I love barbecue but seem to know very little about it! I cook lots indoors but haven’t had much practice outdoors or with big meat

To make sure my next BBQ goes better than the last: What are your favourite places (websites, YouTube channels, blogs, etc) to get barbecue advice/knowledge/ideas/inspiration?

Alternatively: what are your best pieces of advice for BBQ novices? :)

Thanks in advance!

  • @grouchoEnglish
    3•10 days ago

    I have an egg so I lurk on the Big Green Egg Forum and check The BBQ Buddha from time to time and have had really good results with Car Wash Mike’s baby-back rib recipe. Your milage may vary based on what you’re using.

    More generally, I also just picked this book up for recipes that aren’t just American BBQ. The author is awesome, and put the book together to be as grill-agnostic as possible.

    Beyond that, keep it clean and don’t cross-contaminate. If you have a gas grill, keep the drip pan empty, gently clean the tubes, and scrape all the accumulated grease and soot off the inside of the grill with a rubber spatula. If you have a charcoal grill, keep the ash cleaned out and store it in an airtight metal container to keep any stray embers from re-igniting. Either use separate tools to handle raw meat, or wash them thoroughly before you touch cooked food with them.

    And have fun! Some stuff won’t turn out, but I’ve only made one truly inedible thing when I set my gas grill on fire (I forgot to clean it.) The more you practice, the better your results.

    • @wren@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2•10 days ago

      Book purchased! As well as the other one mentioned by Destide earlier. Excited to learn lots, thanks for the recommendations

      We’ve got a gas grill, but didn’t know you had to clean the tubes. I always look in all the crevices to check for spiders anyway tho, so hopefully no future accidental fires

      Also: I didn’t know what a big green egg was until earlier today but they look fantastic! Hope your eggy barbecue dreams are coming true with having one :)

      • @grouchoEnglish
        2•10 days ago

        Yeah I had an old toothbrush I’d gently brush them out with and I assume it did something? That’s what the manual said to do.

        The bigger issue imo is scraping the accumulated grease and grime off the inside of the firebox and emptying the drip pan regularly.