Page 5 | To have a BBQ on Sunday - Yes or No?

BarbieQuestion · 2022-08-12T22:23:17+00:00

Yes I'm unreasonable for lighting a BBQ and cooking food or no I am not unreasonable? Just in a garden, no grass just hard standing.

longtompot · 13/08/2022 15:40

This is a Dorset & Wiltshire fire services view on having a bbq, which from reading it, I take to mean all bbqs. From the photos of the awful fire in Studlands nature reserve I would wait a weekend, or cook food indoors and eat outside, but I wouldn't bbq it.

www.dwfire.org.uk/news/red-fire-severity-alert-for-dorset-wiltshire/

ApplesandBunions · 13/08/2022 15:45

Hobbesmanc · 13/08/2022 08:51

Big birthday bbq planned here. We're in the North West. Didn't cross my mind and obviously not many others as the bbq food aisle in Sainsbury's was emptying fast last night.

I only read about the withdrawal from sale of disposable ones. Makes sense as they are more likely to be taken to parks, countryside etc.

TBF it is very different here, thanks to the big rainstorms recently. The grass is green and there's moisture in the ground. I wouldn't be lighting anything at all in a drought area.

Livpool · 13/08/2022 19:35

girlmom21 · 13/08/2022 08:05

@SmellyStinkyPong I'm not being thick. You're very rude though.

I agree - it isn't super dry where I am

Jobs4kids · 14/08/2022 07:10

We were going to have one yesterday but started having second thoughts after reading this but decided to go ahead because:
It would be on a paved patio in the middle of a wide garden with tall fences and green grass (no hose pipe ban yet)
It would be vanishly unlikely that a stray spark would rise up and drift over the fence to neighbours less green lawn
We were doing it around 6pm when the sun was going down
The bbq would be attended at all times
We'd bought the food!

However, we ended up cooking it indoors because it was too blimmin hot to have the energy to get it set up then stand over It! Also, couldn't escape the niggling worry of setting fire to next doors dry lawn no matter how unlikely (they are away) or being talked about on the local next door site!
It was fine!

However, someone did start setting off fireworks, now that IS stupid!

SpinCityBlues · 14/08/2022 07:33

Someone also set off fireworks last night near me, @Jobs4kids

Drought area. Absolutely bizarre selfishness. I hope the neighbours reported them or went nuts. (It stopped pretty quickly.)

Bubblebubblebah · 14/08/2022 08:33

You can at home. You have source of water if anything happens. The issue are bbqs in thewild areas (which is even said in links from fire services) because people are idiots who leave them and there isn't ready access to extinguish.

If you are not an idiot and can keep an eye on your in your yard including soarks if you do coal (we have gas so that's easier), I don't see who not. Many people in hot areas bbq throughout summer at home.

sunsetsandsandybeaches · 14/08/2022 09:22

Not everyone is in a dry area. We're north west and gardens are green as anything here.

midgetastic · 14/08/2022 09:24

Even at home the fire service request is not to use a disposable BBQ

PaddingtonBearStareAgain · 14/08/2022 11:44

You can at home. You have source of water if anything happens. The issue are bbqs in thewild areas (which is even said in links from fire services) because people are idiots who leave them and there isn't ready access to extinguish.

Not necessarily as has been said by others. Some brigades are saying no bbqs at all as they are getting called out to more and more house incidents too.

picklemewalnuts · 14/08/2022 12:09

Bubblebubblebah · 14/08/2022 08:33

You can at home. You have source of water if anything happens. The issue are bbqs in thewild areas (which is even said in links from fire services) because people are idiots who leave them and there isn't ready access to extinguish.

If you are not an idiot and can keep an eye on your in your yard including soarks if you do coal (we have gas so that's easier), I don't see who not. Many people in hot areas bbq throughout summer at home.

One of the fires in London started in a compost bin, and several neighbours were on hand attempting to put it out with their hosepipes. They failed.

Don't assume you can put it out, in these conditions.

stuntbubbles · 14/08/2022 12:11

sunsetsandsandybeaches · 14/08/2022 09:22

Not everyone is in a dry area. We're north west and gardens are green as anything here.

OP is in the south west, though. And presumably asked the question because she’s in a dry area. Were it pissing down in her garden it might not even have occurred to have a barbecue…