Mainly because cooking a T-bone or a Picanha, is considered “Grilling” even if done on a Kettle, Low and Slow or indirect cooking is BBQing.
But the term is so general, that it actually covers many cooking with fire and smoke tecniques, all defined as “Barbecue”
I put a picture of some tecniques that for some of us “meat smokers (or burners)” might be interesting to explore.
You’ll see that half, if not most of them, are actually grilling on a pit or a grill, with direct heat, or charcoal/stones in a pit,therefore to differentiate, instead of calling it Barbecue that’s too general, we define BBQ as the low and slow or indirect cooking in a closed kettle or smoker.
I must admit I thought the same when I saw this, figured it was just terminology. This man would be pissed if he turned up for a barbie and there was no steak. Might be acceptable if there were lamb chops on offer, not just a snag or two. Unless I went to Bunnings
Interesting! I had a Hangi for my 30th in the backyard but I would not have considered it a BBQ, I cooked different meat than what I would have on the barbie.
Yeah, I only called it a BBQ cos of you guy’s, Marshie knew what I meant …
I think, for us, the Barbie (BBQ) is more about the device than the style of cooking mate.
A plough plate over a 44 gallon drum with a fire in the bottom was a Barbie when I was growing up, none of this new fangled smoker BS back then here.
A grill was always something we have in our stove that “grills” using heat from above, a “low and slow” is an oven and a smoker was just that, a smoker.
The word barbecue comes from the language of a Caribbean Indian tribe called the Taino . Their word for grilling on a raised wooden grate is barbacoa.
But then, this is Australia… and we still don’t slip shrimp onto barbies contrary to popular (in the US) opinion.
When I was young, had a buddy who would grab creature’s that looked something like this, from the stream near his house, with his bare hand! Thought he was quite the daredevil back then!
My uncle taught us that when we were young much to the horror of our parents (and looking back ya it was pretty barbaric but Cane toads deserve no mercy)
Sounds funny @woftam …seeing that your entire country is surrounded by water! lol But, I know what you mean. Especially after seeing the 90 mile straight photo!
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Shattered perception’s, lol
