Cold Weather BBQ

Get The Taste Of A Rotisserie

Everyone says that bbq's are for fair weather. I totally disagree!!

Why deny yourself the opportunity of creating delicious food, just 'cause it's got a bit colder.

If you use a caravan and it gets windy, you put up a wind break.
If you go out in the cold, you put on extra clothing.
If it rains, you put up an umbrella.

So, why do BBQ's not deserve the same treatment.

Put up a shelter/gazebo
Put up a wind break
Add some extra charcoal

BUT, don't be put off.  How great is to have your roasts cooked on a rotisserie in winter?
How great is it to cook Caribbean food on the bbq when it's cold?

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It's All About Taste

There is so much comment about food these days.  What you should eat and what you shouldn't eat, so I'm going to fly a flag for taste. We BBQ food on our rotisserie every week, no matter what the weather. Rotisserie cooking always delivers intense flavours, it's just it's nature, but what we've found is that some of the cheaper cuts of meat and fish, can produce some outstanding food.

 

Most of the horrible fat disappears during cooking and what you are left with is delicious food.  The tick to not piling on the pounds is portion control.

Enjoy your food, but be content with less of it.  Don't always "fill your face".  If there are leftovers, save them and enjoy them a second time.

Try lamb shoulder, shoulder of pork or brisket.  Cook them slowly to tenderize them.  There are so many offers for fish. Bream and bass are extensively farmed, as is trout.  All these fish can be poached in white wine. Place them in some foil and pour the wine over, add a few slices of lemon and then loosely wrap the foil into an envelope with the seal at the top.  Put them on your grill on a low heat.

Cook for no more than twenty minutes and the flesh will just fall off the bone.  It's healthy and tastes brilliant. 

Take a look at our web site for some brilliant recipes.
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Rebellion Brewery Shows Off Rotigrill's Products

Rebellion Brewery Tour featured A Rotigrill Hog Roast & Lamb Roast

Tuesday 2nd September

Rotigrill were invited to support Rebellion Brewery by supplying our Hog Roaster and Lamb Roaster and cooking their superb meat that was supplied by David Nichols.

Between 400 and 500 people attended and enjoyed a tour of the brewing facilities, plus the opportunity to sample and buy Rebellion products.

Rebellion staff put on a very professional catering operation, with home made burgers, specially made seeded rolls (which included Rebellion beer as an ingredient), chicken and sausages.  The main event however was the Rotigrill Hog Roast and Lamb Roast, which together with Colin George's special stuffing, sold out very quickly.

Two local companies working together, helping each other and benefiting each other.

Here's to the next one!

Sauces Can Make A Difference

We recently met up with a company called Man Meat Fire, who make BBQ sauces.  We've been approached by similar companies in the past, but when we tried their products last weekend, we were knocked out by them.  We used the Piri Piri sauce on chicken, Chimichurri  sauce (fiery Caribbean) and Hot Ginger sauce on prawns.



We put them on kebab BBQ skewers and cooked them on our Rotigrill Compact rotisserie bbq, which is an ideal portable charcoal bbq, for anyone who has a motorhome or caravan, or for people who just want to put their bbq in the boot of their car for outdoor picnics or the beach.

The tastes and flavour were so good, but not too powerful that they masked the flavour of the chicken and prawns.  All we did was place our meat and prawns in separate bowls and then covered them with the sauce and then marinated them in the fridge for 30 minutes.


Cooking took just 12 minutes for the chicken and 7 minutes for the prawns.  Cooking them on a rotisserie meant that everything was thouroughly and evenly cooked.

 

Accompanied by a mixed salad, it was a delicious bbq lunch that made the sunny weather even more attractive!
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New Hog Roaster Launched

We have just added a new product to our Hog Roaster range

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This new model comes with a cradle type stand and the option of a carving tray, which enables eye-level carving.
Made of all stainless steels, the cradle model uses design features from our original, tripod stand model, which have all been tried and tested by our many satisfied customers.

The Big Food Debate Goes On - What's Healthy and What Isn't?

We produce BBQ equipment; more specifically, rotisserie BBQ's.  Time and again, customers call me to ask how to cook all sorts of things and I am really glad to help them.  However, recently, someone called and it really stumped me.  She asked about calorie content, fat content and all manner of things about how healthy it was to eat food cooked on a BBQ. I had to admit that I didn't have answers to her questions and suggested that she should search Google for a nutrition site.

This got me thinking and luckily I bumped into a personal fitness trainer at a networking event, who during conversation said that he advises and presents not only on training, but also nutrition.  Right! I repeated the questions from my customer and here's the gist of what he said.  Unless food is packed with chemicals to either preserve them or enhance their flavour, it is all good. He suggested that "A little bit of what you fancy won't harm you".  It is where people self indulge in both foods and quantities that they know aren't good for them that problems occur.  He maintains that it is the person and not the food that is the issue.  We all have choices and the vast amount of regulations that exist means that by and large we can make informed decisions as to what we eat. 

His next topics were portions and balance.  Control the portion sizes and balance food intake with the right combinations that we need.  We all know what they are; not too much meat, red meat on occasions, vegetables and fruit, fish and pulses.

On the main subject of bbq food, he reckons that provided the food isn't smothered with sauces, bbq food can be very healthy as there is no added fat.  Again, use fresh produce and not fatty burgers and sausages.  We roast a lot of our food on the rotisserie and apart from fantastic taste, most natural fat either drips off or burns away.

Another nutrition adviser I spoke to said simply: "Cut out the C.R.A.P." (Caffeine, Refined sugar, Additives and Preservatives), then eat a natural, balanced diet.

All this makes absolute sense, so my message to my customer when she next calls is to read this blog.
Then try some of the delicious recipes from our website: http://www.rotigrill.com/recipes

Time To BBQ

Time to BBQ

 
Now that the weather seems to be improving, people will be bringing out their bbq's. We specialise in rotisserie bbq's, which offer all sorts of cooking options for outdoor events. On our web site, we have all the equipment that you'll need, plus a "How To" page and some great bbq recipes. 

We cater for those who want something small, to put in the car or caravan, multi roast bbq's for the home and garden, plus specialist machines for a Lamb Roast or Hog Roast.

Everything is great value and built to last.

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