Barbecue Season Is In Full Swing!
HERE COMES THE SUN
AND THE BARBECUE SEASON IS IN FULL SWING!
Unless you’re one of those die-hards who grill all year ‘round the chances are you’ve been firing up the barbecue and looking forward to a whole summer of savoury burgers, succulent steaks, and perfectly grilled veggies. About 273 million are expected to be fired up in the UK this summer. Grilling has brought families and communities together since the first humans cooked food over a fire about 1.8 million years ago. In 2009, researchers even found mammoth ribs in a 4-ft. cooking pit that appeared to date back to 29,000 B.C. The area was also covered with conch shells, which made archaeologists wonder whether the barbecue had been a “surf-and-turf” meal.
The word “barbecue” came into English via 16th century Spanish explorers, who adopted the term from the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, to whom the barbacoa was a grating of green wood upon which strips of meat were placed to cook or to dry over a slow fire.
USEFUL TIPS
Lighting your grill: a great little trick is to simply scrunch up a piece of paper towel, 
cover in vegetable oil and then light in the middle of your coals. It burns hotter and longer this way and will kick start your coals.
Cooking meats: remember each cut needs to be cooked differently. Generally, the higher the fat content the higher the initial heat to cook it.
Cleaning the grill: Spray with vinegar, leave for about five minutes and then scrub clean with some scrunched-up foil. Easiest of all, soak a grill in a basin for around an hour. Rinse off and it will be good as new.
BBQ BLUNDERS
A study of more than 2,000 adults by Aldi discovered the country’s three most common BBQ blunders.
- Although we haven’t heard them arrive in Wenvoe…yet, being forced to call the fire brigade
- Serving burned or undercooked food
- Dishing up meat products to vegetarians
BARBEQUES AND THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS.
Barbecues also feature in the Guinness Book of Records.
The largest attendance at a barbecue is 45,252 people at an event organised by Estado de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) on 18 August 2013.
The longest barbecue measured 8,000 metres, created by the people of Bayambang (Philippines), on 4 April 2014. The barbecue was made up of 8,000 grills connected to each other, each measuring 1 m in length, 58 cm in height and 21 cm in width.