Five BBQ accessories for foodie freaks

So you love to BBQ. But there’s so much more than traditional burgers, sausages and cuts of meat and fish to barbie. Our BBQ accessories take outdoor cuisine to a new and exciting place. Here are five of the best to inspire you.

Quality BBQ accessories to make your mouth water

Grab any of these, or treat yourself to all five, and create even more awesome dishes to delight your guests. They can be used in a chimenea designed for cooking, on a regular BBQ, an outdoor oven or even your fire pit or firebowl, depending on the design.

A BBQ waffle iron – Totally yum

Love fresh, fragrant waffles? They’re great things. Add a sweet or savoury topping or just eat them hot from the BBQ smothered in salty butter. Yum. This top quality cast iron waffle iron comes with a long handle, making it extra-handy and easy to use. It’s great for using with your chimenea, fire pit, BBQ or on an open fire. All you do is lightly grease it for non-stick waffle cooking, add the batter, and cook to your heart’s content.

It’s sensible to give it a quick wash before using it, and after every use rub some oil into it to prevent rust. An edible oil like vegetable oil is fine. This cool gadget makes short work of every kind of waffle, so prepare your taste-buds for sheer pleasure!  

Steel chestnut roasting pan – The ultimate in comfort food

They keep your hands warm, and they warm your heart too. There’s nothing quite like the nutty flavour of roasted chestnuts, a festive treat you can enjoy at any time of year. In fact, just think nuts – any nuts – and you can roast them in this steel chestnut roasting pan. Just throw in some salt for extra flavour, or go extra-wicked with some chilli powder.

Wash it before using it for the first time then, to roast a chestnut, make a cut on the flat side of each nut to stop them bursting in the heat. Roast them ’til the skin starts to go black and you can see the yellow cooked flesh through your cuts. Then wait, if you can bear to, until they’re cool enough to eat.

The long handle and heatproof non-stick surface make it perfect for the job and it’s also ideal for cooking more or less any kind of foil-wrapped dish as well. Maybe a slice of fragrant, delicate fish or a seasoned chicken breast.

Five BBQ accessories – The perfect toasting fork

Toast. What would we do without it? It’s one of the simplest and most tasty snacks around, instant delish and a treat every time whether you’re into sourdough, fancy focaccia or normal sliced white. This steel toast fork does a proper job, being exceptional quality and built to last as well as designed for the job.

Having said that, you can also use it to toast perfect marshmallows, three at a time. Or get imaginative and stick a king prawn on each tine – they’ll be roasted in seconds. The same goes for cherry tomatoes. You get the picture…

Craft your own pizza masterpieces with this clay pizza stone

Home baked pizza is easy thanks to this traditional clay pizza stone, a full 30cm across so ideal for baking pizza inside a large or XL chimenea. It’s tough and hard-wearing and it provides evenly-cooked results in no time, every time. Just give it a dusting of flour so your pizza doesn’t stick, and you’re ready to go.

Here’s how it works. First, heat up the stone gradually, placing it inside the chimenea when you light the fire so they heat up together. Because the clay is slightly absorbent, clean it using plain, fresh water. There’s no need for cleaning chemicals – they’ll just get absorbed into the clay and make your pizzas taste funny. You’ll get food and grease stains on the clay but don’t worry, it’s all part of the pizza stone experience.

Designed to fit our XL and Jumbo size chimeneas, it’s best handled with gloves so you don’t get burned, and it’s best not to pick it up when it’s hot, obviously. Otherwise, go play and choose a fabulous pizza topping for us – we’ll be round your place in five minutes 😉

Cook up some fun with this brilliant cast iron swivel hot plate

This swivel hot plate is 30cm across, perfect for XL and Jumbo sized chimeneas. We also sell a slightly smaller 26cm version for smaller chimeneas. Use it to replace your existing swivel-out grill, as a frying pan if you like, or as a hotplate. It works equally well either way. It simply fits onto the swivel attachment of your chimenea – so check yours has one before buying.

Wash it before the first time you use it, like you do with any new cooking tool, then watch as it gets hotter and hotter, and stays that way. After using it, wash and dry it then rub on some oil – ordinary cooking oil will do – to help prevent rust. So what can you cook on it? Basically, anything that you can cook on a hotplate indoors. Very cool.

Five BBQ accessories – sorted!

That’s just five of our fab BBQ accessories. There are loads more to enhance your BBQ life, including BBQ tool sets, an excellent little burger press, charcoal racks and smoker boxes.