Types of Barbecues

The centerpiece of any good barbecue is the barbecue itself. You can purchase portable barbecues in many different department stores and outdoor stores. Some barbecues come with dome shaped tops that can turn the barbecue into a type of oven to speed up the cooking process.
Some come with a type of lever to raise or lower the grill in relation to the carbon. In practice a faster cooking time or slower cooking time is obtained by either spreading out or concentrating the lit carbon.

A fixed barbecue made of either cement or brick should have a space of about fifteen to twenty centimeters between the part where the wood or carbon will be and the grill where the meat will be. There are multiple varieties of grills, with most falling into one of two categories: gas-fueled and charcoal. There is a great debate over the merits of charcoal or gas for use as the cooking method between grillers.

Gas-fueled grills typically use propane (LP) or natural gas (NG) as their fuel source, with gas-flame either cooking food directly or heating grilling elements which in turn radiate the heat necessary to cook food. Gas grills are available in sizes ranging from small, single steak grills up to large, industrial sized restaurant grills which are able to cook enough meat to feed a hundred or more people. Gas grills are designed for either LP or NG, although it is possible to convert a grill from one gas source to another.

Charcoal grills typically use charcoal briquets as their fuel source. The briquets, when burned, will transform into embers radiating the heat necessary to cook food. The stereotypical American charcoal grill is a hollow, metal hemisphere with three legs and a small metal disc to catch ash, with a lower grate to hold the charcoal and an upper grate to hold the food to be cooked. Grilling is a pervasive tradition in the United States. There are many cook-offs for steak grilling and barbecue around the United States with serious cash prizes involved in most. Almost all competition grillers use charcoal, most often in large, custom designed brick or steel grills. They can range from a few 55 gallon oil drums sawed lengthwise on their sides to make a lid and grill base, to large, vehicle sized grills made of brick, weighing nearly a ton.

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