Sainsbury's BBQ

If you only want disposable ones, you could do worse than to get them for £1 each...

mrbilbs wrote: »

Reduced from an original price of £90 Sainsburys are selling a great gas BBQ for £45. It also has a side seperate single gas burner. My mum bought one last week thinking it was a bargain as it had been reduced to £60 now they are only £45.

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Whilst this does have the side gas burner and has a large hinged domed lid, it does look and feel very cheap and nasty. It is all metal, and rather thin metal at that, and when I played with the assembled one in store, it did bend and flex very easily. Rather "wobbly" overall - chrome plated steel grill rack etc., and steel nuts & bolts.

HOWEVER, next to it was a solid hardwood trolley style one with brass fittings that looked really stylish and well made. And it is !

It doesn't have a side burner (but if I want one I can get one of these separately) and so I get 2 work surfaces instead of 1, nor does it have a domed lid (and I am already making my own variation to fit this one so that I can cook "enclosed") BUT it does have very robust CAST IRON insides - a griddle and a "solid" hot plate (can fry an egg on this if I need to) - and the griddle is suspended above a metal rack that takes lava rocks (included) that get hot and glow like real coals. Also the entire bottom is a removable fat drip tray that just pulls out the front - instructions suggest putting a thin layer of sand or cat-litter in before use.

It also has a very high heat output - over 11kW - whereas the other one is only 7.6kW and that includes the gas ring.

The best news is that this barbecue is CHEAPER (really doesn't look like it should be) Was £75 - now only £37.50

Totally over the moon with it !!!

Even matches the hardwood table, chairs and loungers we got last year in a closing down sale.

Still overpriced at £44 (in my local). Thin metal means rust by end of summer and holes by beginning of next. The heat of the fire will take care of the lovely green colour by day one etc. If you have room in your garden consider building one very cheaply out of bricks. It will last for years and years.

is 11kw output good?

I bought a BBQ at the back end of last year from Woolies....it was reduced from £80 to about £13 - it sucks (should try vacuuming with it I reckon), doesn't get hot enough with the lid up, burns every thing to a cinder with the lid down.

Therefore I'll be very careful that my next BBQ purchase has anough clout to actually barbeque with the lid up!

Also, with the Woolies one, the cooking meat fat drops onto a metal plate below which instantly turns into a flame which carbonises the meat....I'm expecting that lava rock avoids this?

Niggy wrote: »

It seems to be made by a company called Landmann - looks like they make half decent BBQ's - model no. 004572

http://www.landmann.co.uk/product/itemdetail.asp?mid=38



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ive got one similar to this one (landmann), its almost 10yrs old and hasnt got a speck of rust on it despite living outside all year, it cooks well, and i have been pleased with it. hope that helps someone