Page 4 | I thought we agreed BBQs were a bad idea.

Shatteredallthetimelately · Yesterday 20:12

SomaTaim · Yesterday 19:34

A bbq is fine!
A disposable one on the grass is not.

Or as in our local nature park the wooden tables..

Pinkchickenwine · Yesterday 20:15

Another76543 · Yesterday 18:54

I’m fairly sure that using a gas hob indoors is safer than using a charcoal BBQ surrounded by parched lawn at the moment. As I said, it’s about common sense.

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How many wild fires have been caused by a bbq in a garden I wonder?

LittleBearPad · Yesterday 20:17

AndyKitten · Yesterday 20:07

It was for any activity that might start a fire, disposable barbecues included, but not only disposables.

Certain MNers are always keen to tell you a dishwasher or washing machine shouldn’t be left unattended overnight or whilst out because they can cause fires. Are they also included in your ban?

summater · Yesterday 20:22

Topseyt123 · Yesterday 20:10

So can any type of cooking if you don't use common sense or you get something wrong.

Perhaps we should all stop bothering to cook because it might cause a fire.

I have a gas barbie which is on the concrete patio. It would be pretty safe as it is well away from dry grass, vegetation or the wooden sheds and fence. The main reason I am not using it at the moment is because of the extreme heat we have been having, meaning that I don't want it making me even hotter and I can't be arsed with it.

Disposable barbies were the ones specifically mentioned in the alert. They are the biggest danger because people tend to put them down directly on the tinder dry grass and then leave them/not douse them properly. That makes total sense and I believe they have been withdrawn from sale.

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We haven't used our gas barbecue either because it's been to hot to stand over a hot stove in the sun, hoping to use it in the next couple of weeks as it cools down

AndyKitten · Yesterday 20:34

LittleBearPad · Yesterday 20:17

Certain MNers are always keen to tell you a dishwasher or washing machine shouldn’t be left unattended overnight or whilst out because they can cause fires. Are they also included in your ban?

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My ban?

Who do you think I am?

Andy Burnham?

Goatsarebest · Yesterday 20:40

Raptors · Yesterday 18:12

I don't see the OP saying they are banned. I just see her sensibly saying a BBQ in this weather is a bad idea. Can't see why that's such an unreasonable statement.

Agree. We don't need to be told everything we should or should not do. There is a risk, however small, and we've seen the consequences when it does go wrong. Cooking outside isn't such an important life event that you need to do it in the current situation. Just don't do it and then there is no risk.

carebearhairbear · Yesterday 20:42

Goatsarebest · Yesterday 20:40

Agree. We don't need to be told everything we should or should not do. There is a risk, however small, and we've seen the consequences when it does go wrong. Cooking outside isn't such an important life event that you need to do it in the current situation. Just don't do it and then there is no risk.

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It's not a bad idea as long as you risk assess appropriately and use your BBQ responsibly.

Goatsarebest · Yesterday 20:42

Pinkchickenwine · Yesterday 20:15

How many wild fires have been caused by a bbq in a garden I wonder?

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We're in unprecedented times with regard to fire risks. What has or hasn't happened before is not relevant.

luckylavender · Yesterday 20:44

Tomselleckhaskindeyes · Yesterday 17:45

I thought it was the disposable bbq's?

It’s not that sensible to use any BBQ currently

bananaobama · Yesterday 20:52

people have bbqs at the weekends.

disposable ones in the park/on grass = dangerous

normal bbq in the garden = still as low
risk as ever . Especially if on the patio

Olive123456 · Yesterday 20:53

Raptors · Yesterday 18:35

Not sure legally as I said just idly wondering. My argument was if the house caught alight I don't think you'd have much choice but to contact your insurance.

I think there would be a case for reckless behaviour even if it wasn't a disposable BBQ given how dry everything is at present due to the lack of rain. They could hardly argue they hadn't noticed especially with the alert we all received.

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I got no alert. Not sure why though, it's a new phone so it's not like i'd got round to turning them off in settings. Are we still ok for garden fires?

bananaobama · Yesterday 20:56

summater · Yesterday 19:23

People have been told not to report neighbours for having bbqs as the emergency services have been inundated by nosy idiots calling 999

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Feels like covid again

YoniWheretheSunDontShine · Yesterday 21:00

@bananaobama we have a gas bbq I just wouldn't go near it right now even though it's on a patio.

