Weber Cooking

I love cooking a chook on the webber at home. There's nothing like it. I stuff a couple of lemons up its bum, sprinkle steak spice over the skin. Get the webber going with those easylite heat beads, let them burn to white. Put whole potatoes in their jackets not wrapped in anything on the grate at the edge but not directly above the beads, put lid on. Half hour later put chicken directly on grate. Lid on. Hour later all should be done and ready - just need the wine, some steamed green vegies and a good gravy. All washed down with a homemade stickydate pudding. Nothing like it on a fat sunday night.

Lamb - I always use the leg withthe bone still in - it doesn't dry out as much.
Stab holes in the lamb and stuff with minced garlic and fresh rosemary leaves. Put on rack in webber with potato as above - all goes on at same time though. Squirt honey all over lamb and potatoe. More honey about 40 mins later. Should all be ready in another 40ish mins (depends on size of lamb).

Make sure all holes are always open while cooking. Close all holes at end to put beads out.

I nearly use the whole bag of beads split between both sides. But I know that is way overkill. I'm just a pyromaniac.

Now you've gone and got me thinking about it. I'm going home to cook a chook on the webber for dinner.
That's another thing I forgot to mention. The left over carcass and meat from the webber chook is great the next day used in the slow cooker to make a soup.

Hey Wato,

Go direct to the Weberbbq Web Site. Do not pass go, Do not collect $200.

www.weberbbq.com.au/

This site gives cooking times for different meats and the quantity of heat beads to use, etc. Also some good recipes to get you started.

Pretty well all roasting type meals you use the indirect method where the heat beads are located at both sides of the kettle rather than in the middle as for the direct method used for BBQ'ing.

I had a quick read and was surprised at the suggested number of heat beads.

Enjoy your experimenting mate.

My "workshop manual" that came with the Weber recommended 22 heat beads each side and I always had success with this quantity.

I hardly ever use the Weber now though as I prefer the simplicity of the Cobb Cooker, even at home.

Hi wato

Webber also put out a cookbook that came with it so you maybe able to source one of those from somewhere or try the person that sold it to you.

Happy cooking!

Cya
Muddy's Significant Other
:)

Hi
Bets move we did was convert our Webber to gas - same taste, less hassle with heat beads etc.... We picked a second hand Webber BBQ book up from the used bookshop - worth a look ??

Thanks all for your replys.

Wato35