Don’t Cook The Trees – Barbecue Safety

Les Brand

My first experience of a barbecue was as a seventeen year old at a friend'shouse. His farther, Douglas, was an expert at barbecuing, with many yearsexperience, we thought! It was a hot summers day but with a light breeze, so Douglas, with all that experience, decided to erect a cardboard frame about one foot high around three sides of the barbecue. The barbecue grill itself, which was fuelled with charcoal, was positioned next to, and underneath, some trees in the back garden. Not having seen a barbecue being lit before I was keen to watch, and moved in closer. Douglas placed the firelighters in the grate, set fire to them and arranged the charcoal in a pyramid over them.

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