Dual Gas Barbecue!! £49.99 Aldi

Saint_Chris

I bought this 2 years ago and it is brilliant.

But remember you have to get a gas bottle for it. And the deposit for a gas bottle is £40.

We got one 2 years ago and it is a little bottle. And most nights we have a bbq when it is summer.

I would say buy. Good sturdy and a good bbq

phatbhoy

Ialso bought the BBQ from Aldi 2 years ago and it has been great highly recommended.

However the one I got while looking identical (except for wooden shelves) is made by Lindleman or something like that not the one they are listing now.

Couple of other points - you can avoid having to stump up the £40 deposit for a gas bottle - just by looking around for dumped or abandoned gas bottles on areas of waste ground - building sites etc. Obviously I am not advocating stealing them.

Finally - charcoal will result in the best authentic BBQ taste to food. But its a lot more hassle to prepare and clean etc. We have had lots of BBQs on our Aldi gas unit and no complaints

Benny24

Yeah it not bad at all, a lot easier and less fiddly, and you can get different types of lava rock impregnated with all sorts of flavours.

Benny24

Oh and another bargin which ASDA are selling for £1.25 is a piece of wood that you can soak in either water or beer or wine for a few hours and then place this on the barbie and cook your fish, meat, chicken etc on this and it's gives it a fantastic flavour!

Make sure you soak the plank well or it will burn, and it's reuseable!!!

SUMMER HERE WE COME!!!

phatbhoy

Aye? Didn't know that. Can you use this plank on a gas BBQ

mercurystar999

I've got a big yanky gas bbq, total waste of space you may aswell just go in the kitchen! The whole point of a bbq is that the food has more taste when burnt using charcoal! Thats why i'm ditching it in favour of a weber. I'm after a one touch gold but thanks for the links. What did the which people decide then as that link won't work.

cooksie_2

Dont know if its the same gas as a patio heater, but we have just bought one, shopped around for gas, and found the local tool hire company cheapest and no deposit £12 for a bottle, b&q and garden centre wanted £30-40 including deposit.

phatbhoy

Its a bit daft to spend big money on a big yank BBQ and then decide thats not what you want - you must be on the wrong forum - where is the money saving in that?

I lived in Australia where they love a barbie - and they nearly all use gas too.

Slightly off topic - but I would ask everyone thinking of buying a patio heater to think about it. Its not nice for the environment. And thats putting it mildly.

Benny24

phatbhoy wrote:

Aye? Didn't know that. Can you use this plank on a gas BBQ

You can indeed. Very Nice too! :rolleyes:

EvilMonkey

mercurystar999 wrote:

I've got a big yanky gas bbq, total waste of space you may aswell just go in the kitchen! The whole point of a bbq is that the food has more taste when burnt using charcoal! Thats why i'm ditching it in favour of a weber. I'm after a one touch gold but thanks for the links. What did the which people decide then as that link won't work.

There's a summary of the report in the money section of todays guardian.

2 things to note:-

Gas V charcoal - charcoal = extra taste, BUT some bbq's come with "flavourisers" basically bits of metal that vaporise fat (which is where the extra flavour comes from).

Secondly joint winners (for gas) were the B&Q Winchester at £150 and the Landmann three-burner flatbed from woolies, also £150. They also liked the argos one mentioned already in this thread (at the rrp of £90)

Hope this helps...