Best BBQ Tips -
Impress Your Friends
with a Perfect Outdoor Meal

Do you struggle with cooking over an open fire? Best BBQ Tips give you all the info to prepare the perfect barbecue and impress your friend with a delicious outdoor meal.

Get your chops lip smacking delicious.

If well-organized it's the most convenient, entertaining and flexible food activity around, starting early afternoon and stretch idly into the evening.

Tommy: The aroma coming from someone else's barbecue on a summer evening always makes my mouth water. That normally makes me reach for charcoal to set a fire and make my own mouthwatering BBQ.

Spareribs on the Grill

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How to prepare the Perfect BBQ and outdoor meal

• Always use prime meat and other ingredients.

• Use high quality charcoal, big chunks or compact briquettes.

High quality charcoal will give good temperature and constant heat, which is needed to barbecue meat to perfection.

With an open fire there is no way of regulating heat, except to lift or lower grid. Therefore, use enough charcoal to be sure you have sufficient heat.

Place fire lighter sticks at the bottom with charcoal packed on top before lighting. Fire lighting liquid can also be poured over the charcoal before setting it alight.

The perfect temperature is reached when the flames have subsided and the clumps turn light grey.

The fire takes at least 30 minutes to get to the right temperature, which is vital for grilling meat to perfection.

BBQ tips and full instruction on how to build a fire.

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Cooking with Charcoal

• Direct cooking over the heat gives a traditional smoky flavor so loved, here the heat is high - turn meat often to prevent burning.

• Indirect cooking with lower heat usually in a kettle with a lid on top. Here the cooking time is longer and the coals are placed on the side of the kettle with a drip try in the middle. This creates almost an outdoor oven.

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Set the Stage

Good preparation is vital. Plan ahead and prepare the night before if you choose to marinate the meat.

Marinating the meat gives extra flavor and tenderness. Remove from fridge 30 minutes before cooking.

Marinade chicken wings, leave overnight in the fridge and freeze them the following day. Perfect to BBQ when the time is right.

Plan rest of the meal and prepare side dishes where possible. See easy camping recipes for more ideas.

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Barbecue Tips for Meat

• Clean the grid by rubbing with a raw onion cut in half.
• Brush grid with a little cooking oil to prevent meat from sticking to it.
• Fresh rosemary twigs tossed onto the fire gives off a lovely aroma and infuses the meat.
• Don't overcrowd the grid with meat as this will prevent meat form cooking properly.
• Cook food thoroughly, especially pork and chicken. Beef cuts are best when still pink on the inside, but this depends on personal preference.

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Best Meat Cuts to BBQ

• Rump steak - has the best flavor.
• Sirloin - Is a tender cut from the back of the loin.
• Filet steak - the most expensive, lean and boneless.
• T-bone - with a t-shaped bone - juicy and succulent.

Cooking times for steak about 2.5 cm/1 inch is about 8-10 minutes in total but, if you like it rare 5-7 minutes.

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Lamb Cuts

• Chump chops - has a smaller bone and the meat is firm.
• Loin chops - delicious for the barbecue.
• Leg of lamb - Have the butcher de-bone it for you, very tender, excellent.
• Rack of lamb - smaller joints, cut between the bones for individual pieces - can be very fatty.

Lamb takes longer to cook about 10-15 minutes, depending on the cut and thickness of meat.

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How to Barbecue Pork

• Spare ribs - usually marinated.
• Fillet - very lean can also use for kebabs.
• Chops - popular especially the skin part that gets nice and crisp over the bbq. If the fat is too much trim some off but, keep the skin part for crackling.

Pork should always be well-done - cook chops for 15 -20 minutes. Spare ribs are thick and should be cooked for 30-40 minutes.

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How to BBQ Chicken

All chicken is suitable to cook over an open fire. Just make sure that it's cooked properly. Cook over medium heat to prevent from burning on the outside while not done on the inside. Drumsticks and other pieces 25 minutes, a whole flat chicken 40-45 minutes.

BBQ tips give you a broad outline for making an outdoor cooking experience very enjoyable.

Practice makes perfect so follow these bbq tips and get started, practice until you're an expert.