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Planet Barbecue is here to help you discover new ideas and recipes for your barbecue party. It may be just a few friends or the whole family, all will be impressed with your new outdoor cooking culinary skills.

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Inspiration

At Planet Barbecue You will find inspiration to entice you to try something new, so save this page to your favourites and you will never be stuck for ideas again. 

You have purchased your BBQ, fuel supplies and  made the garden comfortable for your guests.  So why not spend a little more time on  the barbecue  food. Outdoor food at its best cooked over charcoal.

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Loads of BBQ tips and advice

No more black sausages, out of control flames and flare ups and embarrassingly waiting for the charcoal to reach cooking temperature. Just follow the tips on these pages to have trouble free barbecues.

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For Beginners

With minimal preparation and planning you can create the best barbecue ever. Start with new to barbecue for tips and information on direct and indirect cooking techniques. And then move on to recipes for mouth watering and hunger inducing photographs of real barbecued food.

No long lists of ingredients, just simple but tasty recipes.

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Barbecue

It is thought that the word "Barbecue" originated as  Barbecoa. A process used to preserve meat in hot countries. The idea was to cook the meat indirectly with smoke from a wood fire.

Smoke Chamber

A chamber would be used and smoke from a fire would be channelled into it, the food would take several hours or even a couple of days to cook.

This process was also used to tenderize tough, cheap cuts of meat.

Barbecuing or grilling

Cooking food over hot charcoal (direct cooking) should therefore be called grilling, but for the British the word "Barbecue" means "A gathering of people cooking, eating and drinking outside".

A compromise can be accomplished by following some of the recipes found on these pages.

Indirect Cooking

A covered barbecue can be set up so that the food cooks indirectly and takes several hours, this technique allows the meat to absorb more smoke, adds more flavour and gives you more time to enjoy the company of your friends.

This method also enables you to barbecue all the year round like the Canadians, where many a garage can be seen smoking on a Saturday afternoon, in the depths of winter.

Some Americans take their barbecuing very seriously with elaborate contraptions designed to smoke the meat slowly, thus large joints of meat or several chickens can be cooked at once. The Australians drink a lot of lager and sit around a hot plate.

BBQ All the Year Round

Why not try barbecuing a whole salmon on new years day for a really special starter. your guests will be amazed and it so easy, just look at Charlie Charcoals simple to follow recipes.

Just click on New to barbecue to find out how easy it can be.

Just remember if you want a stress free barbecue party, to prepare everything you can in advance of your guests arriving.