Sample the delights of the home barbecue

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33092, 6 December 1972, Page 10

Sample the delights of the home barbecue

When you have built a barbecue in your own backyard you will wonder how you ever lived without one.

Steak, chops and sausages, to say nothing of toast, taste better than ever before.

Your whole family will probably get more fun from a barbecue than from anything else around your home.

Barbecue parties make entertaining easy—everyone relaxes and enjoys himself and most of the rubbish is simple to dispose of by burning on the spot

Building a barbecue is not too difficult at all. As with most outdoor projects

of a relatively simple nature, common sense and taking it quietly usually

produce a very satisfactory result The illustration below

shows a circular barbecue with swing-out griller plates which you will find very handy when cooking large quantities of meat. Fresh air, a few drinks and convivial company combined have a remarkable capacity for stimulating the appetite. If barbecue parties are to be of any size it is well to have the cooking facilities adequate. The swing-out griller plates also help to keep the meat hot once it is cooked. A circular barbecue has many advantages. The cook can walk right around it keeping the smoke away from his face. People can gather around the outside of the stonework and keep warm if the weather gets a little on the cool side. The circular construction also looks good and has a modifying influence on any vigorous breeze that might spring up. Such a barbecue should be built on a solid stone work or concrete four inches thick. The stones or bricks for each course of the barbecue walls should be laid with mortar using nine parts sand, three parts lime and one part cement