Hello from Kent & France
Posted: 21 May 2012, 11:37Just found this excellent forum, and spent a couple of hours browsing before deciding to join. Everyone seems so helpful here!
I bought my first serious BBQ - a Weber 221/2 - just before Christmas 1985, because the turkey wouldn't fit in the oven with all the trimmings cooking at the same time. A friend recommended it, and boy, did it work! I left it behind during a "matrimonial rearrangement" 14 years ago, but reports have it that it is still going.
After remarriage to a Funeral Director who had a flat above the "shop" I bought a new one. I mention the funeral bit because we found that the body fridge was the best place to marinade turkeys and other big joints in the summer! Anyway, with my wife's flat being rent-free, we decided to buy a place in France, so we obviously had to get another Weber.
I soon found that one BBQ was not enough for a large gathering, so we clearly had to buy another two, one for each place. Then I felt the need for a smoker, so the WSM appeared on the scene (it now resides in France). In France we keep the BBQs in a storage area off the courtyard, and in winter we cook there. Unfortunately in summer swallows come back from their travels and raise their young in the roof-beams, so in recent years the summer weather has dictated fewer BBQs than desired, and I made the sensible (to my way of thinking) decision to buy the Spirit gas job, which means we can cook in all but the worst weather. We've also got a firepit on which we can do basic cooking, and a portable BBQ for camping.
They're all necessary - I just wish the wife could see it that way!
Anyway, I look forward to learning a lot on here, and perhaps contributing a little from time to time.
Peter
I bought my first serious BBQ - a Weber 221/2 - just before Christmas 1985, because the turkey wouldn't fit in the oven with all the trimmings cooking at the same time. A friend recommended it, and boy, did it work! I left it behind during a "matrimonial rearrangement" 14 years ago, but reports have it that it is still going.
After remarriage to a Funeral Director who had a flat above the "shop" I bought a new one. I mention the funeral bit because we found that the body fridge was the best place to marinade turkeys and other big joints in the summer! Anyway, with my wife's flat being rent-free, we decided to buy a place in France, so we obviously had to get another Weber.
I soon found that one BBQ was not enough for a large gathering, so we clearly had to buy another two, one for each place. Then I felt the need for a smoker, so the WSM appeared on the scene (it now resides in France). In France we keep the BBQs in a storage area off the courtyard, and in winter we cook there. Unfortunately in summer swallows come back from their travels and raise their young in the roof-beams, so in recent years the summer weather has dictated fewer BBQs than desired, and I made the sensible (to my way of thinking) decision to buy the Spirit gas job, which means we can cook in all but the worst weather. We've also got a firepit on which we can do basic cooking, and a portable BBQ for camping.
They're all necessary - I just wish the wife could see it that way!
Anyway, I look forward to learning a lot on here, and perhaps contributing a little from time to time.
Peter
Ermmm...........well that's a new angle........not sure what you are going to share but hopefully it's kosha! 
