{"id":627,"date":"2008-04-20T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-04-20T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:11:00","slug":"our-new-weber-grill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/our-new-weber-grill\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new Weber grill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2429237840\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2331\/2429237840_4f59e9ed4c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2429237840\/\">Charlotte and our new Weber grill<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Till now, we&#8217;ve restricted ourselves to disposable barbecues from Lidl, but they are a pain &ndash; too small and useless if there&#8217;s any wind at all.<\/p>\n<p>So recently I decided to invest in a proper Weber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FWeber-Touch-Silver-Charcoal-Kettle%2Fdp%2FB000S8IV8W%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1208725272%26sr%3D11-1&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\">grill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FWeber-7416-WEBER-CHIMNEY-STARTER%2Fdp%2FB000WEOQV8%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Doutdoors%26qid%3D1208725401%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\">chimney starter<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of bad weather, we didn&#8217;t get a chance to try it out till now, but today Charlotte and I finally got it fired up.<\/p>\n<p>There was a bit of wind, so our first attempt at using the chimney starter didn&#8217;t work out.  We then moved it to a more sheltered part of the garden, and it then worked beautifully: Two crumbled newspaper pages and one match was all it took to start a beautiful fire.<\/p>\n<p>The grill also worked really well, although the fairly large distance between coals and food meant it took a while to cook.  I also think the manual&#8217;s specification of the number of briquettes needed was too low &ndash; I found it hard to use the whole cooking area.<\/p>\n<p>But all in all it worked well, and its height made it possible for both Charlotte and me to cook on it.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and our new Weber grill Originally uploaded by viralbus Till now, we&#8217;ve restricted ourselves to disposable barbecues from Lidl, but they are a pain &ndash; too small and useless if there&#8217;s any wind at all. So recently I decided to invest in a proper Weber grill and chimney starter. Because of bad weather, we didn&#8217;t get a chance to try it out till now, but today Charlotte and I finally got it fired up. There was a bit of wind, so our first attempt at using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}