Novice from Northumberland

[saxacat]

Hi everyone, thought I'd introduce myself. Just joining the forum as I seem to have caught the BBQ bug this summer.
Over the years and especially when the kids were young, I'd occasionally buy a cheap BBQ, use it once or twice and it would then be dumped in a corner and left to rust away, never to be used again. This year, not having owned a BBQ in many years, I bought a Weber Jumbo Joe and chimney starter and have really enjoyed having frequent BBQs. Now of course some of this is down to our great summer, but some of it is also due to the ease with which I can now light and get the BBQ up to temp (sometimes I'll fire it up just to do a couple of burgers for my tea); I find using the Weber a sheer joy. In fact I've enjoyed the experience so much I've just bought a 57cm One Touch Premium and the Pizza oven top.
I am a total novice, having just done the normal direct cooking stuff, burgers, sausage kebabs etc.. but I'm hoping to get more adventurous and will be seeing what advice I can glean off the site. I'm quite looking forward to some out-of-season BBQing as well.

Cheers

Saxacat (Eddie)

[Geordie888]

Welcome (from Novice from Jarrow)

[keith157]

Welcome, glad the bug has bitten so deeply
There are a lot of experienced and champion teams and individuals on this forum who are more than willing to help, all of whom started out from scratch learning from others. So you are not alone, we've all been there and some of us still are

[Tiny]

Saxacat,
Welcome, the forum has come alive this summer with folk of the north, I can only conclude that for the first time in a generation ithas become warm enough to spend time enough outdoors to bbq.

This is a goldmine of info, most of the basics can be found with the search facility and digesting the back catalogue, but should you have an off the wall question like "has anyone reverse seared the leg of a kudu and can recommend a good rub?" someone will pop up with the answer.

Have the Weber kettle bought at the end of last season and it will see you very well indeed done a lot of good stuff on it this summer.

Go well nortern chum,
Tiny

[keith157]

Tiny are you insinuating that Global Warming is a fact and currently heating the North of our sceptered isle?

[saxacat]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Tiny, it has been an unusually warm summer up here, one of the best in the 30yrs I've lived here (I'm originally from the warmer North West ), so I'm not surprised there's been an influx of us hitting the site. Keith, the North East could do with a bit of global warming

It's quite nice up here today, (could be our last bit of decent weather this year Geordie) so will be using the new One-Touch, for the first time, but planning on keeping it simple for the 1st use, just burgers and sausage, (butcher's didn't have any Kudu leg ) although I'm going to try and create a 2 zone set-up as an experiment.

Cheers

Saxacat (Eddie)

[keith157]

For a first time try a 3 zone i.e. an area without coals unless you can't spare the room, it's often useful to have a cool/cold zone