Barbecue Grill

“Throw another shrimp on the barbie” – Paul Hogan

Barbecue grills are generally large appliances used for cooking food outdoors, with direct or indirect heat, depending on its design.
Barbecue grills’ are also known as ‘barbeques’, ‘barbeque grills’, ‘barbecues’, ‘BBQs’ and ‘barbies’.
Barbecue grills have a heating source generally derived from gas, electricity, charcoal or wood.
The word ‘barbecue’ is believed to be derived from the Caribbean Taíno word ‘barbacòa’ or ‘barbakoa’, meaning ‘framework of sticks’.
Barbecue grills can cook almost anything, but are generally used to cook vegetables and meat, and are common in America and are particularly popular in Australia.

One of the first modern barbecue grills was invented by American George Stephan, a welder, in 1952, that used half a steel buoy attached to legs as the base, with a dome shaped lid, that famously became known as the ‘Weber’, or ‘Weber kettle’.
Barbecue grills typically have the shape of a rectangular prism, hemisphere or semicylinder, although they come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours.
Gas barbecue grills were invented in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and usually use bottled gas, and have now become one of the commonly available barbecues.
Barbecue grills typically consist of a heat source and a cooking grill or plate and depending on the type of barbecue and its design, it may also have a heat shield, temperature controls, hood or cover, rotisserie, racks, thermometer, trolley, wheels, cabinet, and so on.
The largest barbeque grill made, was for the Discovery Channel in 2004, measuring 4.7 metres (15.3 feet) in height, 6.2 metres (20.2 feet) in length and 2.4 metres (8 feet) in depth.

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