Should disposable BBQs be banned?

[Auburngal]

Last year, many retailers, including mine stopped selling disposable BBQs due to the dry and extremely hot weather. I'm not a fan on disposable BBQs

They should be banned as:

1. People have them in public parks and beaches which isn't allowed, unless the park has a designated BBQ area. Because of this, the ground is charred (in parks) and people leave the rubbish behind - including food. As my fellow litter wombles have found.
2. They are a fire hazard
3. People are injured by buried disposable BBQs on beaches.

Why should they be banned because some wankers do not use/dispose of them in an appropriate manner.
Yet again, the majority suffer for the few. But carry on evangelising at the wrong people

I don't think lack of access to disposable barbecues could ever be described as suffering.

You can't compare an oven to a bbq, they're two different things! Pretty lame party, too, just putting sausages in the oven😭

You are being facetious.
You know what I mean.
But here, have a little round of applause for your devastatingly witty reply 👏👏👏👏

It is such a shame really that they have got such a bad reputation because of idiots who use them irresponsible and inconsideretely.

We have used them occasionally in years gone by but you have to use your common sense and plan appropriately. Obviously you choose your site so there is no fire risk and not too many people around who might object yo smoke and smells. We usually like a near deserted beach or a large rock somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Definitely not in the middle of a heatwave when the ground is like tinder.

And afterwards put the BBQ out completely and put it in a bag together with all the other rubbish to take home. We left no trace.

The few we did were great fun and we did no harm. Unfortunately they are so frowned on now we probably won't do it again.

Except in elderly FILs garden because he likes the idea of a BBQ but doesn't own one so sometimes we take a disposable there so we can have one together.

If someone is stupid enough to do that then, Darwin's Law

I see I've touched a nerve.

But just how much are disposable BBQs part of your life that you couldn't give them up for the greater good considering how much damage they do?

When I was on holiday in Bournemouth last summer there were instructions to leave used BBQs next to the bins. There was also a time limit of when you could have BBQs. So presumably they are allowed?

All the reasons you listed are about people being inconsiderate and dumb. Nothing wrong with the BBQs; it’s a user fault.

No they're shouldn't. I find them really handy. I couldn't manage the cleaning and care of a proper bbq.

Exactly my point. If you can't deal with them safely, don't buy them 🙂.

If you'd rather use something other than a disposable - I have a bucket BBQ. Small, portable and reusable!

People just don’t seem to be intelligent enough to understand how to use them so yes they need banning.

Yesterday some twit put their disposable bbq in the bin at Harlyn. The fire brigade attended but I would imagine that the culprit was long gone and so will never learn.

In my city we have brick BBQs for the public to use.

I saw piles of them last summer in supermarkets.

How much damage they CAN do (in the wrong hands). You talk as if disposable bbq’s are staging an uprising!

I’m not sure I agree with banning them, they’re useful for camping or having a bbq when you haven’t got a proper one but I’d sign a petition to ban the type of imbecile who uses a bbq in a bone dry forest or leaves them on a beach but I do appreciate that’d be harder to implement.

@Puppuccino You’re welcome to my lame parties any time. I can guarantee sausages and chicken cooked to perfection and consumed al fresco.

I saw one where the bright sparks used an upturned plastic supermarket bread tray to put their bbqs on. Well that left a bit of a mess as anyone with the slightest understanding of the melting properties of plastic will understand.

We bought a disposable BBQ once and never again.

Way back in late 90s, when my bf (now dh) and I were visiting his papa, who lived nearly 2hrs away, we took one as previously he had mentioned not having had a bbq for years and we thought it would be a good solution. We obviously were young and stupid and never thought it through fully.

It was a pain in the arse to cool down and dispose of as we didn't want to leave with his elderly papa to deal with. And also crap to cook on so essentially a bad idea all round.

I cannot think of a single way that they could be disposed of safely out in public. They can reignite several hours later after drying out. It is irresponsible to risk putting in a public bin, and idiotic take in a car too, so it is a big no and ban them for me.

There have been several accidents with people getting burns to feet after stepping on disposable barbecues buried on beaches. Horrifying. Here ‘s one
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Along with those Chinese lanterns. They are polluting somewhere, farmland, oceans.

Honestly they are really not that difficult to cool down fairly quickly. When we have used one we either plan to use it near a large body of water, e.g. the sea, or we take water with us.

When you have finished cooking you pour water all over it and it cools pretty quick. We have never had any difficulty in cooling them down enough to put in a bin bag to take home with us.

Yes, people are clearly too stupid to be allowed them, so they should be banned.

I have a dinky little folding barbecue that I take if I'm ever having a barbecue on a beach or anywhere. And I take a bottle of water to douse the hot charcoal after it's been used.