LIVING OFF GRID

This blog is about our travels in our solar powered "Airstream" and living off grid, in our passive solar home, near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.

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Sunday 29 July 2012

BBQ

Summer and barbecuing go together like a hand and glove here in North America. Barbecues or BBQs use either propane, natural gas or charcoal as their fuel source. BBQs can be as cheap as $29.00 or as expensive as $800.00 or more. 


When we travel we don't have room for a BBQ so we adopted Connie's and Mike's method of BBQing. They use a large disposable aluminium roasting pan and fill it with charcoal. It's simple, cheap and takes up very little space in our trailer.



So here's the set-up, cheap disposable aluminium pan, grate, aluminium foil and burgers. We are ready to BBQ.




Last night we felt like having a burger so tried out Mike's BBQ idea.  Here we are outside our trailer.






Done to perfection. Would the "Big Green Egg" do it any better?





Add some tomato, lettuce, mushroom and cheese, delicious!




Don't forget the salad with home-made dressing; a perfect meal on a perfect summer night.


Today Mary and her sister Connie are off to Ottawa to look at kitchen cupboards from Ikea. Connie will be a great help and I can stay here and work on the house. Tomorrow the well pump goes in, aluminium soffit goes on and the bobcat gets an oil change.


Thanks for dropping by and let us know how you do your burgers.

1 comment:

  1. Cool!
    Have you ever seen this?
    https://vitalgrill.com/en/prod/vital-grill-bbq
    They carry it at Rona and I bought a similar one from Rona a while back. Worked really well burning soft/hard wood. The only down side for you would be the batteries for the blower, but you could modify and use a bellows or something I'm sure.

    That also reminds me of what I saw one year at the home show too...

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=solar+cooker&hl=en&newwindow=1&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=6JkaUO4wqI3oAbzdgPgO&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=799
    ...and you would have to pray for sun of course.

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