stainless steel 3 burner gas bbq

stov

Picked one of these up from my local Tesco (Burgess hill) today for £87.50, half price! on Tesco website for £175 (item 202-5663).
Yet to put together but VVVEEEERRRy heavy.

All we need is the sunshine and 3 crates of beer for £20:beer:

Poppycat

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.202-5663.aspx

(not that price online btw)



So are we all invited

stov

Yeah!

Bring your philips screwdriver!!!:rotfl:

Poppycat

Looks a professional BBQ

yorica

Where do you get the gas bottles from and what is the additional cost?

Cheers

Lütz_Pangaloo

It looks great value but is it a barbecue or a grill?

A few years ago now I bought what was advertised as a gas "barbecue" very cheap (it was sold off in the original Argos RO clearance, if anybody remembers that far back!). But once I'd put it together I discovered that it wasn't designed for use with briquettes or even lava rock - it was just a gas grill for the garden, which isn't what I wanted (but it was so cheap I kept it). This Tesco one looks like a similar thing.

To my mind the word barbecue implies the use of charcoal, and a style of cooking and taste that is quite different from a gas grill, but it would appear the actual use of the word is not clearly defined in the shops.

With a grill you end up using a lot of gas, as it has to be on throughout the cooking, rather than just at the beginning to get the charcoal going. Ours does a decent job, but I'd rather it were a proper barbecue, that's all.

barginunter

stov wrote: »

All we need is the sunshine and 3 crates of beer for £20:beer:

Wouldn't a couple of sausages also be handy?

real1314

I think you've misunderstood how a gas barbecue works. You put lava rock on it, not charcoal.
The gas heat the rocks, the rocks in turn cook the food.

The smell of barbecuing comes from fat hitting the rocks (or the charcoal on a non-gas BBQ).

Charcoal itself has little smell to add to the food, it's the fat cooking that creates the smell.

A grill is a completely different affair.

Lütz_Pangaloo

real1314 wrote: »

A grill is a completely different affair.

Yes, that was the point I was making.

:beer:

flatlander

I have rung a number of local Tesco stores none have this offer on
Shame I would have bought one ortherwise!

Decscom

Just bought the display model from Tesco Chorley for £75 so they are still out there if anyone is interested.

The down side is no instructions. Can any of you proud owners tell me if there any relavent instructions that come with the boxed version that I should know about?
Ta