How to Winterise Your Outdoor Cooking Setup
The end of October is the right moment for this, and it is worth doing now rather than in December. Not because the cooking season is over, plenty of people use a masonry barbecue
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Bonfire Night in Your Garden: A Host’s Guide
Bonfire Night falls on Thursday 5 November this year, which means most people will actually mark it on the weekend either side. That is useful, because a Saturday gives you dayligh
Fire Pit Safety: Siting, Surfaces and Sparks
Fire pit accidents are almost never dramatic. They are scorched decking, a melted section of artificial grass, a fence panel that took a spark on a windy night, and most commonly o
Do You Need Planning Permission for a Fire Pit or Masonry BBQ?
This question comes up most often just after someone has decided what they want and just before they spend the money, which is exactly the right time to ask it. The short answer fo
Best Wood-Fired Pizza Ovens for UK Gardens
Most wood-fired pizza oven coverage in Britain is about small portable ovens, because that is what sells in volume. If you want one of those, plenty of people have written about th
Masonry Barbecue vs Fire Pit: Which Suits Your Garden?
These two get shortlisted together constantly, usually by someone with a few hundred pounds and a patio they want to get more out of. It is a reasonable pairing, because both are a
Which Pizza Oven Is Best for Entertaining?
Pizza is the best food to cook for a crowd and the easiest to get wrong when there is a crowd watching. The oven that makes a superb pizza for two is often the oven that makes twel
The Buschbeck Masonry Barbecue Range Explained
A masonry barbecue is the least fashionable and most durable thing in outdoor cooking. It does not fold away, it does not come in a box you can carry, and nobody takes one to the b
Fire Pit Buying Guide for UK Gardens
Fire pits have stopped being a summer purchase. The ones that get used most are bought in autumn, because that is when the reason for owning one becomes obvious: the evenings are c
How to Cook on a Masonry Barbecue: Charcoal, Wood and Gas
A masonry barbecue is the most capable outdoor cooking appliance most people will ever own, and it is routinely used at about a third of what it can do. That is because it arrives