| A barbecue (or barbeque, that’s up to you!) is a | | | | barbecues. As gas barbecues involve the latest |
| simple piece of equipment for cooking food with the | | | | technologies such as side burners for sauces for |
| heat and hot gas of a fire, smoking wood or hot coals | | | | examples, are much easier to clean and use, they are |
| of charcoal. You would usually have a charcoal | | | | becoming very popular, which is creating a real debate |
| barbecue or gas barbecue. | | | | over which kind of barbecue is the best? |
| Apparently, most people believe the barbecue come | | | | Apart form that, you can now find very useful BBQ |
| from the Caribbean where the food was either put on | | | | tools that will be greatly helpful for cooking without |
| a platform above the fire and resting on sticks, or | | | | burning your hands every time you try to turn a piece |
| placed in a hole dug in the ground and then covered. | | | | of meat and so making a barbecue an even more |
| Barbecuing is widespread throughout the world from | | | | attractive outdoor activity. |
| The United Kingdom to Korea and the United States | | | | You would still have to be careful when cooking food |
| of America and has various regional variations. It | | | | on a barbecue though! People tend to forget that not |
| actually tends to be a social event when friends | | | | properly cooked food can get you into trouble as you |
| gather and have fun. There is actually a world | | | | could have eaten bacteria. So do not forget to make |
| championship barbecue cooking contest taking place in | | | | sure you cook your meat properly, wash your hands |
| Memphis in the United States of America every year | | | | and the different surfaces really often… Basically, be |
| in May. | | | | careful when you cook food on a barbecue and make |
| Cooking meat, fish, vegetables or anything else on a | | | | sure you think about doing it the clean and safe way. |
| barbecue is more of an outdoor activity as a | | | | Another interesting debate is to know who is usually |
| barbecue would usually create a lot of smoke | | | | controlling the barbecue between men and women? |
| depending on who is cooking and with what. When | | | | And according to some psychologists, men would tend |
| cooking food on a barbecue, you should be aware | | | | more to want to control the barbecue as it would |
| that whether you use wood, charcoal or gas, your | | | | allow them to play legally with fire. All this going back to |
| food will taste differently. | | | | prehistoric times where the fire was such a vital |
| Actually more and more people are buying gas | | | | resource. |