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 BeefEater 101 >
Operating Your BBQ >
BEFORE YOU START
Before You Start...
The Best Location for your Barbecue
Where you put your barbecue can affect performance, as well as
being a safety issue. Here are the basic rules and guidelines. |
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Your BeefEater gas BBQ is manufactured and approved for outdoor
use only.
Never operate the barbecue inside your home, garage,
recreational vehicle, or any enclosed area.
- Select an outdoor location safely away from any flammable or
combustible materials and in a position where passers by are
unlikely to be burnt, or meet with an accident. Keep the
barbecue a minimum of 45 cms (18") from any combustible
material.
- Position the barbecue out of any direct wind which
could affect combustion. This especially applies to the side
burner.
- Position the barbecue on a level surface. This applies to
both mobile and built in units.
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First Time Use - Curing The Cast Iron
The cooking surface should be "cured" before being used for the
first time to remove oils and other contaminants left over from
manufacturing. It will also help minimize rust and sticking.
This section tells you how. |
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Your BeefEater BBQ will feature either one of the following cooking surfaces: Porcelain coated cast iron. Here you only need to wash thoroughly with a mild dishwashing liquid and coat the entire surface with a fine layer of cooking oil before you commence cooking. Non-porcelain coated cast iron.
Follow the 8 steps below:
- Remove the cast iron cooking surfaces from the BBQ and thoroughly wash them with mild dishwashing liquid. Dry immediately. Do not allow them to drain-dry.
- Coat the entire surface, top and bottom with a generous layer of solid vegetable oil. Do not use salted fats, such as butter or margarine.
- Place the grates back into the BBQ and light all burners. If your BBQ has a roasting hood, close the hood and turn a maximum of 2 burners onto "Medium" until a medium heat is attained (approximately 195C or 385°F). If you have a two burner BeefEater with hood, then turn both burners on to "Low". You can also place the grates into a conventional gas or electric oven to complete this part of the curing process.
- After 30 minutes, turn all burners off and allow the BBQ to completely cool.
- After the cast iron surfaces have fully cooled, remove them from the BBQ and re-coat with vegetable oil. The curing process is now complete and the surfaces are seasoned and ready for use.
- To prevent rust, the above seasoning or curing process should be repeated frequently.
- If rust does occur, then clean with a wire brush and repeat the seasoning process. If your BBQ is positioned near water, or in a marine environment, then the seasoning process may need to be repeated more frequently.
- If you are using volcanic rock (optional), you may find that some of the rock may splinter or crack on this initial firing. However, this should not happen on subsequent uses.
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Line The Grease Tray |
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The last step you must take before using your BeefEater for the first time is to line the drip tray with foil and fill the tray with a thin layer of sand or some other non- combustible, absorbent material. Because the fat and grease from cooking is caught by the tray, it is very important to change the foil and the sand (or other non-combustible, absorbent material) regularly.
Simply line the tray so that it covers the whole base of the tray, fill with a thin layer of sand and replace back into the BBQ.
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