I’ve been demonstrating Weber for the past two seasons, and it seems that customers often have a thought about getting a barbeque to ‘have one’ – perhaps to replace an old one or they don’t have one at all and have decided they would like to.
When buying a barbeque, we can fall into the trap of thinking that the idea of what a barbeque needs to be, can be based on previous experience. So if your previous experience is of half burned snags and onion rings on a hot plate, then that’s “what a barbeque means”. It need not be so, and it is worth considering that there may be much more scope to use the barbeque going forward, then has been the case in the past.
Tip: A good barbeque will let you do all the things you have done in the past, as well as anything you could do in a conventional oven. We typically use our barbeques more in summer and the added advantage is that we can cook anything we want to cook, outside, and keep the heat out of the house. This is the benefit that customers tell me they really appreciate about their barbeques when they talk about using them.
Some seem to regard barbeques as semi-disposable, but a good barbeque should last many, many years without a problem.
Tip: Check the length of the warranty. If it is only short, then you know the company is not regarding their product as a long-term buy.
We often buy a barbeque thinking about cooking on it. Once we have it home and for the rest of the time we have it, we think about cleaning it and what maintenance it demands, and how sturdy and reliable it is, and just good at what it is supposed to do.
What you don’t want: To be thinking about why we have to keep moving food around, if the barbeque is one that has cold spots and no good control over the heat, and whether we made a good decision when we bought it or if we ended up with a lemon that is hard to clean, chews through a lot of gas for a poor result, or is attracting crawlies when not in use.
I’d recommend choosing one that you really like and that you’ll like even more each season as you use it.
When buying a barbeque, we can fall into the trap of thinking that the idea of what a barbeque needs to be, can be based on previous experience. So if your previous experience is of half burned snags and onion rings on a hot plate, then that’s “what a barbeque means”. It need not be so, and it is worth considering that there may be much more scope to use the barbeque going forward, then has been the case in the past.
Tip: A good barbeque will let you do all the things you have done in the past, as well as anything you could do in a conventional oven. We typically use our barbeques more in summer and the added advantage is that we can cook anything we want to cook, outside, and keep the heat out of the house. This is the benefit that customers tell me they really appreciate about their barbeques when they talk about using them.
Some seem to regard barbeques as semi-disposable, but a good barbeque should last many, many years without a problem.
Tip: Check the length of the warranty. If it is only short, then you know the company is not regarding their product as a long-term buy.
We often buy a barbeque thinking about cooking on it. Once we have it home and for the rest of the time we have it, we think about cleaning it and what maintenance it demands, and how sturdy and reliable it is, and just good at what it is supposed to do.
What you don’t want: To be thinking about why we have to keep moving food around, if the barbeque is one that has cold spots and no good control over the heat, and whether we made a good decision when we bought it or if we ended up with a lemon that is hard to clean, chews through a lot of gas for a poor result, or is attracting crawlies when not in use.
I’d recommend choosing one that you really like and that you’ll like even more each season as you use it.