BitOutOfPractice · Yesterday 21:01

I mean the advice was about disposable BBQs but I don’t think I’d bother right now. It’s not as if there hasn’t been plenty of opportunity to bbq in the last 6 weeks is it?

Anyahyacinth · Yesterday 21:05

Tomselleckhaskindeyes · Yesterday 17:45

I thought it was the disposable bbq's?

Every TV interview with anyone from the fire service pleads no outdoor fires

SeaAndSangria · Yesterday 21:09

Tomselleckhaskindeyes · Yesterday 17:45

I thought it was the disposable bbq's?

Same, I thought it was just the disposable BBQs? As far as I know you can still fire a built in one on your concrete patio 😕
(For clarity, I don't have one, just saying my understanding on the matter. We usually use disposable BBQs as not much room for a "proper" one and they're handy.)
Sad that they have to be banned in this weather but completely understand why - far too many numpties/lazy fecks who drag them off camping or wherever and don't bother to clear up after themselves or use them properly so the ground is hot after they've gone home! 😡

Shatteredallthetimelately · Yesterday 21:54

For those that didn’t get the message.

Not sure how long it'll take for the attached photo to be approved.

I thought we agreed BBQs were a bad idea.

Coconutter24 · Yesterday 22:38

Topseyt123 · Yesterday 20:10

So can any type of cooking if you don't use common sense or you get something wrong.

Perhaps we should all stop bothering to cook because it might cause a fire.

I have a gas barbie which is on the concrete patio. It would be pretty safe as it is well away from dry grass, vegetation or the wooden sheds and fence. The main reason I am not using it at the moment is because of the extreme heat we have been having, meaning that I don't want it making me even hotter and I can't be arsed with it.

Disposable barbies were the ones specifically mentioned in the alert. They are the biggest danger because people tend to put them down directly on the tinder dry grass and then leave them/not douse them properly. That makes total sense and I believe they have been withdrawn from sale.

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Yes a fire could start whilst you’re cooking inside but cooking outside with a flame near dry grass is obviously more of a risk isn’t it. It said any activity, yes it mentioned disposal bbqs, fire pits and a couple of other things as examples but it still means any activity with the risk.

Periperi2025 · Yesterday 22:40

Coconutter24 · Yesterday 22:38

Yes a fire could start whilst you’re cooking inside but cooking outside with a flame near dry grass is obviously more of a risk isn’t it. It said any activity, yes it mentioned disposal bbqs, fire pits and a couple of other things as examples but it still means any activity with the risk.

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It's about recklessness, it's not reckless to cook whilst sober in your kitchen with the tiny chance of something going wrong, it is normal human beahiour and a normal level of risk we take to live out life.

If you put the chip pan on whilst pissed, and killed the family in the flat upstairs, and somehow survived yourself, then I think a custodial sentence would be likely.

ILoveAGingerCat · Yesterday 22:41

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

Coconutter24 · Yesterday 22:47

Periperi2025 · Yesterday 22:40

It's about recklessness, it's not reckless to cook whilst sober in your kitchen with the tiny chance of something going wrong, it is normal human beahiour and a normal level of risk we take to live out life.

If you put the chip pan on whilst pissed, and killed the family in the flat upstairs, and somehow survived yourself, then I think a custodial sentence would be likely.

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It’s incase people are careless with the disposal of them.

In the case of killing someone with a chip pan then yes you’d probably go to prison because that would be manslaughter

RubbySlockaWithACherryONtop · Yesterday 23:46

Magenta82 · Yesterday 17:36

DD4 is going through a bit of a deep sleeping wetting the bed phase, we were busy today so I put 2 sets of her sheets on a long eco wash and stuck them on the line when we got back.

Half an hour later the whole garden is white, crazy amounts of smoke from next door and the worst smell of ligher fluid I've ever encountered.

I'm not sure how I'm going to get the waterproof sheets dry and I'm worried the whole street is about to go up in flames!

Takes just a spark for it to all go up in flames...

maxslice · Today 01:27

Backedoffhackedoff · Yesterday 18:15

Why is your garden white?

Smoke?