How To Light A Bbq

I'm going to show you how to light a barbecue. Now, if you just come here, a couple of really important things: you need the air to get through, so make sure these air vents are open, and make sure this grill's here. If it's not separated, if there isn't a gap between the air and the grill, you're going to have no chance at all.

Obviously, I've taken the top grill off. What I'm going to do now is just put bits of newspaper on the bottom. This is a completely natural barbecue.

You can get those little bags, but I'm telling you, this is the only way, I think, of doing it. So I'm now going to light the newspaper, and this is just going to form the very basic sort of firelighter. I don't like using firelighters, because they've got chemicals in them.

So I've some kindling here, and this was just from an old fruit box, so I'm going to place that just next to, or on the side of the newspaper. And you'll see the relevance of this later, but I'm only going to use half the barbecue, because you cook on one side, and rest on the other. And as soon as that starts catching, what we'll then do is start adding some coals to that.

Right, you've got a nice flame on that, so I'm going to start throwing the coals in there. Now, that barbecue's really beginning to catch and it's looking great. I know that people from the southern hemisphere will crucify me for saying this, but I've got a pump here, and this is going to blow air onto it, and really just gets those coals red hot, and then white hot, subsequently.

So just a quick blast, and we're away. Right. Now, if you come and have a look in here, the barbecue is, I mean, that's ready to cook on.

And that is how to light a charcoal barbecue. |A professional cooking instructor shows you an easy natural way to light a charcoal barbecue, without the use of lighter fluid or chemicals that might contaminate your food.