice marinade, tuna, monkfish. (Job for your best friend)

Don't bother with kebabs, just roast a joint in the oven and then finish it off on the bbq. (Job for the men)

Leave out a pile of burgers and sausages, if people want them, let them do it themselves. (Teenage boys, if at hand, are perfect for that job)

Blitz a bag of Iceland mixed berries with vanilla ice cream and dollop it all on shop bought meringues for pudding. (delegate the dolloping to the kids too).

When everyone takes part in a bbq it is more fun.

I hope it goes well!

I am with everyone who hates a bbq , unnecessary danger to children, more work for me as husband will only put the bbq on and I will be the one back and forward with food from the kitchen! No get all done in the oven in half hour and sit down and relax with a glass of wine

Haven't RTFT but I like it when OH does a BBQ. He prepares all the skewers, puts potatoes in foil on there, makes a salad. All I have to do is make some sweetcorn and my own salad (I hate raw onion and he loves it so separate salads).

Just finished eating and he's taken in most of plates etc and I'll go and cut watermelon. So I like it!!

Gas BBQs are the future. It's just like having an extra outdoor hob/oven.

You can put a whole fish on there, close the lid and come back when it's cooked.

I used to hate BBQs before.

I'm with you op! Really don't like it and also end up oven cooking stuff then finishing on the bbq once the thing has finally got going. Then the waiting and then the cleaning.

No thanks-al fresco takeaway with wine if you really want to make it easy please OH

Unnecessary danger to children!??? Only if they're not being looked after properly....

A real humanbeing - pretty much everyone is Australia has a gas BBQ and we are pretty good at BBQ's you'd have to say so there must be something in it!

Yeah I know they're popular. I only bbq a few times over the summer (UK) though and with gas I miss the smell and whole ritual of lighting it and waiting for the coals to settle (childhood memories).

The food tastes somehow better to me too. I'm always a bit surprised when I go to a BBQ and half the meet is under the kitchen grill.

YANBU. My DH loves BBQ's. Says that "all I need to do is rest". Fuck I do. I need to prepare the salads, get the sauces, buy the burger buns because he forgot, oh and the cheese. He sticks meat on the grill and says that he has cooked. I remember one time his mates were coming over (again) and he didn't think to buy anything by way of sides or condiments, so apparently they were going to sit in the garden eating dry meat. It's a fucking faff.

Me and hubby love a good bbq. I do the cooking and enjoy it. I love eating outdoors and whenever the weather is good we will do picnics bbqs and campfire cooking. We even had a bbq for our wedding meal. Agree with other posts, done properly there's no risk of food poisoning.

Sorry OP but I LOVE a bbq! I'm a single woman and often have them. And if my neighours have one just the fabulous smell alone (not even eating the food) is wonderful.
Get your DH to help with the prep (a lot) more, get some chilled wine down you and enjoy :-) xx

YANB that U!! I find BBQ annoying as I'll say to DH we have loads of burgers and sausages and bread and salad so let's keep it simple and he'll disappear to the supermarket and come back with ribs and steak and chicken that requires marinating!
And by then our guests will have drunk so much that shovelling a burger in is the welcome thing!!

Sorry May09Bump, cooking on gas is NOT a proper bbq - xx :-)