Summer is the perfect time for the rest and feasting outdoors. To make this pleasure perfect, many manufacturers produce special means with which you can perfectly cook food over an open fire. Meals are prepared in the fire, have a special, unique taste and a wonderful aroma. Beautiful evening spent in a circle of close friends, relatives or friends near the steaming barbecue or brazier.
Lovers of “smoky” food can pick up a variety of equipment for all occasions. For example, a small roaster is suitable for a picnic in the woods, on the nature and the barbecue-oven will delight not only delicious food, but also will help to draw garden area near the house or at the cottage more functionally. A whole arsenal of possibilities can be offered to a cook by garden fireplace, produced for individual designs.
Fixed outdoor fireplaces: chimneys, stoves and barbecues.
Garden fireplace perhaps is the most convenient “tool” for cooking “smoky” dishes. It is a reliable, easy-to-use, always “at hand”, and is a clear element of landscape design. Besides the choice of the latter is quite diverse, and you can easily choose the right model to suit your needs and opportunities.
Stationary models of fireplaces today are very popular around the world. They are concrete, stone and steel, can have shelves, lockers, cutting tables, washing machines and even a plate with an oven. Some stationary versions can replace the garden kitchen. Equipped a barbecue with an oven, a hob, a smokehouse, a sink, a variety of shelves and drawers, the developers turned narrow-functional kitchen device into the complex for the most demanding chefs.
Stationary barbecue. The feature of barbecue is that it does not accumulate the heat, and therefore it is suitable for rapid cooking of products that do not require an equal heating of the entire mass. But if you make a meat or fish dish, you’ll have to constantly flip it for all sides to be evenly roasted.
Barbecue fireplaces have chimneystack and firebox (generally of refractory bricks). The grate is installed on the ledges in the side walls of the furnace. Since the there is a short flue, a chimney draft depends on the wind. Most models have a brick back wall, which protects the structure from wind and provides thereby saving heat of the coals. If you wish, you can build a very original garden fireplace, for example, in the form of caves, mill or some fantastic character.
Companies from Mediterranean countries were the first to produce a heat-resistant concrete barbecue, capable of withstanding temperatures of over 1000 ° C. As a filler in the manufacture of the concrete pearlitic sand, expanded clay, fireclay dust, vermiculite can be used, while the binder may be portland cement, water glass, alumina cement, fireclay mass. Sometimes there are special additives that are improving the strength characteristics of the concrete. From the prepared mixture obtained monolithic concrete modules by vibromolding.