In this episode - Hacks for your next barbecue!
Here's a really easy way to make your own fire starters.
Melt some old birthday candles in a microwave for about 5 minutes
and whilst waiting for the candles to melt,
cut out some cardboard pieces.
Now soak up the cardboard pieces in the melted wax and let them dry out.
And now you have some really good long-lasting fire starters for your barbecue.
So now I'm just lighting it up.
It is starting to light up, baby.
So what the wax does,
it actually allows the cardboard to burn slower.
So there you have it -
a really easy way to get the fire started.
Now if you can't get your charcoal going and you don't have lighter fluid,
why not use some sugar?
This is better because the lighter fluid has that horrible...
...chemical taste, which I don't really like and I'm sure a lot of you don't like either.
So I'm going to go ahead,
and I'm going to sprinkle the sugar over the coal.
Ooh!
It's magic.
See that? I mean, you can't not see that right?
How cool is that?
So instead of having that chemical lighter fluid smell,
you get this nice, caramelized sugary smell.
All in your food, which is nice!
To get your coal burning,
some people would probably use either a fan
or go up close to it and blow it to get the fire all started.
So here is a simple way so you don't get burnt,
to get that fire started.
All you need is two bottles, just like these,
one that fits inside the other.
You just cut the ends off like this,
keep the cap on one of them,
slide that inside like this,
and that is going to be where the air blows out.
All you have to do is go up close,
and do this.
You see the fire coming up?
Look at that.
I find this a more targeted way as opposed to using a fan.
You can really get in there, and get it going.
I'm really hot.
Okay bye!
If you're using a public grill,
you might be a little bit icky because it's pretty dirty
so I'm going to teach you a way to clean your grill using no chemicals,
which is great.
So all you need is actually an onion.
Put a fork through it just like this,
so that you don't burn yourself,
and then, you just slide it across the grill just like this.
So you have to make sure that it is hot grill,
so that it melts away all the grease and grime everywhere.
And not only that, it smells damn nice.
Like damn nice. Like I'm salivating right now.
A lot of you may face this problem,
where you've got like 10,000 bottles on the table,
of all your sauces and whatnot.
I'm going to give you a simple solution to hold all of your sauces all at once.
All you need is a muffin tin.
So I've already gone ahead and put my onion and... my cheese sauce in there.
So I'm going to go ahead,
I'm going to put the mustard, ketchup in here.
Ah, shit.
I can clean it up in a minute.
Good as new, look at that.
Now for the mayonnaise and honey
in the following four spare spots in my tin.
So this is a lot easier than using all the little paper bowls
and if it's windy it's gonna blow away everywhere.
This is very sturdy,
it's good to clean up,
you don't waste paper,
and it's recycling, man.
If you want to cook an egg on the grill,
it can get a little bit messy.
So why not use a bell pepper?
So I'm going to teach you just how to do it.
I've gone ahead and cut my bell pepper in half,
looks like this.
So now I just got to gut the inside out.
So I've washed the seeds out,
it looks like this, very nice colour.
So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put this on the grill first.
And then I'm going to crack the egg into the bell pepper.
Ooops.
I kind of...
did it a bit too roughly?
And it kind of went on the grill. That's okay.
We can clean that up later with the onion.
Okay. Next one. Ready?
Okay. That one is a lot better
and the yolk is in place, which is great.
Okay since I broke the egg yolk in that one,
I'm just going to whisk it a little bit,
you could even put some herbs in there.
Just wait for that to cook until that egg is nice and cooked to your preference.
All right. So my eggs in bell peppers are pretty much ready.
I'm going to poke the yolk just to show you how runny it is inside.
So it's just nice.
It's like cooked on the outside but a little bit runny on the inside.
Okay. So it smells really, really good.
Super yummy, so that's about ready to serve up.
So that's what the bottom looks like but that's okay.
You can just peel that burnt bit off
and it's nice and roasted now.
So... yummy yummy!
Now, if you like putting hotdogs on the grill,
I'm going to teach you a way to do it so that you get
that nice char grill taste all around the hotdogs.
So all you need to get is your hotdog,
put the skewer right in the middle.
Grab a knife,
you want to cut a spiral down the hotdog
just like I'm doing now.
Next thing you need to do,
is you just need to spread the hotdog down the skewer.
Just open it all up, like this.
Just do it gently so you don't break it
And that, my friends, is now ready to go on the grill
and it's gonna get all the charcoal-ly bits inside there, which is awesome.
Not only that, it will also cook a lot faster.
So now it's time to put the hotdogs on the grill,
I've gone ahead and I've made more of these...
really... freaking ugly...
hotdog... I...
Where did you get these from?
Anyway I better put them on the grill before I spill it all
so I'm gonna...
put all of that there.
These look disgusting.
What are they made of?
Plastic?
These are the good ones.
We'd just wait for that to cook.
So while that is cooking,
I'm gonna teach you how to make a DIY food warmer.
So all you need is two cans -
one here,
and one here.
I've got this little tray,
all you gotta do is place it on the two cans just like that.
And then...
You can put your food on top of the grill thingy.
While the sausage is cooked,
it will keep the bell peppers nice and warm
so now everything can be served all at once!
I'm still curious to know what these are made of.
That just looks gross to me.
Let's not focus on the ugly sausages okay?
Let's just go back to the...
Look at how beautiful these sausages look.
And you can see how nicely charred it is,
all around the grooves of the sausages.
So once this is done,
you can put it in a bun if you like
and then you can put all the condiments inside here
and it's not going to fall out.
Eh? Clever right?
Alrighty. Now for the clean up, ladies and gentlemen.
Now to get all that grime off the grill,
all you need is an aluminium foil.
Scrunch it up into a little ball,
grab some tongs in case the grill is still hot,
and scrub away.
Or you can just use your hands but you have to be careful okay, guys?
Because the heat, if it's still hot,
it's going to go right through the foil
and burn your hands.
So there you go, I've just done half of it
so you can see the difference now.
It works pretty well,
obviously I got to keep going but you get the gist, right?
And that is it for this episode.
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