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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 06/15/18 > “Will Eat BBQ 4 U” Texas BBQ Review Vol.8, Spring Creek BBQ, Spring,Texas.
I always enjoy reading your BBQ reviews mr Papper, but now you've made me hungry, think we should have a braai (BBQ) tonight ;)
Ha Ha the revenge of the Papper , you should have a braai. When you do, what type of fire do you all use? Wood, charcoal or gas? Just curious on that, for me wood is the only way to go and we have a tree here that is called "mesquite" that is excellent for cooking and smoking.
We mostly use charcoal as here in the cities we have to buy wood which sometimes does not burn too well and you never know what wood it is either! Gas braais certainly is not a real braai, so we never use that but many South Africans do!
I've seen you talk about mesquite in your BBQ reviews, sure that would make a huge difference to the taste!
When we built our cottage years ago, we sadly had to remove a litchi tree as it was smack bang in the middle of where the cottage was built! That provided braai wood for quite a while and did give a better flavour to the meat!
Wood however is not as plentiful here in South Africa as in the States, we only have good choices in wood shavings when it comes to smoking meat or fish.
By the way, congratulations on your curie upvote, well deserved!
Well thank you for the congratulations, even the Curie folks have a hard time resisting good BBQ, they voted one of my other reviews a few months back as well.
Charcoal is a whole lot better than gas for sure, if you are going to cook with gas you may as well just cook it on the stove and save yourself the time and effort of grilling it.
I never have heard of a litchi tree so I will google that and see what I can find. Our mesquite trees are more like over grown scrub bushes but the trees that do make it to a good size are very desirable for their wood not only for cooking but for making real fine furniture. The wood has a lighter white outer portion and a darker rich color heart wood in the center, really makes for some nice tables, desks and chairs: very pricey though, no furniture maker mass produces any mesquite wood furniture products because finding suitable wood stock is a real challenge.
Well now I'm curious about the mesquite wooden furniture, will google that for sure, thank you!
Totally agree regarding gas cooking, may as well cook inside on the stove!
Litchis are the most delicious fruit ever, we were so sad to see our tree go!